Guest guest Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 sorry to say - have had several chats with Lungnet, lung group here etc... seems for some odd reason that bronchitis is classified copd, but NOT bronchiectasis. What are they thinking?? joy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 Hi Joy I hope you are feeling better after your hospital stay. From my experience, bronch used to be closely aligned with asthma in Aus but now it is closely linked with CF. From my understanding, COPD seems to be mainly Emphysema, chronic bronchitis & probably others I don't know about. Keep well everyone. Theresa Subject: Re: bronch/copdTo: bronchiectasis Received: Thursday, 17 June, 2010, 4:50 AM sorry to say - have had several chats with Lungnet, lung group here etc... seems for some odd reason that bronchitis is classified copd, but NOT bronchiectasis. What are they thinking??joy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 23, 2010 Report Share Posted June 23, 2010 hi Theresa, after many discussions with CAPERS (pulm rehab here), Lungnet etc... yes, you're dead right. Crazy, how can bronchitis be COPD & not bronch for one thing, the other being why fund COPD to exclusion (almost) of non-copd?? Maybe we all could (in Aus) start pestering Lungnet and the govt to get their act together - or use anti-discrimination agencies...a possibility? cheers, joy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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