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15.11.2022 - 18:35 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots woman who was forced to give up her job and use a mobility scooter due to a chronic lung condition has called for lung health to be taken more seriously after it took doctors six years to diagnose her. Vivienne Gaynor repeatedly complained about her declining health, but her shortness of breath and recurring chest infections were put down to asthma.
The 60-year-old, from Edinburgh, was eventually diagnosed with deadly lung disease chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) after years of repeated trips to her GP. She was informed of the diagnosis in 2013 over the phone and had to google what the condition was.
Vivienne is now backing calls from campaigners for better respiratory care in Scotland after a new report revealed one in five people wait more than four years to be diagnosed with COPD, whilst one in eight waited more than a decade.
She said: "I didn't have many health issues up until the time I was diagnosed with asthma at 45. My daughter has childhood asthma and my gran had asthma all her life so they thought it was hereditary condition.
"After a while my breathing started to get worse, I was wheezing and had an even worse cough. I was constantly breathless. I struggled just to get up the stairs, and was always tired.
"I kept going to the doctor and saying my inhaler wasn't working but they kept putting everything down to my asthma and told me to keep using my inhalers. They eventually sent me for a chest X-ray and I received a phone call to say I had COPD and to go to the chemist and collect an inhaler.
"It took me six years to get that diagnosis and I was relieved but I was totally unaware of what COPD was. It was scary to find out I had a degenerative condition affecting my lungs."
Vivienne
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