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Trying Cordyceps

After reading a few articles on how cordyceps may help with COPD, I thought I would give it a try. I'm an ex-smoker of over forty years and have COPD....

After reading a few articles on how cordyceps may help with COPD, I thought I wo...

•7 years ago

N-Acetyl-Cysteine (NAC)

This page goes into how NAC can be a game-changer for those with COPD. http://www.lifeextension.com/Magazine/2010/5/N-Acetyl-Cysteine/Page-02 I just started it...

This page goes into how NAC can be a game-changer for those with COPD. http://ww...

•7 years ago

christmas

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas & Happy New year

I would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas & Happy New year

•7 years ago

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E-cigs

I have been diagnosed with mild copd ,I quit smoking and lost about 30 pounds . My next test was actually better, improved . I can't seem to give up the e-cig...

I have been diagnosed with mild copd ,I quit smoking and lost about 30 pounds . ...

•7 years ago

Re Chest Infection.

Good afternoon, patricia7 here. Thank you very much for your responses, they do make me think. I am trying to understand re copd by listening to you all. I...

Good afternoon, patricia7 here. Thank you very much for your responses, they do ...

•7 years ago

Hello new here

Hi everyone... Just was told I had mild COPD and was told by the therapist asthma. I have stopped smoking 2 weeks ago and feel so much better. Just a little...

Hi everyone... Just was told I had mild COPD and was told by the therapist asthm...

•7 years ago

COPD INHALERS

I am now with no medical and discovered I can get from Australia or Canada pharmacist is great I pay $156 for 3 mos. Prescription for Spiriva instead of...

I am now with no medical and discovered I can get from Australia or Canada pharm...

•7 years ago

A bit worried.

Good evening everybody, patricia7 here, I just wanted to let you all know what has been going on. I filled out a form for ESA at the same time I had to fill...

Good evening everybody, patricia7 here, I just wanted to let you all know what h...

•7 years ago

Care giver

Hello Everyone, Larry just told me he has felt a "wierd" pain in his chest for 2 years. He was diagnosed with COPD around that time. Anyone familiar...

Hello Everyone, Larry just told me he has felt a "wierd" pain in his chest fo...

•7 years ago

Homemade Cough Syrup

Been very congested lately, the cold weather sure isn't helping. I made this cough syrup. Taking it a few times a day. All natural ingredients that are good...

Been very congested lately, the cold weather sure isn't helping. I made this co...

•7 years ago

Greetings

Just want to thank everyone for all the Positive encouragement and information. Am starting the transplant research process.

Just want to thank everyone for all the Positive encouragement and information....

•7 years ago

Emphysema

Just received my cat scan of my lungs: Mild upper lobe dominant emphysema. So what's the meaning of the diagnosis? Thanks for your reply!

Just received my cat scan of my lungs: Mild upper lobe dominant emphysema. So wh...

•7 years ago

Question about FEV1

Hey, I recently purchased a peak flow meter. It is an electronic one. I have had some widely varying PFT results from the full blown PFT inside the booth and...

Hey, I recently purchased a peak flow meter. It is an electronic one. I have had...

•7 years ago

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Donna 67 thank you for all of your help

I have copd and this site has helped me tremendously. There's a lot I don't understand but I'm learning

I have copd and this site has helped me tremendously. There's a lot I don't unde...

•7 years ago

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Hospital and bad experiences

When you go to the emergency room for high heart rate and they find you are a COPD patient, it's like they treat you for being a bad person for smoking, they...

When you go to the emergency room for high heart rate and they find you are a CO...

•7 years ago

COPD and chest infection

Hello. My dad is 78 and has copd. Hes been in hospital for 2 weeks with bad chest infection and now on his 4th lot of antibiotics. The first four did not work....

Hello. My dad is 78 and has copd. Hes been in hospital for 2 weeks with bad ches...

•7 years ago

Years of COPD

I've had copd for about 20 years. I take a pill for breathing and I use 2 inhalers and I have oxygen all time. I use the oxygen mostly at night and some other...

I've had copd for about 20 years. I take a pill for breathing and I use 2 inhale...

•7 years ago

Di Meriwether a new journey

Hi, I was diagnosed with copd recently. I haven't seen a pulmonologist yet. On oxygen full time, quit smoking one week ago. Didn't think I would ever do it.

Hi, I was diagnosed with copd recently. I haven't seen a pulmonologist yet. On o...

•7 years ago

Newcomer

Hi, I was just got diagnosed with COPD, emphysema. I'm 67 yrs. old. I used to smoke 26 yrs ago for about 22 yrs. I'm blessed to have found this site, as it's...

Hi, I was just got diagnosed with COPD, emphysema. I'm 67 yrs. old. I used to sm...

•7 years ago

Cordyceps Mushroom for COPD

Doing a lot of research on alternative treatments for COPD. I actually only realized I had it recently and that it was caused by inhaling tons of secondhand...

Doing a lot of research on alternative treatments for COPD. I actually only rea...

•7 years ago

Nebulizing Hydrogen Peroxide

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the top alternative treatments for COPD, listed at Earth Clinic. How to do it? Good info here. Need to get a nebulizer, never...

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the top alternative treatments for COPD, listed at ...

•7 years ago

Newly on Oxygen 24/7

Trying to adjust to portable oxygen. It is so hard because i am like a gypsy. I love to go and stay overnight with friends or stay in hotels. It's not easy...

Trying to adjust to portable oxygen. It is so hard because i am like a gypsy. I...

•7 years ago

Introducing myself

Hi COPD friends. I feel very blessed to have found this site. I suffer from copd and PAH. My diseases have progressed and i am now on oxygen 24/7. It has...

Hi COPD friends. I feel very blessed to have found this site. I suffer from cop...

•7 years ago

Frustrated

Hi ya all bn told ive copd since march have asmatha also I've slowed way down cant walk any distance do zumba but i keep tryin at the linedancing which i love...

Hi ya all bn told ive copd since march have asmatha also I've slowed way down c...

•7 years ago

Reflections on a Year with COPD

Hi All, As the year 2016 draws to a close (and many of us in the States say good riddance to it!) I've been thinking a lot about my own personal experience...

Hi All, As the year 2016 draws to a close (and many of us in the States say goo...

•7 years ago

Inhaled Glutathione

Just found this: http://www.soulfulequine.com/failures-of-the-us-medical-community/ "My mom has COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease). She was...

Just found this: http://www.soulfulequine.com/failures-of-the-us-medical-communi...

•7 years ago

Just found out i have copd

•7 years ago

Secondhand smoke and COPD

I have never smoked cigarettes, except experimentally as a teen. A friend who was with me said my face turned green. But, both my parents smoked. Mom...

I have never smoked cigarettes, except experimentally as a teen. A friend who w...

•7 years ago

Mixing puffers

I am taking tudorza 400mcg 1once in mornings and once at night l also Take Symbicort 2 puffs in morning and night is it wise to take the Symbicort...

I am taking tudorza 400mcg 1once in mornings and once at night l also Take Sym...

•7 years ago

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