Over the past several days, I have had the pleasure of communicating by phone and email with David Knight, Executive Producer of COPD: The Logical Way to Improve Lung Function and Breathe Better, a documentary film designed to increase awareness of COPD …

My wife has reached a point that the mere thought of me leaving the house and being alone heightens her anxiety level. It’s starting to make me feel as if I’m in a cage and the bad guy when I insist she will be fine while I’m away. She has some …

Hi, I am an otherwise fit 53 year old male and have just been diagnosed with COPD. I stopped smoking 8 or 9 years ago. but this year noticed trouble breathing on occasion. Spirometry had me down as mild obstruction after inhaler. FEV 63% i think. No info …

I’ve gone around and around with my pulmonologist for over a year, with them being wishy washy about whether I might have COPD or asthma. Can anyone give me any insight? Here are the main numbers from my latest PFT. My new doc thinks it’s asthma, but I …

I think that for all we go thru daily as COPD patients we should all laugh and enjoy ourselves Every day Do you all agree?? Share a humorous story it will make you feel good Kenny A

What are some tips for controlling any drug side effects should they occur? What do you do? In my case, I take trillegy elipta. I wake now with light lower leg cramps each morning. They go away once I'm walking around, but I wonder how this plays out in …

Beezer - The Simply Go and Zen-o POCs are both continuous (up to 2 liters) and pulse, and each weighs about 10 lbs. I believe these are the lightest POCs at this time. I've used the Simply Go, and it works great, though the design of it made it a …

I had a pulmonary function test (PFT) this morning as a double check of a recent in-office spirometery test using a handheld device that surprisingly cleared me of having COPD (I went from FEV1 and FV1/FVC in the high 70 percent range on my original PFT …

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My husband had is first aspiration and hospital stay.I hear some say it takes up to 3 months to fully recover. Some are saying you do fully recover and others say you don't. Any one know?

My Dr told me i was a cantidate for lung transplant . done some research and the survival odds to me dont seem.the greatest. Would like some opinions on this. Thanks

does anyone know why the stomach would be full , extended for weeks , with copd? my mothers stomach is in pain and extended. no problem with bowel movement.

I am newly diagnosed with COPD and must use oxygen to sleep and fly and over 5000' (well, it turns out I need it over 3500'). I do fine on the continuous O2 at home but when we travel with my Inogen pulse it goes "whoosh, whoosh" in my nose and in my …

I have had 3 pneumothorax and my doctor wanted me to look into this procedure as well as physical pleurodesis. My instincts are telling me that I should not do this, but then who's instincts eve told them to go get surgery?

I am being treated for a flare up but I notice that my SpO2 drops as much as 3 to 4 % when I talk - even just a couple of sentences. I am on oxygen now and it is still happening. Is this caused by something else that I might not be aware of? I am 4D. …

has anyone experienced this. Even mild aerobic exercise will send my O2 sats to the basement. A slow walk on the treadmill and a little increase on oxygen o2 sat will still dip to borderline. I started at 2mph and had to back it down to 1.6 mph to stay …

Despite having severe emphysema and making more than a few visits to his office at UCSD I have never seen “my” pulmonologist. Instead I have seen his very competent and knowledgeable nurse practitioner. The only difficulty is that sometimes a dr’s …

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is anyone else being treated for copd at their VA facility? I was diagnosed over four years ago and my VA doc gave me Albuterol inhaler, Symbicort and Spiriva. I didn’t see a big difference. Then as my doc retired my new doctor added a home nebulizer …

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This is for someone I knew who passed away but it wasnt known how. If someone with emphysema who's on 24x7 2-3 liters oxygen takes off their oxygen to do house work etc. Could that result in their death? (patient found without oxygen mask on floor)

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I was wondering how does it look like at the end? More specifically, how does a patient with severe emphysema die? What causes the death? I searched online but found nothing. Online everywhere it said that respiratory failure is triggered by something …

Hello all, We are selling an Inogen One G3 portable oxygen concentrator, batteries (16 cell and 8 cell power packs of which we have 3 of them), the carrying case, the car and wall charger. This was purchased in October 2015 and is in excellent condition …