Are epinephrine inhalers sold anywhere in the world?

Factual Questions
1

I have asthma and am on maintenance medications, but occasionally I have a severe attack that only responds to epinephrine inhaler(Primatene Mist) and when I tried to get by without it I actually had an attack so bad I passed out and only came to when injected with epinephrine in the ER and put on nebulizer. This was after an ambulance couldn’t come in time.

I learned my lesson from that and have a stockpile of Primatene Mist that will last years and years.

But Primatene has been removed from the market, possibly not to return so that stockpile is it.

Are epinephrine inhalers sold anywhere else in the world? OTC or RX?

2

Try on line. Google “epinephrine inhaler” and see what the shopping links provide. Some are just clearing out Primatene back inventory, but there are other versions available with a nebulizer. I don’t see any with a inhaler. The FDA’s stance on why they’ve prohibited the making or sale of OTC epinephrine.

3

what would happen if you squirted an epipen into your throat?

4

I can’t really answer your question, just popping in to note that epinephrine inhalers can and do expire. Attempts to use one perhaps about a year out of date caused me some amount of terribly uncomfortable, if temporary, chest pain and headaches/dizziness. You may wish to be careful as that stockpile ages.

(Thankfully HFA Albuterol seems to work just fine for me, I was just too lazy to go to the doctor. And too cheap; prescription inhalers seemed to triple or quadruple in price after the HFA transition. Irritating.)

5

[QUOTE=The FDA website]
There is currently no over-the-counter or prescription epinephrine inhaler made without CFCs.
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I’m an asthmatic who has never taken epinephrine, but I have to ask, how did this situation happen? Wikipediadescribes the case, but doesn’t explain why Armstrong or Amphastar Pharmaceuticals (or one of their competitors) didn’t prepare for the CFC ban back in 2008. (Though naturally they’re working on one now.)