Hi everyone,
I was diagnosed with mild emphysema in 2019 with a FEV1 of, 85%.
I haven’t had Covid as yet thank goodness, although I have experienced some air trapping which they found after doing a chest x-ray when I had a sore throat that wouldn’t go away.
This was in 2022, and they gave me a steroid inhaler and then done CT scan a month later, and it was gone.
Moving forward two months later, I started experiencing the feeling of air trapping and I spoke to my lung specialist who has put me on Spiolto Respimat.
I re-done my spirometry tests, and the only change is my FEV1 has fallen to 79%
Has anyone used medication as I am finding it’s making things worse in the sense of, I find it a little bit difficult to breathe.
I’m a bit disappointed as I quit smoking as soon as I was diagnosed and I was only 38 years old and was advised by the lung specialist that it would not progress. As long as I didn’t smoke or be around anything that irritates the lungs.
Sorry for all the different questions and statements, but any feedback would be fantastic as I am sincerely concerned