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Bring the full picture of your breathing. Leave with a clear plan.
General guidance to help you make the most of your visit. Not a substitute for medical advice.
COPD, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, is managed over time, and your own tracking is part of that. Clear notes on your breathing and flare-ups help each visit build on the last.
Track your breathing day to day, how far you can walk before getting winded, and how often you use a rescue inhaler. Note any flare-ups, changes in mucus, and nights when sleep was disrupted.
Bring your full medication and inhaler list with how you use each one, plus any recent infections or hospital visits. Note your smoking history and any exposures at home or work.
Expect your doctor to review your symptoms, check your breathing, and go over your inhaler technique and results from any lung function tests. Share your notes so nothing about your flare-ups is missed.
Take notes as the doctor talks, record the meeting (with their permission!) in myStoria, or add a quick voice note to myStoria as soon as possible afterward so that you are not relying on memory alone.
Before you leave the clinic, ask for copies of anything from the visit, like lab results, assessments, or referrals, and upload them to myStoria to keep your history complete. (If you aren't able to get copies, connect with Concierge and we can help you source them!)
Stick with your daily medications and keep tracking your breathing and rescue-inhaler use. A written action plan helps you catch a flare-up early and know what to do.
If you are more breathless than usual, your mucus changes color or amount, or a rescue inhaler is not helping, follow your action plan and seek care promptly.
myStoria keeps your symptom history, medications, and questions together, so you walk into each appointment ready and pick up cleanly at the next one. When you want guidance between visits, you can schedule a video consult in advance with a member of our team, several of whom are nurses.
This page offers general information to help you prepare for and follow up on your COPD appointment. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have severe shortness of breath, chest pain, blue lips or fingertips, or confusion, seek emergency care. myStoria video consults are scheduled in advance.
