Carencondon

So true. A/C is our lifesaver in hot weather

Taking a nice warm shower seems to open up my airways and my numbers improve...

Susan, I also have hay fever so I got this product called ALLER-TEC which you get it at Cosco take one a day . You get 365 pills for $13 and change so it does help me and get a years worth for that little is unheard of..

I share the change of preferred seasons with you. I used to spend all day outside in the summer gardening, biking and generally just putzing. Heat never bothered me. Now, both hot humid days as well as extreme cold affect my breathing considerably. I do other activities now but limit my outdoor times to the coolest time of the day. I don't garden any longer since my infection with a bacteria in soil, for which I've been on antibiotics for 18 months now. So, like so many COPD atients, I've adapted into what is now my new normal, subject to change at any time.
So stay cool, be happy, laugh often and be kind to yourself.. Peace

For me if it is too hot I simply no longer go out and my back bedroom is so cool and comfortable I even do exercise's on top of my bed I lie on my back and peddle a bicycle as though I was on one like ride a bicycle at for about 10 minutes have a break and do raising my leg and in a controlled movement slowly place my leg back on the bed and then the other leg, I used to do sit-ups but I have nothing to hold my feet down unless I wrap a rope around the bed that could be an idea however I did recently tried to do that and it hurt so that was the end of that one, for the time being only time will tell. there are one or two others with my arms as I have a pair of 1kg wrap around leg weights but also do the same with my arms as well as sit up and stand from the bed without using my arms or hands as leverage they were some of the exercise I used to do in the respiratory group exercises but not the cycling that is one I do as from the age of 18 I have always enjoyed cycling, I used to take my daughter out on the bar with an extra seat and I would come up against a hill, and then I would get the remark come on puffing billy but my breathing got progressively worse and stopped cycling altogether except on my back. Sometimes I do get somewhat puffed out so I take time out and then continue, as I am a great believer in doing my exercise's even if it does wear me out I am going nowhere and am not in a hurry, I cannot allow myself to get completely puffed out so I do what I can every day.