Hello Mark 72, I am 42 years old and diagnosed with COPD in February of this year. I have a FEV of 68. I can do all the activities without great difficulty, I only feel SOB when I exercise fast or I quickly climb a ladder. Moreover, following the …

Hi there, I registered for this site because im feeling confused. I have been experiencing PVC's. Holter monitor showed but EKG, and ECHO are normal. My heart and lung Dr gave me a diagnosis of COPD, but I didnt have any testing except an overnight …

Good afternoon, I started a new job a few months ago. We manufacture Headliners for automobiles. The material that is used and cut is a polyurethane foam. I have had severe attacks at work and suffered breathing and coughing problems since I started. I …

I am a 57 year old woman, who has got stage 4 severe COPD and emphysema, I was diagnosed about three years ago. i was a smoker for many years, and just finally gave them up about ten years ago, but not soon enough, the damaged was already done. I went …

should you have difficulty breathing if you have been diagnosed with Mild COPD?

This wiki article has an overview on COPD. Refers to emphysema and chronic bronchitis as older terms and gives some info on that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_obstructive_... This articleseems very helpful in understanding COPD. I started …

As Mark S said, have your GP get you a referral for a pulmonologist, they are better able to handle this disease. Until then follow the doctors instructions and take it easy. I am not real sure about small collapses so I won't venture a guess. I would …

I'm just turning 65 and signed up for Medicare with a supplement. I require O2 24/7. My insurance supplement says if Medicare pays, we pay. Let's say I want a POC from Inogen and they except Medicare. So Medicare pays 80% and my supplement pays the other …

My pulmo did ask me my sequences in taking my meds from neb to the end with spiriva. He smiled and so I must been doing ok.

Don't really know how to say this but here goes. My Pulmonologist is through a lung center and now they are in with these comprehensive cancer centers. My Pulmo said they are doing a study for severe COPD patients and I can get a CT scan and all the X …

How do some of you guys that need more than 5LPM fly. I'm on 4 LPM at home and my O2 provider set me up with a stationary concentrator that's capable of 5LPM. Then for going out they gave me some "D" and little m-6 tanks that the home concentrator can …

I understand, that's the easy part. The part I am concerned with is the piece of tubing between the " T's". Continuing the supply line into each room will require pieces of tubing to be cut, so you will have it where you want it in that particular room. …

I know there are a lot of us out there that has a hard time dealing with oxygen, so I thought of a little thing that might help to go along with it, a little humor. I found if you can find a way to deal with it, it takes the hurt off a little, and even a …

Just curious. I looked under "staff and volunteers", but cannot figure out who is a volunteer. Is it a secret? In which case, just answer with a wink. ;)

Yes Pulmo rehab is a good thing and has helped me a lot. It's a bit expensive with or without insurance so you would tend to think that not only would they have the proper apparatus to exercise on but enough oxygen concentrators as well. Oh I'm sorry sir …

Wild stuff always happens to me. Last Sat. on the morning news they said Berne Sanders will be a Bonanza high school to speak at 12:30. It was about about 9:00am and my wife asked if I was up to going. I knew it would be a lot of walking from parking to …

Hack, I think you are in a "gray" area here. Most doctors and therapists suggest continuous flow for sleeping as one breathes shallow while sleeping and may not trigger a pulse machine. On the other hand more of the pulse machines have a sleep setting …

Until I get on Medicare I can't afford the price for Symbicort and Spiriva in the USA so I'm getting them from Canada at a price I can afford. The dosage and ingredients are the same as the USA but the inhalers are different and I'm not sure if I'm doing …

Moderate to Vigorous activity increases your chance of living by 47% so study says.HealthDay News - See more at: https://www.copdfoundation.org/COPD360social/Commu... In other words you need to feel that you are working. Everyone has given you good …

Hi Hack, I have 2 people who frequent my jewelry counter who are on oxygen.  One of them is the daughter of the first "student teacher" that I mentored 30 plus years ago.  I like Ben try to treat them as normal people.  I had a cousin who had spastic …

The NFL playoff game at mile high Denver, CO showed a player receiving some oxygen. He had this clear plastic bag hanging under his mouth. Does anyone know what that is for? Is the O2 in that little bag? Why don't they just give him a cannula or a mask. …

I'm new to the forum and just had a question about my mothers lung function test. I am aware she either has "severe" COPD or "very severe" but i can't tell which one by her test results. I am having a hard time understanding what these numbers mean so i …

On another forum I found this statement made by someone with COPD. "I have found over the years .... to not give into getting on oxygen unless you 200% need it.. It limits your life, you become way too dependent on it. I believe such opinions and …

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Today while walking I felt like I couldn't get air in even with my 02. I have been SOB but this felt different, like I couldn't get a deep breath. Just curious if any of you had this happen and is it SOB? I will ask my dr about it. Was kind of scary. …