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Then in 2017 I had gotten worse, I’ve been on different inhalers, but after a while they quit working. I’m on Symbicort and prednisone 10mg, and antibiotic. The Symbicort isn’t working as well as it use to, I’ve tried the powder inhalers, don’t work for me. My question is when do you run out of inhalers to use, are there stronger ones? or am I at the end of the road. What happens after you run out of inhalers?. It’s scary...
I think the next step will be oxygen bottle
Zephyr values for the lungs has anyone had the procedure done on this team ?
I haven’t had them and wouldn’t . I know someone who had them and they passed away within a year due to breathing failure.
1. Is lung function the same as spirometry lung %
2. Does the stage correlate to Bronchitis or Emphysema
3. As spirometry has been withdrawn in our area for monitoring purposes, also in some areas isn’t available at all, how do we know
4. Do we gauge our health and wellness on
A) health
B) wellness
C) ability.
5. How many have access to respiratory nurses?
6. Does your (annual) COPD review have more than a question and answer session.
I have mild COPD apparently with a lung capacity of 33%… read more
Neither do I , I know in the UK we don’t use the term staged
Take care
Eric x
I’m stage4, severe ,unfortunately,and yes my doctor told me
I have heard people talk about different stages of COPD - what does that mean?? And how do you know what stage you are in????
My doctor that is a lung specialist and looks after people on copd didn't tell me what stage I was at. He, I'm sure, may have considered I could blow the stage thing all out of proportion. Stage1,2,3… read more
If so what is the dosage and do you have any side effects from it?
@A MyCOPDTeam Member yep and no no real side affects
Thank you...............need to get as much info as possible xxx