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Post a new topicby livingwith on Thu Feb 26, 2009 1:08 pm

I was diagnosed with COPD when I was 18 years old after both my lungs collapsed.I am now 20 and often have a hard time doing normal college things because of my symptoms. I was never a smoker but when people hear “emphysema” or “COPD” they often assume it was something you did to yourself.
My father smoked when I was a child but not around me so much. I have also had severe asthma since infancy. I am scared sometimes that I will be on an oxygen tank before I am thirty. T...Read the full article
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