Thanks for your reply.
I like the choice of meds you picked too. Asthma is a multi-faceted disease process and should be addressed as such.
From what I've seen, some HCP's are reluctant to use the proper prophylactic meds with patients in the first place, leaving their patients to experience the exacerbations you are left to treat.
They also allow asthma medicine "holidays" where they take their patients off of their meds in order to give them a break from the routine. My daughter is an asthma (mild persistent type) patient who stays on her meds 365 days a year. She does not use rescue meds more than twice a week. She is a member of the cross-country team at school and does well.
Doc