Your Signal
COPD
11 min read
Also known as: COPD · chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · smoker's lung · chronic bronchitis · pulmonary emphysema · airway obstruction · smoker's cough · shortness of breath · lung hyperinflation · chronic breathlessness
Your Body Is Speaking
The air gets stuck. Not like an asthma attack that comes on suddenly and then passes — but permanently. Creeping. For years. Your lungs have lost capacity, piece by piece, like a house where room after room is locked shut until you're living in just one single space. Climbing stairs becomes an effort. A walk that once went without saying now requires pauses. The breath that used to flow deep and effortless has become shallow, rattling, tight.
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