My last lung function results some say this means i don't have CODP if you go by The GOLD reports but my doctor says i do. can anyone on here help with these ?
hiya john i wish i could help you with this. im really new to this copd. ive only just had the test. and from the results im in the early stages. later today im seeing my own GP to discuss the results and he will prob be putting me on some medication. im 59 an x smoker, i think they said my result was 65%. if im honest with you i dont really understand but i will be finding out as much as i can today about it. have you had this condition long, and was you or are you a smoker i hope you dont mind me asking. i hope you get some answers id go back to the docs and maybe discuss again good luck take care julie
I smoked for over 40 years only found out after having a ct scan looking for something else and found i had emphysema changes that was last august. Only medication i have is a blue inhaler they give me last week so i have one for emergency.. Are you in UK ?
morning john thank u so much for answering me. just nice to talk to someone who understands. i am okay now. im seeing my GP this afternoon at 4.30 so i will be able to find out from him things i need to know. i suppose he will give me some meds of some sort. now at our surgery we do have 1 nurse who deals with copd she did the breathing test thing on me last week. i shall make an appointment to talk to her. i am not anti smoking at all my best mate smokes we all have a choice. i just feel guilty for smoking. is it the luck of the draw, some people smoke all their lives really heavy and are fine. yet i didnt smoke all that long and ive got this. oh i dont know john i just finding excuses. i suppose if you smoke you take a chance of getting something like this. its like folks who work in a bad invironment they get these sort of diseases. you said about emphysema my mam had that she had smoked all her life she was born in 1921 and eveybody smoked in them days. john do you get very breathless and do you get chest pain with it. thank you for listening take care love julie xxxxxxxxxx
Hi no symptoms at all just yet no SOB no chest pain nothing. Only thing i have is feel like i have not been to sleep and exhausted all day but i think it's from this acid reflux.
My last COPD test was last week and the nurse could not believe how much my lung function had improved, i have also got my cholesterol back to normal and no longer pre diabetic all from eating the right stuff and exercise, and i also stopped smoking 3 months ago. They did want me to take statins but i hate taking tablets.
hi again you are doing well, do you take anything for acid reflux, i do, your doc will prescribe you something although youve said you dont like taking tablets. im also on atorvastatin for cholesterol. best to take tablets if they make you feel better. its like a blooming sweet shop at our kitchen table in a morning. lol xx
I take 2 tables for my acid but they don't stop it, it only affects my throat mostly, and the hospital say i don't need surgery for it.
I got offered statins but read to much bad things about them so fixed it myself. I am stuborn and like to sort my own problems out if i can.
What part of UK are you from ?
hiya i admire you that your sorting your self out. im on statins cos i had a heart attack in 2015 so im on lots of meds. thats strange what you say about the acid only affecting your throat. its not a nice feeling, i would keep on at the doctor about it. i was on lanzoprazole but my doc took me off it a couple of weeks ago and put me on pantoprazole. i think he maybe thought id been on lanzoprazole a long time i dont know really. i will let you know how i get on today with my doc . take it easy xxx
I am on esomeprazole but tried them all not worked thinking of stopping them and trying applie cider vineger instead. I don't find my docotrs very good at all.
im sorry your not happy with your doctors, im very lucky with mine. i live in the country so i can see a doctor on the day i feel ill. we have quite a few nurses also some general, 1 copd and i see the heart nurse. theres no harm in try apple cider vinegar. youve nothing to loose.
hi didnt get your last messege it says its been deleted by a moderater take care take it easy julie
let me know how you get on at the doctors.
hi yes i deffo will x
how did you get on
hiya john nice to hear from you, im get a bit muddled with these different messeges. i thought id been in touch with you but obviously i havent sorry about that. right to date ive seen my GP and im on the Incruse Eliptta once a day the blue salbutamol 2 puffs 4 times a day. when i try to anything i still get that im gasping. still getting plenty of chest pain now i dont know if this is my Angina or chest pain from my lungs.. i see the copd nurse on 26th so will have a few questions for her. now ive looked at the website for emphysema and i now understand the gold staging system. looking at it im at B has my air flow measured 75%. i shall of course discuss this with the nurse and see if she agrees with me. i was also feeling very poorly tired and my colour didnt look good. anyway the doc said all my blood levels were on the low side, although good for me. hes now put me on 1 iron tablet twice a day. i can honestly say i do feel better in my self. now thats enough of me john. how are you. have you seen any doctors etc. look forward to hearing from you take care julie
The gold is report is meant to be the best to go by My FEV1 is 81 so i must be stage 1
I am sorry you feel poorly it sucks i like to be bright eyed and bushy tailed but not bery often that i am I have to see the nurse in a few weeks and don't even know whey, she said i am fit and no symptoms so not much they can do until i start getting some.
hiya john i got my husband to print it all off for me. and you will be at group A (gold 1 or 2) . im the next one Group B. im pleased that you have no symptons. i started feeling really bad about 17th february, and just got worse, of course all the medical people thought it was my heart and maybe the stent was blocked, but it wasnt having been in hospital. thats when they said could it be your lungs. then that opened the can of worms. im now used to the idea , its more of a worry when you dont know why your feeling poorly, i now know what im to deal with. i just do a little bit get breathless so i sit down. my attitude now is not what i havent done in a day, its what i have done , ive also started to take more of an interest in listenting to my cds even bought a new player for a better sound. take care julie
Yes it's scary when they first tell you and we all look on doctor google lol but i know people who have had ti 20 plus years so lets. hope we are the same funny you said about cds i have bought a motor bike said i would not have one again but i think why not.
I will keep an eye out for new posts on here from you with updates. Take Care
hi and you take care on the motorbike, not you all the other idiots on the road. ill keep in touch. ps next week im at the cardio hospital they are fitting me with a 24 hours ECG just to see what my hearts doing, i know this is nothing to do with copd. just thought id let you know what my next appointment was. take care julie
I had one of them 4 years ago it kept waken me up every 20 minutes during the night.