How compliant are you with your asthma medication regimen? Depending on where you look, noncompliance with asthma regimens ranges from 10-46%. According to Katie M Buston and Stuart F Wood of the MRC Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in Glasgow, Scotland, patients commonly cite the following as reasons for non-compliance:

• forgetfulness
• belief that asthma medication is ineffective
• denial that one is an asthmatic
• difficulty using asthma inhalers
• inconvenience
• fear of medication side effects
• embarrassment and laziness

So how compliant are you? What makes it difficult for you to take your medication as prescribed? Is it one thing or a whole series of events? What do you do that helps you take your medications and get control of your asthma?

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