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   Leon Lebowitz, RRT Member

   <p>Hi again, Slyboots, and thanks for sharing your story. It sounds like (from your post) that you have both COPD and asthma. When you said it took you 3 days to get over the recent asthma attack (in the yard), how were you able to get past it? Is there anything you can share with the community? <br> All the best, Leon (site moderator)</p>

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   slyboots Member

   <p>I went back to the pulmonologists office and got a new inhaler and rescue inhaler, and drank lots of water, kept water at the bedside, sucked on cough drops, complained a lot, took cough medicine with codeine at night to sleep, and said a lot of prayers. <br> I just don&#39;t understand how I can be diagnosed as COPD and then diagnosed as Asthma or can one have both at the same time. I return to the original pulmonary doc later this month and will share that experience. What do others say about this?</p>

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      Leon Lebowitz, RRT Member

      <p>Hi again, Slyboots and thanks for following up here with the results of your return visit to the pulmonologist. It is entirely possible to be diagnosed with both COPD and asthma, but it&#39;s easy to understand this can be somewhat confusing. I thought this article on that very topic (Asthma COPD Overlap Syndrome (ACOS)), might provide you with some additional insight: <a href='https://copd.net/clinical/acos' target='_blank'>https://copd.net/clinical/acos</a> . I do hope you find it to be helpful. <br> We will also look forward to hearing back from you after your next visit, later this month.<br> Good luck! <br> Leon (site moderator)</p>

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