I was only diagnosed with COPD a little over a week ago. I have been coughing ike crazy for over a year and the mucous slowly built up. I had a very distressing incident a year and a half ago, and thought my fatigue and other symptoms were because what happened had put me into such a depression. As for the coughing, we had just moved from Colorado to Kentucky and I thought i had an allergy to Kentucky allergens. When I checked my O2 level and it was 87 I went to the doctor.
There's other stuff too, but I am now diagnosed. No idea what stage, The meds have already helped with the symptoms.
What is mainly worrying me is that after the doctor read my x-rays she said I need to have a CT scan. Is that standard? I asked her if from the x-rays she suspected lung cancer as well because of the x-ray. She said that she was not a radiologist and she didn't see any definitive growths.
Her name is Mary Music and she lives up to her name. She is sweet, funny and always makes me smile. but when I was questioning her, her demeanor seemed cold, like she was holding back.
COPD is hard, but for reasons I might get into in another post, lung cancer diagnosis will emotionally be a hundred times worse.
I'm really scared.