Which inhaler DMcG? Thelast year or so our doctor has moved over from Ventolin to one called Becotide and another called Salbutanol. It might be a good idea for DMcG to hunt around on the net and see if there's any stuff about other people having these problems.

Doctors don't always like being second guessed by patients, but it's your body. Checking with the books and saying "It's not a recognised side effect" is a pretty strange way to do it - if everyone did that, no side effects would ever be turned up. If something like that looks like an unreported side-effect seems to be present, following a change in medicament, the right thing for a doctor to do is to report it and probably go back on the previous medicine if possible to see what happens then.

Here's a link to NHS Online - and that's got links to other useful people, including the National Asthma Campaign.