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I was diagnosed with COPD (emphysema) in 2000. I went on oxygen just at night a couple of years later. I got invasive aspergillosis in my lungs and cellulitis and sepsis in my legs. I was really sick. I was in and out of the hospital and then rehab in a nursing home. I think it was in 2019 that they sent me home with oxygen 24/7. I think it must have around that time that they put on Trelegy. For me it was a miracle. I stopped having crashes and trips to the hospitals. I have been the hospital one time since 2019 and then only 2 nights. Your emphysema must have been much worse than mine when you diagnosed to have started on oxygen that quick. Right now I am on 2 Ltr when just sitting and 3=when moving around. I now have a lot of trouble breathing when I walk. I use a walker just to carry my purse and portable oxygen. I can walk fine but if I carry things i have much more trouble breathing. I have done Pulumary rehab for years. They say that will help keep your lungs expanded but I think as my disease progresses. nothing is going to stop it from getting bad. I wish you well. I think what makes me the most upset is the fact I caused this myself. Best of luck and as to oxygen level I have 4 oxymeters and they all read different so mine runs between 86 to 92. P

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Do not blame yourself for this. It was a well known fact that the tobacco companies suppressed information . I see how the authorities finally sued them and made them pay . . I am not sure where the monies went from the tobacco fines and government suits. It is obvious that there is no fund to help the people that are afflicted with the results . We are to fight insurance plans for help to pay medical costs to help us feel better . We cannot buy a cure . I am resigned to dying from emphysema. I lose, I think , a total of 10 years or so . The thing that bothers me about it, is that this fatal , no cure disease , took away my ability to fulfill the
things I could do . My mind still thinks like I have 10 years . Then , reality sets in and crushes the thought . So my dreams are crushed over and over. Blessed Be, Crystalena