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I too am a non smoker in my forties diagnosed with COPD. I've suffered from Asthma since I was a toddler and I breathed a lot of second hand smoke from family members. Parents weren't educated back then like they are today. Yet, I see so many parents knowingly subjecting their kids to what could later become the fourth leading cause of death in the United States.

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I would like to know what the real cause of COPD is. I have never smoked and I was just diagnosised with COPD with some mild lung damage. Right now with all of my medical problems they do not know how to treat my COPD without making the other problems worse. Many help would be apprectioned....

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want to know if one does better or as well on advair disc 500 or something cheaper?

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I am a 39 yr old Female whom has been in the admitted to the Hospital 2x since Feb,2007! The first time they told me I had Pneumonia/Asthma/Chronic Bronchitis! This time I got so sick I couldn't spaek without PAIN in my chest, it felt as though someone was sitting on me and sticking a knife in my chest when I tried to breathe. My oxygen level was down to 81% so my Lung Specialist put me in ICU this time, I just got out last week, Now they are saying I have "NODULES" and COPD....I have only smoked for 6 yrs, I never tasted a cigarette till I was almost 33 yrs old. They want to blame it all on that, but I was getting BRONCHITIS ALOT., long before I ever started smoking, so who knows...I am on the Nebulizer with Albuterol every 4hours & use the SYMBICORT inhaler every 12 hours,with Prednisone. I do not believe that ONLY CIGS has caused my condition, I worked in a plant for yrs that at one time was closed for a week for ASBESTOS CLEAN-UP, My Grandfather died of Emphysema in 1999. I was holding his hand as he drew his last breath, however he had worked in mills all his life all over the world even in Africa putting machinery in these places and he told me he couldn't blame all his condition on CIGS, I think to a certain degree we are doomed to have whatever GOD has meant for us to have before we were even born, I have always had "WEAK LUNGS" (Anyone else got a similar story?) (Feeling All Alone) ..Paulette from S.C. Sept.27,2008

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On your check list under respiratory, the only choice for me was chronic bronchitis/emphysema. What I actually have in final stage COPD due to toxic fumes inhalation. Lung capacity is 18%

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God bless up...

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God bless us all that are dealing with COPD. I was also diagnosed with COPD 2 years ago after the doctor was looking over xrays and said that I had a lot of scaring. I never smoked so the only thing that I can contribute getting this is from the chronic asthma/bronchitis that I have been battling for over 25 years. I too at one time inhaled some toxic fumes from pesticides that were sprayed at my work place. I sued the company but the little money I won does not amount to the suffering I have endured for more than half of my life!

I am on every medicition know to man: Spiriva, Albuterol in the nebulizer, Symbicort, Asthmanex, Xolair (a shot given by the doctor every 4 weeks very expensive) and Prednisone which it seems I am on one a month for at least 2-3 weeks at a time. Unfortunatly it is the only drug that seems to work when I cannot breathe, which lately is becoming more and more. My doctor is suggesting a lung transplant. He had 2 of his patients do this and it really helped to change their quality of life. i am not at that point yet, but may have to go down that path in the future.