COPD what as it instore for me?
when you have co pd and you cannot give up smoking after many trys. how long have i got 2 live. i`m weak and just cart stop. i have tried everything. even help with smoking advisers. and family around me smoke 2 i have mild 2 serve re COPD.. would like to know how long most silly people like me live for who car`t give the devil cigs up. know long goings on about my smoking please as i say iv`e tried and i keep on trying.all i can do up 2 now. im breathless going up and downstairs and i`m not sure what COPD AS IN STORE FOR ME.
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I have COPD. Severe asthma brought me to this, plus Black Flag Bug Spray, as a child and teen. So far, I’ve been hospitalized 3 times. I am on oxygen 24/7. I have a nebulizer so that I can give myself breathing treatments each day. I am 65. I bought a pulse oximeter so I can tell if my % of oxygen (the finger thingee they have probably used on you, as well) each day…….or more than once a day, if I feel really badly.
The first time that I gave up and went to ER, my pulse ox was only 78. I stayed 9 days that time. The kept expecting me to die, and kept telling me to not even think of going back to my home! No way! I came home, and my husband, my sons have helped me out, greatly.
I can’t clean my house as far as the harder things……..and harder is to vacuum or to mop. I am short of breath most of the day and the night. I took care of my young grandson for the first 7 years of his life, but, I can’t do that, anymore. That hurts the worst. I fear having kidney failure, as so many COPD patients end up that way.
Daily, I take meds for the asthma, as well. I’ve totally lost my appetite, and now, I am a size 1. I am 5’5″ and I’d like to continue to weigh 115 or 120 pounds, as I weighed all my adult life.
Look forward to a lot of changes in your life with COPD. See you dr. on a regular basis. You may end up only talking to your friends and family on the phone, soon. as you will find it just too hard to lug a portable oxygen tank, your purse, and whatever else. as you try to drive, yourself. After that, you won’t be able to drive, because you know you aren’t getting enough oxygen to allow yourself to drive. You will scare your family and friends, who look at you, with oxygen on, skinny, white faced. They may stop inviting you to,,,,,, any place. If you are as lucky as I am, your family, such as your children and grandchildren may continue to check on you, daily. My husband is scared to death that I will die while he is at work.
COPD is no fun, and, usually quite a shock to be diagnosed in the first place. Do the best you can, and that’s all you can do. If you really cannot quit smoking, just live as well as you can, while you can. I’m right in there with you, so, I wish us good luck, loving families, and a peek at next year, as well!
The first time that I gave up and went to ER, my pulse ox was only 78. I stayed 9 days that time. The kept expecting me to die, and kept telling me to not even think of going back to my home! No way! I came home, and my husband, my sons have helped me out, greatly.
I can’t clean my house as far as the harder things……..and harder is to vacuum or to mop. I am short of breath most of the day and the night. I took care of my young grandson for the first 7 years of his life, but, I can’t do that, anymore. That hurts the worst. I fear having kidney failure, as so many COPD patients end up that way.
Daily, I take meds for the asthma, as well. I’ve totally lost my appetite, and now, I am a size 1. I am 5’5″ and I’d like to continue to weigh 115 or 120 pounds, as I weighed all my adult life.
Look forward to a lot of changes in your life with COPD. See you dr. on a regular basis. You may end up only talking to your friends and family on the phone, soon. as you will find it just too hard to lug a portable oxygen tank, your purse, and whatever else. as you try to drive, yourself. After that, you won’t be able to drive, because you know you aren’t getting enough oxygen to allow yourself to drive. You will scare your family and friends, who look at you, with oxygen on, skinny, white faced. They may stop inviting you to,,,,,, any place. If you are as lucky as I am, your family, such as your children and grandchildren may continue to check on you, daily. My husband is scared to death that I will die while he is at work.
COPD is no fun, and, usually quite a shock to be diagnosed in the first place. Do the best you can, and that’s all you can do. If you really cannot quit smoking, just live as well as you can, while you can. I’m right in there with you, so, I wish us good luck, loving families, and a peek at next year, as well!
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ty 4 your kind words..the over people only told me what i already know that smoking is killing me..think i now know what to do thanks to your kind words. i`m already on mask at home. bless us both hun and thank u xx