Hello everyone, so happy l found this site, lm 53 years old and was a carer for the last 9 years for my mother, and for the last couple of years found myself short of breath when doing any kind of hard work like mowing the lawns and just put it down to getting older, but having returned to to work as a storeman in a warehouse which is very dusty found myself with a chest infection, l had a scan and a spirometry which came back with 48% lung capacity and my doctor diagnosed l have stage 3 copd/emphysema, would just these 2 test be enough to give this diagnosis, this doctor is new to me, it all seems very serious and sudden to me,