I am 34 yrs old and have been diagnosed with COPD with asthma on top of that. Iguess it has just started to set in on me that I,m slowly dying. They told me that it’s moderate. I am just wanting to know approx. I know that everyone is different so I just wanted to see if anyone could tell me!
I have had pneumonia (double) several times. I catch colds, flu, whatever is going around. I havepartly blocked airways and I have damage to the air sacs, my airways stay swollen most of the time and I have alot of mucus most of the time also, sometimes so thick it feels like I can’t breathe or it feels like there is a very tiny hole to breathe through. Maybe these details help.

1) Is it best to be in the desert? The mountains?

2) Is dry air or humid air better?

3) What cities or regions of North America would be most beneficial? What areas would be especially bad?

4) What compenents of smog are especially bad for people with COPD or emphysema?

5) What role does altitude play?

What is the average survival period for a COPDer? If it is common for a patient to have a trachea for COPD, does the patient still need mechanical ventilation?

My granmother wants to smoke and is slowly killing herself which is tearing my mother up. So my mom yells at my gran, who gives in and has cut down the smoking dramatically. My gran is sick with COPD and can barely breathe.

I am a smoker who is trying to quit but when I am around my gran wants to smoke more. So everyone wants me to yell at her not to smoke but I don’t even like yelling. I have tried talking with her as an adult but there is real langauge barriers.

So whats the right choice?

This is a case study.

The patient is a 62 y/o man complaining of decreased exercise tolerance. He suffered an MI 2 years ago for which he received PCI and a bare metal stent.. He has DM type II, COPD, and hyperlipidemia. Pertinent meds are verapamil ER 240mg daily, ISDN 30mg daily. He also takes NPH insulin for DM and albuterol and ipratropium for COPD. Also he is on aspirin 81mg daily.

His current ejection fraction is 30% and BP is 118/86. HR is 74 bpm, Scr is 1.4. BUN is 24 and Na and K are in normal limits.

I think the verapamil should be discontinued and replaced with carvedilol since it has been studied more in heart failure, but I’m worried about it affecting his COPD status. Can you tell me what suggestions you have? Please include references (or links) if you are using web resources.

Serious answers only please. Thank You!

my father has copd, which is the lung disease from being a smoker. I don’t know what this medication is doing to him or for him, would like to know more about it. He also has a heart condition, which was found after the copd. Can you tell me what it is doing for him?

My cob has seasonal COPD brought on by high pollen counts in hot dry weather. So that’s us only able to ride at 5 am in the summer
Just wondered how you guys cope with COPD and if you had any management tips to share with me and others
EDIT- O..k…last I checked my horse had given up smoking ….you also didn;t answer the question..but you show a good grasp of how to work Wiki…enjoy your points.

It says, you have "loss of capillaries as a result of alveolar was damage"
Why do you damage the alveoli in COPD & what are capillaries?

73-year-old Hispanic female with congestive heart failure. She has a history of COPD and chronic corticosteroid use. She has received respiratory treatments with Atrovent and albuterol in the ER but no IV has been started.
a.Why might this client’s IV be difficult to successfully start?

My mother has been a heavy smoker for over 30 years and has emphysema and stopped smoking 3 years ago. A couple days ago she got very ill and lethargic and was turning blue so we rushed her to the hospital and it turns out she has advanced COPD and they have her on a ventilator to breathe. My question is how long can someone live after being diagnosed with COPD? She is 58 years old and i’m so afraid she won’t come home from the hospital.

some medicines i can’t take because of my glauccoma and some meds i can’t take because of my COPD.

Family member has both COPD and CHF, and for couple of months now has had increased reflux the minute she puts head down on pillow. It’s not necessarily acid, but it’s like most liquid of what ever it’s eaten just goes up, sometimes accompanied by tiny pieces of food. We avoid for her going straight to sleep right after dinner, afraid fluids may go to lungs, but seldom does she want to wait half hour before going to sleep or at least lying down.

She’s been only treated for those two diseases but I recall reading about her abdominal aorta in the medical records we got from hospital after one of her stays. Her home visiting doctor got a copy as well_aside from the one he got from us_and unfortunately mine has been put away in boxes and would take a while before I find it. I never asked any of her doctors about it, since they did not talk about it either. I’m planning on asking about it and letting them know about this reflux on Monday. Is it customary in people with her condition?

I have early stage COPD and suffered with lung infections for about 30 years. I am 56 y.o. female. 4 years ago diagnosed with pseudomonas aeuriginosa of lungs which is drug resistant.

My friend’s dad was just diagnosed with COPD and i think of him as my own father which makes this harder. He’s 45 and he refuses to stop smoking and drinking which makes me scared for him. How long does he have if he doesn’t stop smoking? Will it be a painful way for him to go? Please be honest, i would like to show him this and maybe he will stop smoking and try to help himself.

Someone in my family has COPD and heart disease, which may include enlarged heart and definetely arrhythmia. I add no salt to food and make sure canned goods, such as sausages are rinsed. This goes for ham and many other salty foods.

Still, in last two years when she got very ill_having been diagnosed with COPD and some of the heart problems few years earlier_and having been in and out of hospital in at least five occassions, I still believe a lot of her crisis have to do with whatever additives (including salt) there are in packaged goods. By the way none of the doctors_and there have been plenty of them_have "strongly" cautioned against salt. Until unfortunately she has a crisis, which inludes a sort of inbalance, such as sodium being LOW instead of high, or normal for that matter. The potassium sometimes gets high, towards the end of her stay at hospital. And of course there’s the worse part which is the high concentration of carbon dioxide, occurring in patients w/COPD.