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Any advice on using a rollator to carry oxygen please?

My husband has IPF, and has just been given ambulatory oxygen, but isn't stable or strong enough to use the backpack. We were thinking about getting a...

My husband has IPF, and has just been given ambulatory oxygen, but isn't stable...

Spherical

•2 years ago

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Montelukast 10 mg tablets - Nasal Congestion

Montelukast 10 mg tablets - Nasal Congestion Good evening everyone. My chest specialist has given me a trial on the above tablets to try and help with my nasal...

Montelukast 10 mg tablets - Nasal Congestion Good evening everyone. My chest spe...

Joseph260268

•2 years ago

17 Replies

Birds

Very random question about budgies is it a bad idea to have one in the same house that I live in ?. I wouldn't be near it and mum would be doing the...

Very random question about budgies is it a bad idea to have one in the same hou...

Pokermon

•2 years ago

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Are zoom chat meetings still being held?

Just wondering. Thanks, James

Sharp5Flat13

•2 years ago

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Male from Kamloops BC

Living with COPD

TpTe

•2 years ago

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November Wisteria

These two photos were taken within two weeks of each other. I think the leaves will remain for another week but come the end of the month will have gone. It's...

These two photos were taken within two weeks of each other. I think the leaves w...

Greenthorn

•2 years ago

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How bad does it have to be before...

Oxygen. Thing is I have severe COPD (emphysema and bronchiectasis) at stage four. Last FEV1 32%. I am 78. Now I have also had arrhythmia and some oedema so I...

Oxygen. Thing is I have severe COPD (emphysema and bronchiectasis) at stage four...

Timberman

•2 years ago

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Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia PCD

I was born with PCD, causes bronchiectasis, sinusitis, and all my organs are transposed! Everyone has cilia, little hair like linings of lungs etc. As poems...

I was born with PCD, causes bronchiectasis, sinusitis, and all my organs are tra...

Morrison10

•2 years ago

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Pseudomonas and night sweats

Hello! I have Bronchiectasis and am colonised now with Pseudomonas. I’ve been on promixin nebulisers for two or three years now twice a day. I experienced...

Hello! I have Bronchiectasis and am colonised now with Pseudomonas. I’ve been o...

Wendyhazelnut

•2 years ago

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Mum and Ongoing cough and breathlessness..

I am after some advice from you wise people as getting slightly confused with my Mums condition/treatment.. She has recently turned 93, had Covid in Jan this...

I am after some advice from you wise people as getting slightly confused with my...

JetJet

•2 years ago

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Taking morphine

Hi Dion Sorry you are unhappy with morphine although you do seem to have had some benefit from it. I take MST 5 mg. twice a day as a cough suppressant and I...

Hi Dion Sorry you are unhappy with morphine although you do seem to have had som...

keet

•2 years ago

1 Reply

lung problems and LPR developing later age?

I have copd/asthma ? and just discovered have LPR. Im finding taking Gaviscon advance make me feel wheezy then use salbutamol to relieve it. Anyone else?

I have copd/asthma ? and just discovered have LPR. Im finding taking Gaviscon a...

GillyPed43

•2 years ago

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Bronchiectasis.. pseudomonas and Candida🙄

Have Bronchiectasis.. been fine for 10 years with the occasional exacerbation clearing with amoxicillin. October came down with nasty pseudomonas infection...

Have Bronchiectasis.. been fine for 10 years with the occasional exacerbation c...

Phill1

•2 years ago

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Pulmonary rehab

Finally had notification its up and running again , I will be given a slot at earliest possible time , tbh after having covid and pneumonia in july I need...

Finally had notification its up and running again , I will be given a slot at ea...

soulboy118

•2 years ago

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Bronchiectasis specialist

Hi all, just wondering whether anyone in Sussex /Surrey knows of a good Bronchiectasis specialist.

Hi all, just wondering whether anyone in Sussex /Surrey knows of a good Bronchie...

Sabie2

•2 years ago

5 Replies

Copd and rib cage pain

Hi was just wondering does anybody suffer from severe rib cage area pain ? I have end stage copd , bronchiectasis , asthma, hyper inflated lungs , fibromyalgia...

Hi was just wondering does anybody suffer from severe rib cage area pain ? I hav...

Cubangirl

•2 years ago

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A little Bronchiectasis update

Firstly I want to say a huge thank you to all of you who replied to my post recently looking for advice. You are all amazing & so helpful. Your suggestion &...

Firstly I want to say a huge thank you to all of you who replied to my post rece...

Otto11

•2 years ago

42 Replies

Weird scary cough, not covid

Evening everyone. Ive been having a cough for the last five weeks which came on suddenly after being exposed to cold and wind outdoors. It is very violent,...

Evening everyone. Ive been having a cough for the last five weeks which came on ...

O2Trees

•2 years ago

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Swan

❤🧡

Blackbird8

•2 years ago

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Beautiful Saturday evening

💜💙

Blackbird8

•2 years ago

48 Replies

Did you know ?

Apparently anyone on a maintenance dose of steroids and you require additional steroids through exasabation or infection the usual 30mg perday is supposed to...

Apparently anyone on a maintenance dose of steroids and you require additional s...

soulboy118

•2 years ago

20 Replies

Lung volume reduction surgery

Hi was just wanting to know if after LVRS on discharge we’re you able to go upstairs to sleep or required bed downstairs? Thanks 😊

Hi was just wanting to know if after LVRS on discharge we’re you able to go upst...

Cubangirl

•2 years ago

1 Reply

Post surgery discharge

Hi again just wanted to ask the people who have had this surgery on discharge were you able to climb stairs to go to bed or did you have bed downstairs ?...

Hi again just wanted to ask the people who have had this surgery on discharge we...

Cubangirl

•2 years ago

5 Replies

6 monthly assessment

Quick update regarding a question I had a couple of months ago. I was worried that I would not be able to perform the walk test at my my 6 monthly check up...

Quick update regarding a question I had a couple of months ago. I was worried th...

mary1956

•2 years ago

20 Replies

Davinci ICG LVRS

Hi I am being offered the very new ICG LVRS but to be honest I’m terrified at the thought of this surgery !! But reading on this forum seems people who have...

Hi I am being offered the very new ICG LVRS but to be honest I’m terrified at th...

Cubangirl

•2 years ago

14 Replies

Prednisolone Withdrawal

I've been taking prednisolone for 20 days ending on Thursday. Just wondering if anyone has had any withdrawal symptoms? I feel quite under the weather,...

I've been taking prednisolone for 20 days ending on Thursday. Just wondering if...

PAP48

•2 years ago

30 Replies

Hi guys again 🙂

With my pf I also have rumathoyd arthritis which they said was in my lungs so it caused the pf and I have mctd the morphine I don't like the feeling it gives...

With my pf I also have rumathoyd arthritis which they said was in my lungs so it...

Dion50

•2 years ago

5 Replies

Pacing, exercise and rest days

So, i'm a month from hospital discharge now and although I have made progress, its slower than I expected! I remember the doctor discharging me remarking that...

So, i'm a month from hospital discharge now and although I have made progress, i...

natswright

•2 years ago

21 Replies

Mystery condition

Hello friends, For the last week i have been suffering with leg weakness and numbness and tingling in my hands and feet. I had a flu type virus a month ago...

Hello friends, For the last week i have been suffering with leg weakness and nu...

Collie4

•2 years ago

30 Replies

Confused

I have pf for the last 6 and half Yr its really confusing me or maybe I'm in denial my dr says I'm in the end stages and put me on 2.5ml of morphine, I havnt...

I have pf for the last 6 and half Yr its really confusing me or maybe I'm in den...

Dion50

•2 years ago

15 Replies

Posts - Lung Conditions Community Forum | HealthUnlocked

Lung Conditions Community Forum

All posts for November 2021

Any advice on using a rollator to carry oxygen please?

Montelukast 10 mg tablets - Nasal Congestion

Birds

Are zoom chat meetings still being held?

Male from Kamloops BC

November Wisteria

How bad does it have to be before...

Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia PCD

Pseudomonas and night sweats

Mum and Ongoing cough and breathlessness..

Taking morphine

lung problems and LPR developing later age?

Bronchiectasis.. pseudomonas and Candida🙄

Pulmonary rehab

Bronchiectasis specialist

Copd and rib cage pain

A little Bronchiectasis update

Weird scary cough, not covid

Swan

Beautiful Saturday evening

Did you know ?

Lung volume reduction surgery

Post surgery discharge

6 monthly assessment

Davinci ICG LVRS

Prednisolone Withdrawal

Hi guys again 🙂

Pacing, exercise and rest days

Mystery condition

Confused

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