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Any One Have Good Results Using A Nebulizer? My Left Lobe In That Lung Has Collapsed. Dr Is Hoping This Will Revive The Lung Area ?
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I use a nebulizer 6 times a day and it really helps!GOOD LUCK KIDDO!! Sue Evers

I Have Not Heard Many People Ask By The Weather Has Anything To Do With COPD. It Might Seem That Cold Windy Wet Weather Is Not Our Friend.
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Heat and humidity are not very good on COPD I’ve found also

Does Anyone Else Have Trouble Keeping Track Of All Meds And Times ?
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I use a 7 day pill dispenser
1 for morning
1 for nights

Portable Spirometry And Remote Patient Monitoring
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There are portable Spirometry devices to measure FEV1% and help manage our Condition. THIS device was approved last June, 2020.
Are we the last to be told??
https://aluna.blog/fda-clears-aluna-for-diagnos...

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It took Google a couple of weeks but She found IT!!! The ball is rollin' now
AJMC.com Managed Markets Network: Telemonitoring Reduces Some Exacerbation-Related Health Care Use in COPD
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Medications For Depression Anxiety
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@A MyCOPDTeam Member - I've used diazapam (generic for Valium), 2 mg, cut in half, 2 -3 times/day, for many years. While for many it can cause depression or anxiety but for me it's the opposite… read more

How Long Have Has Everyone Been Disgonised For? Anything You Would Like To Share With Us Newbies.
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Well done Bonnie. You show me I should be doing more to help myself.

Is Anything (new Medications)in The Last 6 Months Been Approved To Help With COPD Seem To Work Any Better Than The Older Ones?
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I don't believe there have been any new meds introduced in the last six months. The last I'm aware of are a couple of years old: Trelegy and Breztri.

How Do You Donate New Unopened COPD Medications For Those That Can't Afford It?
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I have switched to a new medication and have unopened inhalers.

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In Iowa there is an organization where you can donate medications: https://safenetrx.org/ I have not checked this organization out.

I would bet that many states have similar organizations you can… read more

Does Anyone Smoke Cigs. If You Did And Quit, And Remained Quit. Will You Please Share Your Ways. I Tried With No Success At Stayin Quit.
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I don't know what it means, but pulmonary told me I was in stage 4 and if I don't quit smoking and use a c pap at night that I would die in 6 months. Well they gave me a trilogy machine and it's up to me to quit cigs. Not so hard to quit. So far it's been impossible to stay quit. I stay so depressed. This disease has control of what I can do now. And compared its horrible. As I don't watch TV nor Read... any advice?

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I agree with this. If you don't want to quit then you won't. Wouldn't it follow then that if you don't quit it's not because you can't but because you won't. It takes work for most people. I'm not… read more

Hi Team Natural Treatment For Copd,please . Kish Tura
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Hi Jean
The most important and number one is breathing in copd followed by what ever you said
Once you got copd you got it for life but you can control the signs and symptoms by one third if you… read more