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[Duff1953]

Does anyone know if fev of 22 will improve as I have just completed pulmonary rehab and give up smoking six months ago also spend approximately one and half hours a day at excersise sometimes it’s like I am getting worse and you just don’t know what to do that might help improve my breathing thank you so much for listening or reading my posts duff

[Schmicter]

If you remain smoke free and exercise to breathlessness you will make gains in your ability to breathe easier and more efficiently. One and a half hrs a day is a lot of exercising, you can over exercise and make yourself feel worse. Look into a pulse or heart monitors and recommended heart rate training...which will work your lungs effectively. I have been almost 2 yrs not smoking with emphysema...exercise regularly with a heart monitor, and honestly takes about a year to notice improvements in breathlessness and general tiredness.

[Duff1953 in reply to Schmicter]

Thank you schmicter that’s very uplifting and hopefully i will start to improve as time goes by

[Feelingblessed2013]

I agree with Schmicter, exercising for an hour and a half every day is a lot. You can over do it pretty easily. After my second LC surgery, my doctor said I should do as much physical activity as I was comfortable doing, and then push myself just a bit more. He said little by little my breathing would get better and my endurance would improve, and he was right. It took years for your lungs to get this way, it will take time for things to improve.

[Hidden]

Sorry to inundate you with posts. But, I just saw your post above from a month, or so, ago. I quit smoking in October 2009. I will agree with others and say it took probably a year, or even longer to feel much, much better. I already had COPD, but your lungs take a while to "get clean". I did a lot of coughing, etc., for the first 9 months, or so, after I quit. Not always a productive cough, but a cough nonetheless. I will wager that at about 1 year post quitting, you will realize you feel much better. Best of luck to you in your quest for better health. FYI-I still get an occasional to rare craving for a smoke--almost always out of the blue, as they say. It shows you how powerful the addiction is...!

[Duff1953 in reply to Hidden]

I do hate to see young people smoking if only they were aware of problems in later years i still don’t think that they are doing enough to teach young people the dangers of smoking they should be making tobacco companies pay for this education in every school through out the whole country they have got away with selling their poisons long enough the younger generations have to be protected from these companies governments have to deal with it no more excuses duff

[champ11]

Don't want to give you had news it just gets worse i have three every thing I can thank of.my oxygen drops fast just to go to my door in the house it's about 25feet my oxygen drop from 95 to 65 it sucks it takes it about 3 to 5 minutes to get back to 95.I I've had copd sense 2000 and it sucks ,,,transplant is your only bet, good luck.

[champ11]

I can tell you something about the coils the FDA stoped all the trial's in the U.S. In 2014 some did o.k. and a lot didn't i have been waiting sense 2008 in Europe and Switzerland for good out come thay have been doing them for years so the FDA say we need more research on the coils I thank we just need more doctors to do more research. so good luck get on the trial list that's the first thing you need to do. I hope this helped.