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My mom was doing water aerobics 4 times a week before a bad COPD flareup 2 months ago. She ended up in the hospital and had 2 weeks of rehab afterwards. She was doing 4 nebulizer treatments a day but they did not help. She was on prednisone the whole time and still is. She uses Spireva and Symbicort. She lies around all day and has no energy. Her pulmonologist said he can not do anything else and referred her to a cardiologist. She had an echocardiogram in January that showed pulmonary… read more
She has secondary pulmonary hypertension. It's a condition that people with COPD can develop, usually caused by chronically low O2 saturation levels. I'd talk with the cardiac doc about what medications might be helpful for her; there are some. Not all of them work with everyone, but it's worth talking about and seeing what else she can do to help herself. My friends who have secondary pulmonary hypertension exercise daily even when they don't feel like it, so ask about that.
Jean, We saw the cardiologist yesterday and she said she can not help and to go back to the pulmonologist.
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