Early symptoms of COPD?
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2021
- What are some early symptoms of COPD - chronic obstructive pulmonary disease? This condition affects many people, generally over the age of 40-50. Most commonly, it affects people who smoked for many years.
Initially, most patients complain of fatigue, tiredness, especially on exertion. For example, many people may find climbing stairs or keeping up with their friends when going for a walk more difficult. Many people think this is a normal part of growing older, however sometimes COPD may explain this shortness of breath on exertion.
Coughing, especially a productive, wet cough which doesn't seem to go away may also be a sign of COPD. Sometimes it may be only chronic bronchitis, however, a spirometry is usually necessary to make the distinction. Spirometry is a simple breathing test which can help diagnose COPD.
Once COPD is diagnosed there are many treatments available, mostly inhalers. In mild cases, only one inhaler dose per day may be sufficient to improve symptoms dramatically.
Do not hesitate to discuss any respiratory symptoms with your doctor, as it is worth diagnosing COPD early.
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Quit smoking a month ago. I feel worse, not better. The cough snuck up on me.
It's gone now-was the first thing to go away when I quit. Couldn't call myself a "heavy" smoker. Saw cardiology to check because I have MVP-only possible comorbidity. My fatigue/loss of energy is getting worse. I feel horrible after quitting smoking when I'm expected to feel all freaking fantastic.
So wait was u diagnosed with this?
I was the same but it does get better
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This wil change. Also when you smoke your lungs will freaking hate it and open up as much as they can to let air in. It can temporarily feel "better" but in reality you are feeding your lungs the toxins to make em feel even more shite afterwards...
How sad are you better now
Please keep talking about this.. Thank you..
Good info, God bless you Dr 🇦🇺🙏🍀
Thank you for the informative concise video. Never a smoker however for 40 years worked at very old dusty auto repair shop part time and past two years full time. The mechanics never followed my suggesion of dumping/cleaning aspestos filled brake drums outside when replacing brake shoes but always inside on the floor. For heating the shop, they use a used motor oil heater/ burner.. Doctors say I have moderate emphysema I am quiting the job tomorrow.
You doing alright now?
@@Taliyah263 I will see when I do some cycling in the heat this summer. I'm going to the south of Italy for two months and hopefully I will have the energy this time to escape the packs of dogs that wonder and harass when I'm doing shopping/errands. Where I go, alot of mafia land owners have dogs but the dogs wander around the dirt roads. Hillbilly land you can say.I didn't quit my job but we have no use for the used motor oil burner for heat now and the garage doors are always open with good weather. My boss says he will be relocating this year and he won't be taking the oil burner to the new location. I just gotta wear a mask when sweeping and dealing with piles of hoarded stuff/parts my boss keeps lying around which we could never sell or use. I am doing some breathing exercises found on RUclips which I think will help. I don't think my lower lung will reinflate but I can probably stop it from getting worse.
A good partnership with your doctor? I wish I had one doctor with whom I had a good partnership. The reality is I see a different person every time. These people are not even doctors, but clinicians. I just went to the "doctor" and I told the woman who saw me (who was not a doctor) that I have been coughing excessively over the past years off and on for months at a time and it's really tiring and starting to worry me. She listened to my chest, said "you have a chest infection" and prescribed antibiotics.
I've never smoked a day in my life, and yet I have COPD. The only thing left is constant exposure to heavy cigarette smoke when I was growing up.
I understand your situation. Including, I have lupus, on top of that.❤❤
@user-ck2wq8we4q sorry to hear that the one thing that I failed to mention is I have Multiple Sclerosis RLR 2. Lupus must play total hell with you then.
It's more likely from perfumes and colognes. Get rid of all scents in your house. Fast with springwater only for 3-10 days.
I told my doctor about my early symptoms multiple times, years ago.
He said, I might have an allergy and sent me home.
Now its too late.
At age 80 I have COPD but now I have something as bad: blood in urine.
I've smoked for 40 years now and although I get very breathless on any exertion, I have never had a cough. I've noticed the last few weeks that after each cigarette I have wheezing which is a new symptom. Currently undiagnosed but assume I have copd.
Go and see a doctor luv
Hi i would like know what is COPD i am also asthmatic an still smoking and yes you can use perfume 😮😢
Can you have a normal spirometry test in the early stages of copd. Had a normal spirometry six months ago, then had two bad chest infections which lasted a couple of weeks each. Since then have been having random episodes of breathlessness and chest tightness. Peak flow test was low while I had the chest infections but is ok now. Gp suspects I have copd. Have medication to take but feel reluctant to start the treatment in case it’s just the effects of the chest infections that have made my lungs sensitive or maybe I’ve developed ashma.
I know you can have breathing problems even if you don't have copd. I passed on PFT but I still ache and have tightness when breathing. they mentioned possible copd. I'd say you can pass your PFT and have copd still.
Tired very tired
I have severe copd and enjoyed smoking, i now dont have a life, am on my own, gets very lonely as family just look upon me as a slow burden to there life, rather than help me live a good life still, i am only 49yrs old & dont get out of house much, so my friends is my 4 walls of home, youtube.
I was diagnosed at 25. I am almost 27 now, I am going back for a control next week. I started running since my last control though, I am curious if my results will be better now
Hey I'm 25 and just diagnosed, have you noticed any decline in the last 2 years or has everything more or lest halted or slowed down?
@@andrewphilip4963 hope she answers you, brother....id like to know myself too....im 47...i smoked off and on from 14 to 32...the longest i quit for was a year one time and 2 years another time, so i guess i smoked for a total of 13 years....i quit 14 years ago and havent had any problems. In fact, i was quite athletic up til 5 months ago..i hiked 16 miles 3x a week, mountain biked, worked on the farm, gardening etc..then all of a sudden this chest pressure, shortness of breath and cough started... I actually make myself cough because it somehow feels like it loosens up the tightness in my chest, but it's not a productive cough. I don't have phlegm or anything. I passed my pulmonary function test although I fell a little bit short of the estimated level the machines algorithm predicted... I see a pulmonologists next tuesday and requesting a bronchoscopy as I also have some inflammation, mucus and tightness in my throat... By the way, all this stuff happened to me the same week all my family started testing positive for covid and became symptomatic, although I didn't get symptomatic covid. I just develop these weird symptoms...who knows what this is😔 Thanks for reading.....hope you see improvements at your next appointment!
@@PureExistence1 how are you doing now?
I get tired after excercise. Not during
I would say this is normal unless you're more fatigued than you used to be after exercise. Exercise has a lot of demands on the immune system.
So what if I’m having symptoms like this and a high dose inhaler doesn’t work? The symptoms are constant, any idea what it would be?
Been seeing a doctor and he’s not helping
Any news? I'm similar but they can't diagnose
@@LB-gr5se currently looking for a new doctor, and same they can’t figure out what’s wrong lol
I am 29 and I am going through testing for it tomorrow… apparently my grandma was diagnosed in her 30’s. I started smoking at 12 and my mom smoked maybe (probably) while pregnant with me. It’s so hard to quit, I can’t believe the way they peddle cigarettes to us younger and younger. I sometimes feel like since i was addicted to nicotine so young i didnt have much of a choice in this, i only smoked bc my parents did and i always really liked second hand smoke even as a little child. Been coughing up blood and now i am officially scared, yet somehow cant stop smoking…. I am trying. Hope they give me medicine to help me quit
Best of luck with your consultations, hope you get to the bottom of things
Hi I am at day 6 without a cigarette. Am missing them very much especially day 3. Going cold turkey. Diagnosed with asthma copd recent,y. Three hospital admissions since Christmas, gotta stop .
I've just read what you've wrote . My mom had Copd and I lost her in 2017 . I'm sending you my best wishes 🙏🏼.
I had a problem with chewing tobacco and smoking cigs. I was a chronic user of both for years. Try using nicotine pouches called Zyn. That's what I used to quit cold turkey. I'm still using Zyn, but it's far better than what I was going before.
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My dad had COPD,is it possible that I will have too? Is COPD hereditary?
answered your comment in a recent video i posted on my channel
I'm fifty was diagnosed last August. I quit smoking . Feeling much better with my medication.
My husband battled with COPD for years but I am glad right now that his condition swiftly changed positively as my husband can now breathe normal as every other person after undergoing COPD herbal remedies from ( Dr.Schneider Lon on youtube..
Hi christine, what medications?
I started running since i THOUGHT i was severely outa shape...Nope.. Got COPD. got my first PFT coming up in two weeks for verification..BUT the running helps me a great deal.
What an encouraging message. Just two days ago a MedCheck provider diagnosed me with a COPD exacerbation.
I’d had a temp of 100° to 103°F, stuffy nose, cough, headache, sore throat, nausea and vomiting. Symptoms were for 9 days.
As fever, nasal congestion, headache got better, the cough got worse and my oxygen went down to 87% to 93%. This is when I went to the MedCheck.
I’m a 48 year old two time cancer survivor and had radiation therapy to my left chest wall. Ever since I had developed intermittent wheezing in that left upper lobe. Also, I am a 30 pack year smoker.
When the MedCheck provider said she thought I had COPD (normal CXR that day and normal PFTs ~1 year ago), I immediately had a loss of hope. I felt like giving up. I was devastated. I’ve seen the progression of COPD to heart failure and death.
This video has given me hope. I think seeing a pulmonologist may not be a bad idea at this point. Thank you so very much for your kind and insightful approach.
My husband battled with COPD for years but I am glad right now that his condition swiftly changed positively as my husband can now breathe normal as every other person after undergoing COPD herbal remedies from ( Dr.Schneider Lon on youtube..
Anybody here at 21? Feel so fkn stupid. Did not realize that 6 years would give you irreversible lung damage
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Which age people are likely to get copd
usually after the age of 40, typically around 50-60
@@DrStefanCristianStanel i am 32
Can i develop copd
I am non smoker and having chronic dry cough with breathing problem
@@rahulsomaiya7818 did you have covid? Alot of ppl that were sick with covid are now testing positive for COPD. Hope your ok.
@@MichelleBezesky-zw8nm do you know if these were people who had an active lung involvement with covid-19? I didn't have active lung involvement. I didn't even have a cough, just a bad fever and chills and by day 5 I was ready to go hiking again. That was in November of 2021. However this last November 2022, I was exposed to all my family who came down with symptomatic covid. At the same time they were all testing positive, I started developing this chest pressure, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing and it's been going on for 6 months now.. I passed my pulmonary function test a little bit beneath the predicted level, but still everything seemed fine. I'm not coughing up any phlegm or anyting so I don't know what's going on. I see the pulmonologist on Tuesday and requesting a bronchoscope because I also have inflammation in my throat.
@@PureExistence1 did u ever get any results?
Thanks. So can we use colognes or parfumes during Asthama.
I personally believe anything can b healed ! 😊
Try healing from an amputation.
@@kennethsouthard6042 I was being extreme, hopefully u know what I meant.
@@brendandylanmaloney COPD is similar to amputation in that it is degenerative and cannot be reveresed.
@@kennethsouthard6042 how did u know I have c.o.p.d. ? Thats your reality, not mine ! Maybe u r correct but I would rather believe in miracles !
@@kennethsouthard6042 an amputation and a so called disease r absolutely 2 different things, absolutely terrible comparison !
Dr. Stefan outlined the following main symptoms that would make a doctor think someone might have COPD:
* Tiredness, especially when doing activities that you used to be able to do without getting tired.
* A cough that produces mucus (sputum) and that lasts for more than two weeks.
In addition to these two main symptoms, Dr. Stefan also mentioned that other symptoms of COPD can include:
* Wheezing.
* Chest tightness.
* Frequent respiratory infections, such as bronchitis and pneumonia.
* Lack of energy.
* Unintended weight loss.
* Swelling in ankles, feet, or legs.
If you have any of these symptoms, it is important to see your doctor to get a diagnosis and treatment. COPD is a serious condition, but it can be managed with medication and lifestyle changes.