Also diaphramic breathing i helpful
Nebulizers don’t cut it with me. I hate doing it and then get no effect. So I don’t use it which was a constant frustration to the head of my pulmonary rehab team
Hi I have been on oxygen for over a year now 24/24 i been working hard on losing weight, rehab, and doing what is asked from me, they check often but i wonder, can one ever get to get off oxygen or is it to stay.
Hi, @A MyCOPDTeam Member, I would like to know what your doctor says. So far I'm doing well. Every now and then my throat feels raw and I don't know what that is unless it's bronchitis. After one or… read more
use a humidifier! at night for sleep (keep it close) close bedroom door for best results
When I have to bend for more than a few minutes... for example loading my front loader washing machine or cleaning the lower half of my fridge I sit on a folding camping chair. Any low stool would do… read more
When is it decided or how, that you go on oxygen? Newly diagnosed but not not coping very well.
I have my own pulse oximeter as well. I tend to check mine if I come back from the bathroom or kitchen & find myself especially breathless to make sure something isn't percolating that I may be… read more
I have 2 /25 ft. Oxygen Tubing for my home concentrator, any idea the trick to keep it untangled?
I’m going to try the dryer sheet and look for the o2 remote too! Thanks fir the tips everyone !
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?
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
Leslie-Burke rehab center puts it out.