re hismanal et al side effects in article apr spdcc com dyer spdcc com steve dyer writes in article apr lrc edu kjiv lrc edu writes can someone tell me whether or not any of the following medications has been linked to rapid excessive weight gain and or a distorted sense of taste or smell hismanal azmacort a topical steroid to prevent asthma vancenase hismanal astemizole is most definitely linked to weight gain it really is peculiar that some antihistamines have this effect and even more so an antihistamine like astemizole which purportedly doesn t cross the blood brain barrier and so tends not to cause drowsiness it also gave me lots of problems with joint and muscle pain seemed to trigger arthritis like problems sue steve dyer dyer ursa major spdcc com aka ima harvard rayssd linus m c spdcc dyer
