Usually for breakfast I eat an entire soup pot of porridge.

Everyone is different, but when I first found out I had Emphysema, the stress and anxiety made me not want to eat as usual. I really think your appetite will pick back up once you have adjusted to the idea of your being able to deal with your illness. We've all gone through it. It gets easier to accept......honest!

Spot on! Not to fret...

Yeah. I figure you're right.

I always have trouble eating when I am under stress. Same with sleeping. Be patient with yourself and just take one day at a time rather than project all of your worries over the next few years. That's what they told me to do when my husband died from cancer and I got sick of hearing "One day at a time" but it finally became my mantra.

We think we are problem solving when we worry and fret but we usually find that most of what we feared would happen never did. But it takes time and stay in touch. This group is always here to listen, help and to ask for advice too.

Hugs, Cindy

Hey Zig, ya want issues huh??? How about having Parkinson's Disease since 1976, and end stage emphysema Dx'd in 2010, which means I had it a lot longer than just from when * was dx'd! When they found it, they found that it had destroyed all of the insides of my right lung, and a good portion of the insides of my left lung.


and you re having issues already? Wanna trade? Once the shock of your DX wears off, you will realize how silly your post above is.

Now, pull up a chair, grab a beer, and relax with the rest of us. You're gonna be here a lot longer than you now think you are!

Take me for example ..... when I was dx'd in 2010 the two docs I had told me that "at best all I had was 2-1/2 years max lifetime remaining". That means I should have died sometime in mid 2012. I'm still here. approaching mid-2014!

Like I said above, so will you too! Don't let your illness, whatever it may be, define who you are. Turn the tables and YOU define your COPD! Jim

Amen Jim, Well said. Ken you are making yourself sicker by worrying how sick you are. Give it a rest honey....Find out what stage you are in, and we will go from there. But remember, it is just numbers, just a study, not carved in stone, so take a chill pill with that beer and get a god pulmonary doctor and get you a personal therapy plan worked out and we will help you thru it. You are OK Ken, people with this disease have lived long fruitful years, so lets take it one day at a time,
BJ

Yeah. I've thought this myself. I'm the same guy I was the day before that dr appointment. If I got a bug, or what ever I'd just think I'd picked up a bug. He gave me a diagnosis one caught accidentally, not cast a spell on me. Lol.. Well, I guess I'm a bit of a nutter right now. Hyper body aware. This is a good lesson. I'm going to go on with my life just as before as if nothing has happened, just as a non smoker.

Beer? Did I hear beer? Make mine a R&C and I'm in. Beer gives me intolerable headache but Rum is the nectar of the gods as the saying goes.

Dear Zig - Got to disagree with you my friend. R&C is not the nectar of the Gods but good Canadian blended whiskey with a dash of ginger ale and a dash of soda plus a lemon wedge willl make me dance even if I have to use my o2 bottle as a partner - LOL - Ruthie

Did someone say whiskey? Its got to be a good Irish whiskey! On the rocks! But back to your worry...its normal to eat less during stress. I eat next to nothing when I'm worried (like about family etc). But when I'm stressed about school I eat everything. I have asthma but my dad has copd and his appetite ebbs and flows too...one day a big meal the next he eats very light.

Last but not least, keep calm and carry on! The stress will cause more illness...trust me I know! I've been so stressed as to cause actual physical illness. Deep breathing and yoga stretches before bed help me. Take care!! Keep us posted!!

Whiskey? Canadian whiskey? Well you're talking to the right lad here because I just so happen to be Canadian. We've got the luschious amber liquid by the mile. Now the old Irish, granted has it's value but too much and you'll start to speak in a slurred brogue which won't do on this side o the pond. The Canadian whiskey just makes you polite and makes you open doors for people and say things like "you first eh?" and being Canadian I already do that.