Stories

Hi I'm just new here. I don't know how to put this but yesterday I seen a heart specialist and he told me I've only a year to live maybe...

My name is Kathryn and for years I was told that I had COPD and all I knew about it was that I had to make changes in a few...

I have finally gotten around to leaving a note for my doctor, asking for a script for prednisone. Hopefully it will get me over this hump I have been going...

Due to shortness of breath I will have to tell my story in segments. Thank you so much for allowing me to join your community. I have so very much...

I have only one, maybe two days a year where all the planets align and I can actually take deep breaths without discomfort. Deep, full, breaths..and it feels good! I...

A Dr Baker at Owlscot located in Armidale NSW 2350 has just commenced a reduction for COPD patients. I have been using Trelogy for near 8 months and have just...

I was born in Glasgow, Scotland at a time when there was a lot of tuberculosis going around the city as the air wasn’t exactly pure. I developed tubercular lesions...

I was diagnosed with COPD about 10 years ago. I went for a breathing test at the pulmonologist and he said I had mild COPD and asthma. I was shocked...

I had the valves inserted a year ago in February. I am a 72 year-old woman. I am at the very severe stage, and had been on oxygen 24/7 for...

Well, 2020 has been quite a year. Not only was I diagnosed with osteoarthritis in both knees - very painful- but COPD. Like others, I was totally surprised. After quitting...

My Dad smoked, my brother and I started in high school. I smoked 20 years, but quit 40 years ago. Last September I had hyper inflated lungs. I didn't go...

I developed COPD a full 15 years after quitting smoking. I was somehow ignorant that I could escape that risk after having quit for so long. I also have multiple...

I am a 65 year old woman. I smoked for nearly 40 years, thankfully finally, successfully quit about 12-14 years ago. I first noticed this Spring what I thought was...

After numerous failed attempts to quit smoking I made the choice of quitting Cold Turkey w/ several provisos. Do it FOR someone special in your life. Do it after first...

Small town boy, spent my youth running the neighborhoods playing sports and only sat long enough to eat, while friends waited outside to play. My Dad's theory was to keep...

I realized how short of breathe I had become. But still refused to quit smoking. I had tried and failed. Finally I realized smoking had become my God. So I...

I have been living with COPD for 10 to 15 years. I would never give up cigarettes. I had my first serious exasperation. I’ve been in the hospital 2 times...

I started smoking in 1961 at 12 years of age. Initially, it was just intermittently, scrounging from older kids, ashtrays, and even lit cigarette butts found on the side of...

My journey started on 12-6-2018. I went to my husband’s Doctor because my feet and legs were very swollen and I had trouble breathing. Just walking to my car in...

Hi everyone. Around a year ago my breathing at work was starting to show. I thought it was me smoking too much. I did cut down but still it got...