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simon 126

12 years ago•6 Replies

I have servere COPD I am on inhalers and Diazepam to help me sleep I get very breathless and mainly very limited in all activities Pulmonary test shows servere airway obstruction and serverely reduced TLCO and possible lung fibrosis these are irreversible I get very upset as I was always active, Thank You.

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12 years ago

Hello Simon, is it right to say you were a long-term smoker?

If your COPD is the result of smoking, did you wait before going to get checked out?

It sounds like you are not very old.

Yes what is hard to grasp or take, is the idea of how you normally get ill then get better, but the idea of not being able to get better is awful, that's true.

Were you already coughing terribly and other things like that, for a very long time before going for help?

There are millions of people walking about or living, who are unaware of what they have, when they cough they say, oh yeah, I have a terrible smokers cough, when they are short of breath it's, yeah I'm well out of condition.

This is how people wind up getting diagnosed and then finding out they are already in the severe stage.

God knows how I wasn't as I had been coughing like a nutcase for years but carried right on smoking even though I thought I was going to cough my gall bladder up sometimes

simon12612 years ago

TJohn I was not a heavy smoker I have stopped many times longest 5 years I am 55 now in 2008 I had prostrate cancer and underwent an operation a Radical prostatectomy after the operation COPD was diagnosed I still Carried on smoking but 12weeks ago stoped COPD got worse THANKS

12 years ago

Well done Simon, stay with the not smoking trip my friend, really, just don't do it anymore.

It's the only real medicine; if a person smokes then all of the medicine is in fact, more or less a waste of time.

Never kid yourself too, like by tagging along with what someone else says; in many cases, if you mention the fact that with COPD you really must quit smoking it's like you tried to force-feed Dracula garlic, as the smokers who have COPD but refuse to see the light and quit, cannot take anyone criticising their weakness.

I know the weakness as it was mine too for so very long, and I so regret that I ever started, but, I am real, and if people do not like what I say, basically they can stuff it, as I'm not talking nonsense, don't suffer fools and COPD is not a game, you cannot kid yourself.

Good luck Simon, sorry to hear that you have suffered all of that, but do remember what I said and stick to the no smoking thing, it's the only medicine you have.