Im on the purple one... Seretide, as well as the Ventolin/Salbultamol blue one.
The idea is that if you take your brown one regularly, you should not need the blue one and the blue one is only "Just in case".
Doesnt work like that though does it?
I mean, 3 weeks ago I had a flu, took me nearly 2 weeks to get over it, I then caught a cold ( NO WAY!!! - NOT FAIR ) and this never let my chest get any better and so I developed a chest infection ( Still got it ) and now I have an ear infection too ( FFS ).
Now, during all of this, my purple inhalers dont seem to do bugger all and so I am going through the blue one like hell... Its barely lasting me a week and I have had it redone 3 times this month, and I was refused the last time until I saw the asthma nurse and so I saw her, but she moaned like hell about me not using the purple one properly??
How ****** dare she?
Sure, I know she has the qualifications etc to be a specialist nure, Iwill get her that much courtesy, but unless she suffers from asthma and unless she has to go through trying to breathe throug ha straw and not being able to talk because you cannot breathe propery, then she does not have a clue waht its like.
Christ on a bike, she made me want to just strangle her, the dozy cow.
Anyway, needless to say I scored only between 80 and 90 on my 3 blows which I usually score around 400 and at best I have had 470 ish so that showed I was struggling.
She gave me the inhalers anyway but not after a lengthy lecture on overuse of it etc...
I kept tryign to tell her that its only while I have had the flu but she was stuck so far up her own arse that I dont think she heard any of it.
But anyway, Im digressing...
I have both a blue and a purple inhaler in my car, in the house in the drugs cabinet, again both colours and I also carry a spare blue with me just in case, but I dont carry the purple.