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Justice · 06-08-2007, 11:36 AM

With the COPD diagnosis on January 11th,2007,I went to my Dr.,and asked him to test me for it,and without any tests at all,he just said to me that I do have it,and that I have for many years,ever since he diagnosed me with Chronic Bronchitis when I was about 23-24 yrs.old,now I'm 1 month away from being 34 yrs.old.So he basically told me I've had it for about 10 years but he's never treated me for it,he just gave me the inhalers I needed for my Asthma,he said that Asthma,and Chronic bronchitis is the same thing as COPD,that chronic bronchitis is a stage of COPD,and that the next stage is Emphesema,and that if I don't quit smoking I might just get it,and it will kill me! But he said he thought I already knew I had it! I asked him why he never told me over all these years,he just said he never really thought about it,he just assumed I knew.
So he never ran any tests,even when I was diagnosed with chronic bronchitis,it was a chest x-ray that was done to diagnose that,and the fact that it would'nt go away,even with anti-biotics,I only get pneumonia,never just bronchitis.I get pneumonia about 3-4 times a year!