Significantly increased breathing probs: Mefenamic Acid

1. Guest 17 July 2008 at 11:32AM
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   I was prescribed this drug for pain management and to control severe period bleeding. It was excellent at that but it seriously agrevated my asthma and had a negative impact on my breathing. It does refer to this in the contra-indications but its important that people realise this is a potential side effect if you are asthmatic as the GP didn't mention it to me so that I was 'watching' for this potential consequence (despite knowing of my asthma) when prescribing it. I've had to stop taking it which is a pity because it is so good at pain and bleeding management, but it can severly affect your breathing particularly if you have existing problems in this area.

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2. Guest 23 June 2010 at 20:21PM

   I had this kind of problem too, i only have an inhaler for when doing sports but the first time i started taking them i went into a mini almost ashtma attack and i couldn't breath for about 10 minutes and had to use my inhaler, but even still after it gave my breath back i had a strange pain across my stomach and i couldn't stand up

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