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Male, age 58 at diagnosis 

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Describes how his coughing is worse when he's lying down.

Well if I get flat, and of course I have got a bed with lift now, but you tend to slide down, and if I'm lying flat then often I'll wake up probably breathless but maybe with a coughing attack. Coughing is a real problem for me when I'm flat. And I wake up also early in the morning, when I wake up 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 6 o'clock but I'll often to off to sleep again for a bit, but I'm always up by 7. Just to go to bed and have an interrupted nights sleep and wake up at 8 o'clock would be delicious, but it isn't happening, and we nearly two years in now, so I don't think it's going to come back.

 

 

 
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