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What’s Your Trick For Enjoying Holiday Treats And Staying On Track? 🎃

By A MyCOPDTeam Member 25 answers

Are You Frustrated With Finding Effective Treatments For COPD?

By A MyCOPDTeam Member 82 answers

Do You Follow A Specific Diet To Help With COPD?

By A MyCOPDTeam Member 69 answers

What's On Your Holiday Wish List That Could Improve Your Life With COPD?

By A MyCOPDTeam Member 55 answers
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I'm Scared 😱 Of Suffering Like I'm Drowning When I Get Ready To Pass. My Address Is 417 Masontown Rd Lot 1 Newport NC 28570 😪 Suffering

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
Newport, NC

Happy stuff anything. I nothing for my birthday or Christmas 🎄. It's been 2 years since I've been able to get anything of shopping. I'm stage 3 lung cancer and mac 🫁. Love you all thanks for expressing my feelings ♥️ My address is 417 masontown rd lot 1 Newport NC 28570I can't qualify for nothing

A MyCOPDTeam Member

Agree, with ConnieFriona, Billbeth. Please talk with your Dr. about this. So sorry for your suffering..... praying for you, that you may find some peace.

December 17, 2023

Does Anyone Get Dizziness As One Of There Symptoms And Tiredness.

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
A MyCOPDTeam Member

I have alot of dizziness. But alot of it is because I have the COPD and GERD which both cause dizziness and chest pain

December 31, 2023

Copd

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Norfolk, England

What are the various stages of COPD

A MyCOPDTeam Member

It's not a problem @A MyCOPDTeam Member. I just had to tease you a little because that's the kind of mood I was in.😁

December 10, 2023

Stages Of COPD

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
Norfolk, England

Pushing The Goverment Fo The Cure

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
Calhoun Falls, SC

this site is helpful in aspects of people lives with copd from coping to exercising and every day living ..and support. however it is a lot we can do to make life better , but it is still not a cure. i think this site . and team should be pushing the government to speed up research efforts on finding a cure . until they are pushed they gonna lag behind because most copd cases are brought on by our previous life styles . look how far they have come on hiv and covid . very… read more

A MyCOPDTeam Member

A cure sounds wonderful but would it really be possible to find a "cure" for lungs damaged by 20, 30 or 50 years of deterioration and hardening?

December 9, 2023 (edited)

Any Tips For Waking Up In The AM Or After A Nap? Takes A While To Feel Decent And Move It Up

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
South Bend, IN
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Happens to me intentionally. I just drink so.e water and rock awhile in my recli er

December 31, 2023

Up All Night

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
Atlanta, GA

Have you ever tried to stay up all night because ‘breathing like this’ made you wonder if you would ever open your eyes again? That’s called a bad night. Unless, of course, you’ve got Willie with you.
https://youtu.be/oRzfhbOH4E8?si=ld9Vd4a6iNELJOjy

A MyCOPDTeam Member

all the time, lack of sleep carbon builds up, you don't want that

December 16, 2023

Has Anybody Tried The New Wonder Inhaler Called Breztri

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
GLENMORE PARK - NSW Australia

I went to see my lung specialist and he put me on a new puffer called Bretri Its being touted as the new wonder puffer for COPD .Its a triple action puffer Part 1 Ventolin part 2 atrovent part 3 cortisidle stroids Prendisone you have to take 2 to 3 puffs morning and night and wash your mouth out to stop getting mouth thrush google BREztri and read the atricles on the test results lookking very promising they are very expensive over the conter here in ustralia they retail for$82.00 each we are… read more

A MyCOPDTeam Member

Kenkarr, I know. $1700.00 for months. Thank heaven for Medicare (advantage) and Medicaid. The two cover the cost.

February 15

Has Anyone Had The Problem Of Their Inogen G5 Not Pulsing The Dose Of 02 When It Should?

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
Manteca, CA

Two new ones in the last couple of months and both are the same. I will call and talk with their tech person and see what they say and I don't want it replaced I just want it to work right. I have changed the filters and tried 2 different cannulas but it doesn't help.
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A MyCOPDTeam Member

They pulse according to your breathing does it beep because it does not feel you breathing through nose. Only time my doesn't is because I catch myself not breathing through nose. Never was a nose… read more

January 12

Does Anyone Have Problems When Out,and Start To Get Short Of Breath And Need To Run To A Toilet And If No Toilet Start To Panic

A MyCOPDTeam Member asked a question 💭
Craster.Northumberland
A MyCOPDTeam Member

Yes, that’s exactly what happens to me!!!!

January 2
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