Living with COPD: ‘I struggle to get up a flight of stairs and suffer frequent panic attacks’ 🔴 Katy Brown tells PMGallagher1 of the fight she had to embark on to finally get the treatment that is helping her cope
Katy Brown’s mother died from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease before she got her own diagnosis. She tells Paul Gallagher of the fight she had to embark on to finally get the treatment that is helping her cope
I was just exhausted all the time. I was given the CPAP machine, which helps you sleep at night, but I was still exhausted during the day. Then I began to notice I was stopping breathing during the day as well. There was nothing that would trigger it. I was having real problems catching a breath, even. I was stretching my chest, arching my back, all that sort of thing trying to get air.
Finally in February 2021, I managed to speak to a respiratory nurse over the phone who confirmed my diagnosis in a very offhand way but because we were in the midst of the pandemic and therefore they couldn’t do a spirometry test to check on the state of my lungs. Instead, they prescribed me some medication and if it works that will tell if I have COPD.
I’d known about the rehab through my mum, but hers seemed to be given when she had a flare up and was in hospital. So I thought you had to be really, really bad to get onto that kind of programme, and I hadn’t been. I was still a little bit confused as to what was going on so my GP, who is very switched, said she would refer me to the respiratory consultant, because if it’s not COPD, what is it? It was time to get to the bottom of it. So I went on the waiting list and told it’s going to be at least a year before I’m seen.
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