I have copd, I spent 2 weeks in hospital attached to bipartisan etc, discharged Xmas eve.
I am only taking mucodyne and sere tide and spitiva. I do feel better. I took part in the respiratory exercise programme last year and go to the follow up. I found the programme to be excellent and the support from the physics and other participants is fantastic. It is hard accepting that you have a serious disease from which you will not recover. I am trying, some days successfully and some days not, to accept what I can and what I can no longer do. Reading the comments from others is a big help, it makes me realise that I am not on my own. Thank you everybody
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It helps when you get support from people who know what it is like to have copd and also the stopping smoking. Thank you, thank you, for all the positive comments. It really does help and encourage me to continue
Ive never smoked but having spent around 6 months in hospital respiritory wards and ITU I've seen the results of it and the damage and destruction it causes too people and thier families. Giving up is the best thing you could do for you and all those who love you. Well done polly63.
Polly, you said you will not recover, but if you continue not to smoke I bet you'll be surprised at how much better you feel and that you can do more than you could whilst still smoking. My husband continued to smoke with very severe COPD. He got to the point where he was given about two weeks to live. He stopped smoking (long story, but not his decision at the time). He's still around and going to the pub every day three years later -- so it goes to show that not smoking can work miracles.
I have at long last accepted that I cannot do certain things anymore, but I still enjoy life and find it's the little things I enjoy and look forward to now, things I just use to accept and remember 'no more smoking', difficult I know.
Really good work on your part. Carry on with exercises and you should see that your illness takes a slower step! That should also build your confidence. Have confidence to fight the illness with good eating, good heating, enough exercise every day.
Exercise makes you feel tired and hungry. You eat, you feel satisfied. You sleep and you feel regenerated. In fact, i think a lot of low mood is often a sign of tiredness. We exert a lot to breathe properly with our illness. Exercise, IMO, is the core of our defence against the progress of our illness. Take courage.
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