COPD....Advice?

Ken N Tx said:
Thank you all....It is a real battle that I am going to win!!!!!
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Ken, Do it today! I smoked 43 years, it will be three years come July since I have had one. Get the Chantixx, I tried it and it does work. I quit for better than six months then went back.
I finally went cold turkey. It ain't easy, I hurt and wanted to either kill or die. I will be totally honest, even after almost three years I crave all the time. I can handle it but it is always there like a bug crawling around my nervous system.
Do not let me dissuade you, since I have quit I found out that many many people really need to have better hygiene, I have found new and wonderful tasting foods, While I was sick with one or another respitory ailment, several times a year I have had only one such illness since I put them down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWXbVsMkz1U
 

COPD is an insidious disease. It slowly creeps into your life. Four years ago it smacked me hard and put me in the hospital ICU on a CPAP machine for 4 days and bags of steriods/antibacterials and saline. Since then I have been in hospital for shorter stays mostly because of cold related lung blocking problems. Now warm weather is here and I get feelings of not enough oxygen even though my oximeter says I am. It just feels like I am not getting enough. But then if I concentrate on breathing, in through the nose and force out through pursed lips I can get the oxygen levels to come up.
I of course have all the usual nebulizer/inhaler meds and prednisone pills. If I can find someway to take my mind of the feeling it helps me to calm myself and breath easier.....I surely would like a cpap machine at home to use for short term help breathing.
 
i bought a spirometer --when i first used it i could only get to 5000 now i am up to 1000--my grandson tried it he went all the way to 4000 he says thats because he never smoked he is 26--it is suppose to stregthen your lungs
 

I've have good luck with regular use of humidifiers and vaporizers along keeping the sinuses as clear as possible with salt water/saline rinses. After decades of sinus meds & year infections the specialist said it's very easy to over medicate sinus and respiratory problems. The meds can dry out and/or irritate sinus linings for example.

Good Luck
 
Some things I read about: wash all bedding in hot water, shower before you go to bed, pollen and dust stay in your hair and clothes. get a humidifier, stop smokng, 'nough said
 
My DH has COPD. Albuterol & Budesonide by nebulizer, Spiriva and Albuterol puffers. This year he added Singulair to the Loratidine he takes for allergies...also helps with asthma. Long-time smoker and asthmatic guy, smoke-free for over six years. Had he given up that addiction much earlier, life now would be more of a LIFE! Not being a smoker was the best decision I ever made. But I've lived with second-hand smoke, so...who knows what that did. My DD is a pulmonologist specialist...deals with these conditions all the time.
 
You can research COPD and grape seed extract. I know it's recommended for asthmatics and a friend is taking it about 7 yrs and she's so improved on it. I'm headed to my 23rd year taking grape seed extract and overall health is pretty good, I'm 80 soon.
 

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