Stories

I have used oxygen at home for over 6 years. I have tripped over it, my friends the same. I also have a walker. I am talking about the tubing...

I've needed to use prednisone more often, and my pulmonologist recently saw me and reviewed what inhalers I've been on. He feels Dulera will be beneficial and says to discontinue...

Hi, I got COPD in 2004 and the following year I lost my husband. It was very hard to deal with the loss and my grief. I was not on...

In the past 2-1/2 years, I have gone from walking through a fairly normal (for me anyway) life, to jumping on this crazy coaster of chronic illness. I am 61...

I use my rescue inhaler proactively before trying to get up and out of bed. Afterward, I sit on the edge of the bed for 5 minutes or so. This...

My family is telling me to exercise. I am 77, I am very tired and on a new medicine. I know exercise is important. Also cooking, bathing, driving a car...

Hello all, I was recently diagnosed with COPD. I am seeing a pulmonologist. I started out taking just the rescue inhaler until I got into the specialist. He then put...

I thought smoking was cool back in high school over 50 years ago, boy was I wrong! I would love to sue the tobacco company for not putting warnings on...

These are my biggest stressors. I get so stressed just preparing to call to order more oxygen tanks because there is always some problem with Medicare. They always need more...

Like the author of a recent story about awareness about COPD may have led to being diagnosed earlier, I grew up in a home where both parents smoked. My grandfather...

Let me start by telling you I never smoked; my parents did in the car, in the house, everywhere when I was growing up. At the age of 21 I...

I too have had many meltdowns with the doctor's office. I would call and they were too busy and I would wait for them to call me back and they...

I haven’t written for a while. It seems like I’m getting more and more forgetful. Days of the week. Severe back pain for over 25 years. Getting worse. Now down...

My decline was slow - perhaps over 16 years starting several years after I retired. By that time I was being treated for an unnamed condition - still don't know...

My dad died having experimental surgery for COPD. I still smoked, got put on oxygen, still smoked for for 5 more years. I finally quit smoking in 2004. Been using...

I try to remember all the fun I had before I learned I had wrecked my lungs. I also try to think back to the times when I had overbearing...

I grew up in a house of smokers. So at the age of 14 I started smoking. The problem was my father already had emphysema. I could see what it...

Traveling from PBI TO JFK. When we arrived at JFK I couldn’t believe the walk to the exit to be picked up. The plane parked at the end of the...

I am 67 and was diagnosed with early emphysema in March. I quit smoking in my 30's! I also found out the same month that there is damage in my...

I'm 59 With Stage 4 COPD And Emphysema. It's Only Been 2 Years Since I Was Diagnosed But Have Went Downhill Really Fast. To The Point I Can Not Do...