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How To Support Someone With COPD

What are ways you could be better supported while having COPD?

  1. For myself, it would be so helpful to have someone to come in to change bedding, dust, do floors and help organize. Maybe one room every couple of weeks. When I do these tasks, I’m always down for a couple of days after. Even wearing a mask, I cough more and there is so much pain in my back as well. I don’t feel like I ever get anything done.
    How about you? Please share!
    Janet (Team)

    1. Me, too.

      1. Knowing the actual results of test.

        1. Sometimes when I tell my Dr my symptoms she looks at me like I’m speaking a foreign language

        2. Wow, that's disappointing! Is your doctor a pulmonologist? It may be worth seeking out a new doctor or a second opinion, if you can. You deserve to be understood! - Melissa, team member

      2. Breathing

        1. Hi . Do you feel like your doctor could do more to help you breathe more comfortably or efficiently? - Lori (Team Member)

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