I just wrote up a whole post of suggested COPD support group sites & seemed to have lost it when trying to copy & past it to a new topic to make more sense. So i'm rather upset on another "glitch" I seemed to have found. Because of cutting & pasting this seems to be in all size of font. I am sorry but could not find a way to fix that; so please enlarge your font to a size you can read easily. 

Anyway, there have been several suggestions on sites we might be intersted in checking out & giving our opinion.

1. gwapo suggested "My COPD Team" @ https://www.mycopdteam.com/users/sign_in it seems like a rather active group & I haven't quite gotten the hang of the "team" part, but I have been going into the Q & A and have found a lot of good information. 

2. I suggested "Inspire" https://www.inspire.com/groups/ I do not like the format that well, but I do like several factors like; they have many groups for different conditions & seem to be very active. I joined it quite awhile back because I have Pulmonary fibrosis (PF) besides my COPD. DS PF site was very unactive, but inspires I found many people and a very active group that I got good information & support from. I hope the list showed up, becaus it is a site like DS (used to be) that you can join several groups/conditions. I have just found that on that site i can set my board to show current discussions in every group I have joined (they come up in order of when posted) or i can go into the group seperately. (I am not "touting this group---I just am trying to explain what i have found using it so far.

3. Great2beme suggested " COPDfoundation.org and their support group is COPD360social". I have had a hard time finding this; Tell me if i'm wrong but the link i found was; https://www.copdfoundation.org/COPD360social/Community/Blog.aspx for the copd360social & http://www.copdfoundation.org/ for the COPD foundation

4. An old group I used to go to was "COPD Support" @ http://copdforum.portalone.us/ it says it has 117 "active users" but not how many "lurkers" may be there. It seems to have freshly dated posts & has been around for a couple of years that I know of. Simple to use board with the front page having different topics to chose from ( like the old chat board days). 

5.Joany sent me a suggestion today of "COPD Online" @ http://copdonline.net/Forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=10 I have just glanced at it & not really checked it out yet. It also looks like the easy format of the old chat board days.

I have not had a chance to check all of these out to give my opinion, but also it's not my opinion that matters!

I am hoping we can all go look around and give feedback in this post of what we do or don't like.

OH! It was also suggested that; "  maybe there could be a new group there called COPD_DSescapees - something that would show up when you do a "COPD" search."

Anyway; Please give feedback on any sites you find that may be useful in us all finding a place to go. I think many of us feel the fear of losing track of our friends here on DS & that is keeping us here, but also many friends are leaving because of the anxiety it is causing. I am in no way direction anyone to use any certain group posted (i'm no leader LOL) and I hope people will continue to make suggestions of groups we can go to in this topic, until we find a place the majority of us can agree on. I don't want to lose "my friends" but i have been coming here less & less....and I see others coming less and less, so I do hope we can find somewhere to meet soon, before we lose track of each other.

Love to all my friends & aquiantences on this board. ((((HUGGS)))))