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Aged 64. Asthma 4/5 years. Now copd yesterday told. Smoked for 3 years in youth. Ex smoker. For 45 years. Worked in Power Station for 20 years , exposed to...

Aged 64. Asthma 4/5 years. Now copd yesterday told. Smoked for 3 years in youth...

jameshenry

•8 years ago

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Newby to copd

Hi I am new to site and new to copd been diagnosed recently. I am an ex smoker who has had asthma for 28 years and work in a dusty environment from woods and...

Hi I am new to site and new to copd been diagnosed recently. I am an ex smoker w...

robdonn

•8 years ago

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Newby to copd

Hi, I am 49 years old. I have recently been diagnosed with copd. I have been asthmatic since the age of 21, had bronchula pneumonia aged 5 and bronchitus at...

Hi, I am 49 years old. I have recently been diagnosed with copd. I have been ast...

robdonn

•8 years ago

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Hair still falling out in handfuls

.... Other than that over the last week or so since I was last on here, I have been to the hospital for a Lung Function Test. Had to blow in and out of a tube...

.... Other than that over the last week or so since I was last on here, I have b...

ericat659Asthma

•8 years ago

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Lung Volume Reduction

I have been put forward for lung volume reduction surgery but know nothing about it. has anyone here had the operation ?

I have been put forward for lung volume reduction surgery but know nothing about...

andyput

•8 years ago

11 Replies

New to this!!! IPF

Advice needed please Husband diagnosed with IPF end of April following private appointment with consultant (initial NHS appointment not until September!!!) Now...

Advice needed please Husband diagnosed with IPF end of April following private a...

Puppet

•8 years ago

15 Replies

Advice on Emphysema please?

Hello My name is Pete, (aka Yuk) Hodgson. I'm new here. Still working in my workshop retailing parts for rally/race cars. Started approx. 6 years ago feeling...

Hello My name is Pete, (aka Yuk) Hodgson. I'm new here. Still working in my work...

yukspeed

•8 years ago

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UPDATE ON SUSAN

To all my dear "Family" here on H.U. Thank you for all your messages of support, prayers, and for "Just being there". We have had a rocky road for the past 2...

To all my dear "Family" here on H.U. Thank you for all your messages of support...

Hidden

•8 years ago

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Bad morning

Woke up this morning coughing my lungs up, coughing really hard, lots of flem. Feeling really bad. Had some breakfast and took my meds, and it seems to have...

Woke up this morning coughing my lungs up, coughing really hard, lots of flem. F...

Symes

•8 years ago

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Anti-inflammatory foods

A friend sent me this link on Facebook this morning about anti-inflammatory foods. It was written by Asthma.net, but I guess it could help more lung issues...

A friend sent me this link on Facebook this morning about anti-inflammatory food...

Symes

•8 years ago

4 Replies

Fostair query

Hi there anybody out there know if fostair causes weight gain at all please ? I seem to have gained since starting it few mths ago Thanks Damian

Hi there anybody out there know if fostair causes weight gain at all please ? I...

Damian27

•8 years ago

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Conflict of opinion, 2 GPs first says pleurisy second says muscular, neither done tests ????

Who do I believe????

GaynorClo

•8 years ago

7 Replies

BIPAP

Good morning everyone, a lovely day today. Just after some advise and thoughts really. After many years of trying, and given a new machine STA VPAP 9 and a...

Good morning everyone, a lovely day today. Just after some advise and thoughts ...

MisUse

•8 years ago

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It definitely comes in threes

I have decided now that I cannot be let out alone. Sunday last went to Felixstowe old town to take dog for a walk along the dog friendly beach. Fell up stone...

I have decided now that I cannot be let out alone. Sunday last went to Felixstow...

JP1954

•8 years ago

13 Replies

DO YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT OR HAPPY ??

HOW TO START A FIGHT One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-law a cemetery plot as a Christmas gift......

HOW TO START A FIGHT One year, I decided to buy my mother-in-l...

Hidden

•8 years ago

30 Replies

BREATH EASY BROMLEY Information for anyone living in Kent, ie. Orpington, Bromley, St Mary Cray, Petts Wood, etc.

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING A LOCAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR PEOPLE WITH A LUNG CONDITION? IF SO WE WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU. British Lung Foundation...

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN JOINING A LOCAL SUPPORT GROUP FOR PEOPLE WITH A LUNG CONDI...

Hidden

•8 years ago

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I am looking forward to gaining more knowledge copd and hypothyroid

I am approaching 48 and found out coming up to 2yr ago i was hypothyroid which wasca fluke I thought I was menopausal then to find out and still getting over...

I am approaching 48 and found out coming up to 2yr ago i was hypothyroid which w...

SlasJ

•8 years ago

12 Replies

Targeted lung denervation

Hi, was wondering if anyone has had TLD a new research trial at the royal Brompton hospital london for empysema?

Hi, was wondering if anyone has had TLD a new research trial at the royal Brompt...

mophead1960

•8 years ago

18 Replies

Tatters with bear

Mr bear after his tatters walkies who doesn't know the Welsh version x

Titchy52

•8 years ago

11 Replies

Unremitting cough

Please forgive the urgency, but I am feeling increasingly desperate about the cough which seems not to be going away. (3 or so yrs) since diagnosis of COPD in...

Please forgive the urgency, but I am feeling increasingly desperate about the co...

Geoffreddo

•8 years ago

10 Replies

Desperate

Have constant tightness around rib cage feels like bra is tight it started about 3 years ago and was occasional it's now every day have got slight angina but...

Have constant tightness around rib cage feels like bra is tight it started about...

Bubster

•8 years ago

21 Replies

Sound Bar

Do anyone have a sound bar on there TV I'm thinking of getting one has my hearing is not that good now I've notice that Argos has got them the one I've picked...

Do anyone have a sound bar on there TV I'm thinking of getting one has my hearin...

Bliss2

•8 years ago

7 Replies

Things You FORGET To Ask Lung Consultants

Following my gut investigations WITH my gi doctor why do I feel they was holding out on me. LAST time I seen my lung doc HE said lung noodle following CT scan...

Following my gut investigations WITH my gi doctor why do I feel they was holding...

Hidden

•8 years ago

10 Replies

Wondering why so few posts about IPF/ILD

Is this because this type of lung disease is not so common? Or maybe not as serious as other things, so people do not feel the need for support group? I...

Is this because this type of lung disease is not so common? Or maybe not as ser...

Catwoman50

•8 years ago

27 Replies

General anasthesia with breathing difficulties.

Hi everyone, time has flew by since I last posted with my worries of having to have kidney stones removed under general anaesthetic as I am on oxygen 24/7 and...

Hi everyone, time has flew by since I last posted with my worries of having to h...

mich11020

•8 years ago

12 Replies

transplant

hi folk just a quick one 20 week ago today i had double lung transplant and all i can say is wow its changed my life infact ive got my life back thanks to a...

hi folk just a quick one 20 week ago today i had double lung transplant and all ...

sibkev

•8 years ago

30 Replies

My mum has just been diagnosed with emphysema

Hello everyone, My mum is 60 and she has just been diagnosed with emphysema. She isn't or wasn't a smoker. I'm trying to find out as much as I can on the...

Hello everyone, My mum is 60 and she has just been diagnosed with emphysema. She...

Heidi_Maria1985

•8 years ago

24 Replies

Confusing spirometry results!

Hey everyone! I know I posted about my case a few weeks ago, but I didn't get very many answers. I have a very confusing case. I show both severe COPD and also...

Hey everyone! I know I posted about my case a few weeks ago, but I didn't get ve...

Hidden

•8 years ago

14 Replies

Am I being daft

But I seem to remember HU changing the format so we didn't keep having to scroll to the top every time we wanted to view the next post. Why have they changed...

But I seem to remember HU changing the format so we didn't keep having to scroll...

Hidden

•8 years ago

32 Replies

Thank You All.

For your kind words and support as always, I am now on the double lung transplant list so it's a case of what comes first the telephone call or the Infection...

For your kind words and support as always, I am now on the double lung transplan...

mattcass

•8 years ago

14 Replies

Posts - Lung Conditions Community Forum | HealthUnlocked

Lung Conditions Community Forum

All posts for July 2016

Newbie

Newby to copd

Newby to copd

Hair still falling out in handfuls

Lung Volume Reduction

New to this!!! IPF

Advice on Emphysema please?

UPDATE ON SUSAN

Bad morning

Anti-inflammatory foods

Fostair query

Conflict of opinion, 2 GPs first says pleurisy second says muscular, neither done tests ????

BIPAP

It definitely comes in threes

DO YOU WANT TO BE RIGHT OR HAPPY ??

BREATH EASY BROMLEY Information for anyone living in Kent, ie. Orpington, Bromley, St Mary Cray, Petts Wood, etc.

I am looking forward to gaining more knowledge copd and hypothyroid

Targeted lung denervation

Tatters with bear

Unremitting cough

Desperate

Sound Bar

Things You FORGET To Ask Lung Consultants

Wondering why so few posts about IPF/ILD

General anasthesia with breathing difficulties.

transplant

My mum has just been diagnosed with emphysema

Confusing spirometry results!

Am I being daft

Thank You All.

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