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Are You Frustrated With Finding Effective Treatments For COPD?

By A MyCOPDTeam Member 82 answers

Does Anyone Get B12 Shots, And What Are The Alternatives If Your Doctor Refuses To Give Them To You? Don't See What They Could Hurt.

By A MyCOPDTeam Member 54 answers

Okay, How Many Minutes Does Your Nebulizer Run When Using A Standard 3ml Plastic Vial Of Whatever Liquid Is Prescribed For You?

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Do You Follow A Specific Diet To Help With COPD?

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Has Anyone Heard From MaryCrabtree? When I Type In Her Name All I Get Are Posts Addressed To @ATeamMember. Very Strange. Please Let Me Kn

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Fond Du Lac, WI
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Good Sunday morning @A MyCOPDTeam Member. Life certainly is being good to me and i can hope the same for you
Our weather hasn't been terrible, in fact it's been pretty darn good compared to some… read more

October 20

Does Anyone Experience Brusing. I Have Significant Brusing And Skin Tears A Result Of Long Term Use Of Inhalerd Stroids Im Told? Anyone Else

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Bonita Springs, FL

anyone with ideas of how to stop or improve the brusing?

A MyCOPDTeam Member

I bruise easily from low platelets. I have ITP. A CBC lab will show low platelets if you have it.

August 14

How Do You Cope With Depression If You Live Alone And Can’t Get Out?

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Cumbria
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Vitamin B-1 and Folic acid works for me, they help with my memory also.

July 31

Was Wondering If There Is Any New Inhalers On The Market?

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Willowbrook, IL
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Thank you Rolland0 for the info. Appreciate it!

July 27

Has Anyone Lost Sense Of Smell, Taste And Appetite? I Am Finding It So Difficult To Eat I've Lost 2 Stone And Am Now Only 6 Stone.

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Great Britain
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Tha k you all. Doc useless,no ideas and no referral or anything.

July 30

Does Anyone Have Suggestions For Dealing With Kinks Forming In Their Long Concentrator Tubes When They Get Snarled Up?

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Leduc, AB
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Thanks..I'll check it out!

July 20

What Medications Are Members Using Successfully, Nothing I've Tried Relieves The Congestion Or Breathlessness. Brezstri,Trelegy Don't Work

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My doctor says COPD Stage 3, emphysema and chronic bronchitis

A MyCOPDTeam Member

Trelegy Ellipta

July 24

Has Anyone On Here Had A Lung Transplant Or Have Any Info On Them?

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Pottsboro, TX
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Thank you for that link, @A MyCOPDTeam Member - I will absolutely check it out.

Happy Sunday, 28-JUL-24

July 28

Has Anyone Else Ever Had Their Pulmonologist Tell Them How Long They Thought You Had Left? Mine Did Yesterday And I Sure Didn’t Like It…..

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Pottsboro, TX
A MyCOPDTeam Member

I would take it as a wake up call to improve my self care.

August 14

I Seem To Have A Lot Of Gas. Is This A Symptom Of COPD ?have Others Experienced This Symptom? Thanks

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BARBADOS
A MyCOPDTeam Member

There’s more room outside for it - ain’t no point in tryna hold it in n hurting oneself - later for embarrassment ( tho still eeek)

July 22
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