It's going to make you shaky. But it's going to help you breathe. And we sort of imply that that's the price of breathing, and when that's the best you can do, it sort of is the price of breathing. But when new drugs that come out that have a better threshold for not producing problems, we have to sort of go back and reevaluate that. And what most commonly patients do when they're having difficulty with shaking and with the side effects of a drug like albuterol is just reduce the dose, so oftentimes what we prescribe and what people take is not exactly the same thing.
Old people do that all the time, and even parents do it with children sometimes.
And, of course, when people reduce the dose, they reduce the effect, and you have to use it more often, and doctors oftentimes react to that by using stronger and stronger medicines. We're not going to accept not being able to go back to sleep at night as a normal course of events. Managing asthma Click here to read the full-length interview with Dr. Bobby Lanier.