Severe cellulitis ...I have COPD 9 years on oxygen 24/7....Reactions0reactionsComments6 repliesBreathingCoping
Nana has progressive COPD...For the most part, her oxygen levels are 95% and above. She does not have home oxygen. She takes regular inhalers and carbocisteine....Reactions0reactionsComments5 repliesEmphysemaFlares Treatment
Wife trying to understand husbands diagnosis ...He then spent 4 days in hospital in July, 5 days end August , sent home for 1 day with oxygen tank on 3. He had never been on...Reactions0reactionsComments4 repliesAwarenessBreathing
Mask outdoors...Well, last week I took my little shower chair that I converted to a garden chair, little oxygen cylinder on a cart, hand saw and clippers, big paper leaf...Reactions0reactionsComments2 repliesSymptomsTriggersBreathing
Pulmonary Rehabilitation...The nurse was nice, but I was a little disappointed after her monitoring my blood oxygen after a 6 minute walk, and being on some of the machines when...Reactions0reactionsComments19 repliesPulmonary Rehabilitation
Air hunger...Newly on supplementary oxygen but when I’m having an uncontrollable coughing session I begin panting through my mouth....Reactions0reactionsComments5 replies
How are the stages of COPD figured?...I am on oxygen 24/7, use a nebulizer, trelegy and a rescue inhaler....Reactions0reactionsComments5 repliesCoping
My nose canula falls out of my nos...If I forget to put on my biPAP at night, the canula falls out of my nose; I wake up 4-5 hours later with an oxygen saturation of aroind...Reactions0reactionsComments4 repliesDepressionBreathingCoping
O2 Sats normal so why the suffocating feeling?...Normal oxygen sats with my oximeter, 95-97% but still feel breathless. Gave up smoking 18 days ago and it's worse since then!?...Reactions0reactionsComments1 repliesBreathing
Cough, syncope, hand tremors, exasperations ...This is weird and am wondering if this has something to do with COPD, not getting oxygen to my brain and my right hand starts wigging out....Reactions0reactionsComments3 repliesEmphysemaChronic BronchitisFlares
Dental Work...and my primary care physicians feel I am healthy enough for anesthesia, and in fact, I have had various elective surgeries in the past ten years (since oxygen...Reactions0reactionsComments1 replies
Pulmonary Rehab...The nurse was nice, but I was a little disappointed after her monitoring my blood oxygen after a 6 minute walk, and being on some of the machines when...Reactions0reactionsComments26 repliesPulmonary Rehabilitation
Is this a issue with you...using o2 for 20 plus years and so when these people see a young person on o2 it's easy for them to approach me with the line of you look...Reactions0reactionsComments6 repliesCoping
A lonely journey!...Slowely but surely after several courses of steroids and what i would say non serious exacerbations her resting oxygen levels now sit at 80/81%....Reactions0reactionsComments7 repliesFriends & FamilyHospice & Palliative CareEnd Stage
Pain in back/ ribs...Went to PcP yesterdayand they did a pft, EKG, already had blood workup, took oxygen level, and BP....Reactions0reactionsComments5 repliesBreathing
Moving forward?...Last two times I have had lowered oxygen saturation (down to 95) most times it's 99-100....Reactions0reactionsComments3 replies
Lung pills?...so, occasionally I get something that tells me it will help my lung function, sometimes this is in pill form, and once it was something called "Liquid Oxygen...Reactions0reactionsComments13 repliesTreatment
Dealing With People Who Are Ignorant About COPD...They accused me of faking because I am not using oxygen or a walker and claimed I was taking from "people who are genuinely ill"....Reactions0reactionsComments5 replies
Does anyone have a flat diaphragm?...I am not on oxygen yet, and have maintained the same lung function for six years since I quit smoking....Reactions0reactionsComments3 replies
Just told I have restrictive lung disease, told I have chronic bronchitis???...Told I have sleep apnea which is being treated with oxygen. Told I have congestive heart failure, which is being treated with meds....Reactions0reactionsComments3 replies
