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Anybody know someone who has COPD?
My husband has it and its starting to get really hard for him to eat. Just eating makes him get out of breath bad enough that he stops eating. The last two days he's hardly eaten anything. And he gets upset really easy and that makes him not want to eat either. His has got so bad that I have to help him dress now or he gets really out of breath. He really has a hard time walking now too. We went to the doctor yesterday and he said he's the same as he was a year ago but I don't believe that because I'm having to do a lot more for him now than I used too. Three years ago he was walking without a walker and going places now he can't walk without a walker and when we go somewhere he has to be in his wheelchair. The jerking he has isn't helping either. I'll be glad when he goes to the eye doctor and he gives him the name of the medicine and the name of the disease he has thats causing the jerking. Does the person you know that has COPD get out of breath when they eat?
Last edited by gmyers; 04-21-2012 at 06:39 PM.
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04-21-2012 06:36 PM
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I worked on the ambulance for years and saw alot of patients with COPD.. because he's not as active, he's loosing muscle mass and so he's tiring easier... instead of eating "meals", maybe he needs to be more of a "grazer"... just make sure its healthy things he's grazing on... i know thats not much help.... but it may keep him from having to put out so much effort at a time to finish eating... also may talk to his dr about some physical therapy to help build the muscle back up.
also because he's short of breath all the time... the body will shut down any non essential and re route the oxygenated blood to the heart/lungs, and because they aren't getting the proper blood flow they loose some function.
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My Dad has it but he gets on oxygen when he gets even close to being that bad. Do you have an oximeter? He needs to keep an eye on his oxygen levels if he is in that bad of shape. My Dad has to do breathing treatments every night so that he doesn't have to use the oxygen. It sounds like your husband has something else going on besides the COPD. I wish you guys luck, and maybe a better doctor too.
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We ordered an oximeter off amazon today. I never thought they'd sell them there but they do. That should help keeping up with his oxygen level.
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if he's on oxygen at home, how long is his hose....and what is it set on?
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Its set on 2 and one hose is 25 ft because he has one of those machines that gets oxygen from the air in another bedroom because of the noise it makes and the other one hooked up to his oxygen tank is 7 feet.
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ok, for every 20 feet of hose, it cuts his oxygen in half..so he's really getting almost nothing when he's on that one... that could also be a reason he's tiring out. so when he gets really short of breath, go to the shorter hose and turn it up... the nurses won't tell you this because they can't turn it up without a dr's order. sucks but thats how it works. when we could get a call to a residence either by the family or by home health, thats the first thing we would do, shorten the hose and turn the oxygen up.. alot of times it would do the trick and the patient wouldn't let us take them to the hospital.
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My mother has it and she gets tired a lot, especially lately. She can still eat and as long as we take a lot of breaks she is able to do quite a bit still. Yesterday though she only lasted a 1/2 hour before she had to go home and sleep. I hate this disease 
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I hate it too. I never knew just how important the lungs are until he got COPD. You take it for granted till you see someone suffering like he does. Its a terrible disease.
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