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Hi, my story is quite long so I hope I don't want to bore you fellow COPD'ers. I was diagnosed 11 years ago with rheumatoid arthritis which was full on...

Hi. I was diagnosed with COPD about 11 years ago. I was devastated when I found out what it was. I quit smoking immediately and that lasted for 8 and...

Pulmonary Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis Rare (Interstitial Lung Disease) https://www.histio.org/page.aspx?pid=383 3/31/2015 Respiratory Failure Sats 79% 4/06/2015 Open Lung Biopsy 4/09/2015 Recovery (Complications Re-incubated). 4/16/2015 Released from Hospital,with 24/7 Oxygen. Sats 97%...

It started long before I found out I have COPD, I couldn't figure out what was causing this pain inside my rib cage because many or no activities would bring...

I wanted to post something about these muscle spasms. I also had these for quite some time and they were quite painful. They also inhibited my movements because I didn't...

Well we all know sometimes we want to just give up but then that fighting side of us comes out because let's face it most of us have too many...

Well how's everyone today? Love y'all. Well I've had a good day so far, went to a new church today with my wife and son and grandkids. Most people don't...

It is so hard to live with this but I smoked many years. I've just married the love of my life. I'm now 56, she's 50. Been in love since...

I was diagnosed with COPD 5 yrs ago. I was hospitalized twice, came home both times on oxygen, which I came off, they say I am very severe. I do...

I have vocal chord disfunction caused by the use of inhalers. Is there anyone out there with this ailment and how do you cope with it?...

I have COPD. That's my story. It is what it is...

Hello... I was recently diagnosed with COPD after a 7 day hospital stay, since then I have been told by another doctor it's acid reflux and now my sinus doctor...

I am recently widowed and was diagnosed with COPD in Dec 2014. I have been in denial but now on oxygen and getting harder to go places or do my...

I started smoking at twelve years of age. It wasn't just limited to tobacco. After eight crazy years of smoking whatever, my friends were beginning to use hard drugs. Heroin...

My mother passed in 2009 with COPD. I was her sole caregiver 24/7. At the time I didn't know I had lung cancer. Anyway, in 2013 I had a chest...

Started smoking at the age of 11, stealing a few at a time from my mothers cigarettes, by the time I was 14 I was smoking a pack a day...

Hi, I was diagnosed with COPD August 2012. I have cramps in every part of my body that's possible, different day brings a cramp in legs, arms, fingers, toes, face...

In 1989, my youngest sister through labs was told she has low Antitrypsin counts and perhaps she and siblings should be tested for Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. We had family...

I was so relieved to see that others experience this. I have thought that it might be a heart attack and have worried about it. My cardio says my heart...

I was up in Oklahoma and feeding the cows and horses, and went to get the keys to my neighbor's truck to go to pick up some feed boxes, and...