My lungs docs have conferred and agreed that I need to try adding SOMETHING to help reduce my COPD exacerbations. I have been having 1-6/year except during the years we hibernated due to COVID. Additionally, I have chronic asthma and allergies and high eosinophil levels. I am hoping it will work well for me without making my dry eyes worse. I have had dry eyes since I turned 40 and had to stop wearing contact lenses. I have had to stop taking the higher dose Spiriva (tiotropium bronide) and switch to the lower asthma dose because the higher dose caused me to have painfully dry eyes and mouth—5 cavities in 6 months!

Anyway, I believe my doc will start me on this as soon as he can get my pre-authorization approved for it. He originally wanted to try starting me on Fasenra but the other lung doc that also consults on my case highly recommended Dupixent because it is approved for Asthma/COPD/high eosinophil and also is supposed to help improved lung function and reduce frequency and severity of exacerbations.
I understand it’s an auto-injection, similar to Epi-pens but needs to be taken every 2 weeks. (My local lung doc was attracted to Fasenra because it only needs to be taken every 8 weeks after initial shorts. It didn’t show improvement for COPD, so my other lung doc said it was her last choice.)