A woman from Swansea struggled to breathe for years before being diagnosed with COPD. Pauline Williams, 70, was diagnosed with COPD in 2014. It took a long time for her to get a diagnosis and she is telling her story ahead of world COPD day on November 16 to try and raise awareness.
Delays of this length can result in people with COPD, an incurable condition which causes severe breathlessness and affects around 76,000 people in the Wales, losing lung function. This leads to extreme breathlessness and difficulties performing everyday tasks like walking to the shops, housework, and socialising. Late diagnosis means people are living with a poorer quality of life and are much more likely to have life-threatening flare-ups of the disease.
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