What are These EMPHYSEMA TERM’s DEFINITIONS? | HITE1955 With: ‘ DOUG’ INOGEN ONE G5 | IO - 500
Less EMPHYSEMA
1: ✅ * MORE METABOLIC CO - MORBIDITIES
2: ⁉️ * Cardiac Compromise
3: ⁉️ * Less Hyperinflation
4: ❌ * More Chronic Bronchitis
5: ⁉️ * Increased EXACERBATIONS
6: ⁉️ * More Normal Diffusion Capacity
7: ⁉️ * Higher Serum Levels of Inflammatory
Markers ( IL - 6 and CRP )
SYMPTOMS
8: ❌ * Chronic * Productive Cough
9: ❌ * PURULENT SPUTUM
10 : ⁉️ * Hemoptysis
11:❌ * MILD DYSPHASIA Initially
12: ❌ * Cyanosis, ( Due to Hypoxemia )
13: ✅ * PROLONGED EXPIRATION
COMPLICATIONS
14: * Secondary Polycythemia Vera Due to Hypoxemia
15: * Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Reactive Vasoconstriction from Hypoxemia
17: * Car Pumonale from Chronic Pulmonary Hypertension
❤️🫁 MORE EMPHYSEMA 🫁❤️
1: ⁉️ * Fewer Cardiovascular Co -morbidities
2: ⁉️* Fewer Metabolic Co - Morbidities
3: ✅ * HYPERINFLATION
4: ⁉️ * Low Diffusion Capacity for CO
5: ✅ * MORE DYSPNOEA
6: ✅ * DECREASED EXERCISE CAPACITY
7✅ * WORST HEALTH STATUS
8:⁉️ *Lower Serum Levels of sRAGEs
SYMPTOMS
11: ✅ * DYSPNEA
12: ✅ * MIINIMAL COUGH
13: ✅ * INCREASED MINUTE VENTILATION
14: ✅ * PINK SKIN , PURSED - LIP BREATHING
15: ❌ * Accessory Muscle Use
16: ⁉️ * Cachexia
17: ✅ * HYPERINFLATION, BARREL CHEST
18: ✅ * DECREASED BREATH SOUNDS
19: ⁉️ * Tachypnea
COMPLICATIONS
20: ❤️🫁 * PNEUMOTHORAX Dur to BULLAE
21: ❤️🫁 * WEIGHT LOSS Due to WORK of BREATHING
thanks for taking the time to write all of these out! Have you had the chance to speak with your doctor or medical team about these? They would be in the best position to discuss them with you and how they may impact your personal medical journey. What do you think? All the best, Sam S. (COPD.net, team member). Not Yet, but I will FEBRUARY 24, 2023, when I go back for My 3rd PFT.
Probably WORSE THAN:
1: NOVEMBER 16, 2017 — 39%, almost Stage 4, COPD
2: DECEMBER 07, 2020 — 47%, after FIRST BOUT of COVID-19 🦠
3: FEBRUARY 24, 2023, ??%, after 2 MORE BOUTS of COVID-19 🦠:
1: JAN 02 — 06, 2021, with PNEUMONIA + 2 MORE BOUTS of PNEUMONIA, APRIL, 2021 and MAY, 2021
2: COUGHING when COVID-19 🦠 came thro LILAC ~At~ BAYVIEW On AUGUST 05 — 12, 2022, the SECOND TIME
3: DECEMBER 23, 2022 — JAN 03, 2023, with PRODUCTIVE WET COUGH With SPUTUM, NOT HOSPITALIZED this time, but still have PHLEGM at times., wow you have certainly
This PHLEGMY COUGH FEELS MUCH BETTER than a DRY COUGH ever does
