Aging (not CF) decline in %FEV1 ??

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Juliet

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I'm a geek. I admit it. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I plotted up my FEV1% from all the PFT's I've had over the years. My first one was back in 1980 when I was a teenager. Over the last 3 decades I've gone down about 10% per decade (rough estimate).

When speaking with my doc at the CF clinic last week I asked him if he thought I could get my % back up to where they were in the 1980s. He said no, that people naturally loose some lung function as they age. He couldn't give me a # then and there. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (Poor doc to have to deal with me coming to clinic armed with plots and lists of questions...) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

Anyways, how much loss in FEV1% with age is typical for a non-CF person?

For those of you with milder forms of CF, how much % per decade has yours changed? I'm curious how much of my %FEV1 drop since 1980 can be (loosely) attributed to CF and how much due to the normal aging process?

~Juliet
 
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Juliet

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I'm a geek. I admit it. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I plotted up my FEV1% from all the PFT's I've had over the years. My first one was back in 1980 when I was a teenager. Over the last 3 decades I've gone down about 10% per decade (rough estimate).

When speaking with my doc at the CF clinic last week I asked him if he thought I could get my % back up to where they were in the 1980s. He said no, that people naturally loose some lung function as they age. He couldn't give me a # then and there. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (Poor doc to have to deal with me coming to clinic armed with plots and lists of questions...) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

Anyways, how much loss in FEV1% with age is typical for a non-CF person?

For those of you with milder forms of CF, how much % per decade has yours changed? I'm curious how much of my %FEV1 drop since 1980 can be (loosely) attributed to CF and how much due to the normal aging process?

~Juliet
 
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Juliet

New member
I'm a geek. I admit it. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I plotted up my FEV1% from all the PFT's I've had over the years. My first one was back in 1980 when I was a teenager. Over the last 3 decades I've gone down about 10% per decade (rough estimate).

When speaking with my doc at the CF clinic last week I asked him if he thought I could get my % back up to where they were in the 1980s. He said no, that people naturally loose some lung function as they age. He couldn't give me a # then and there. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (Poor doc to have to deal with me coming to clinic armed with plots and lists of questions...) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

Anyways, how much loss in FEV1% with age is typical for a non-CF person?

For those of you with milder forms of CF, how much % per decade has yours changed? I'm curious how much of my %FEV1 drop since 1980 can be (loosely) attributed to CF and how much due to the normal aging process?

~Juliet
 
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Juliet

New member
I'm a geek. I admit it. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I plotted up my FEV1% from all the PFT's I've had over the years. My first one was back in 1980 when I was a teenager. Over the last 3 decades I've gone down about 10% per decade (rough estimate).

When speaking with my doc at the CF clinic last week I asked him if he thought I could get my % back up to where they were in the 1980s. He said no, that people naturally loose some lung function as they age. He couldn't give me a # then and there. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (Poor doc to have to deal with me coming to clinic armed with plots and lists of questions...) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">

Anyways, how much loss in FEV1% with age is typical for a non-CF person?

For those of you with milder forms of CF, how much % per decade has yours changed? I'm curious how much of my %FEV1 drop since 1980 can be (loosely) attributed to CF and how much due to the normal aging process?

~Juliet
 
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Juliet

New member
I'm a geek. I admit it. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I plotted up my FEV1% from all the PFT's I've had over the years. My first one was back in 1980 when I was a teenager. Over the last 3 decades I've gone down about 10% per decade (rough estimate).
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<br />When speaking with my doc at the CF clinic last week I asked him if he thought I could get my % back up to where they were in the 1980s. He said no, that people naturally loose some lung function as they age. He couldn't give me a # then and there. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> (Poor doc to have to deal with me coming to clinic armed with plots and lists of questions...) <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0">
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<br />Anyways, how much loss in FEV1% with age is typical for a non-CF person?
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<br />For those of you with milder forms of CF, how much % per decade has yours changed? I'm curious how much of my %FEV1 drop since 1980 can be (loosely) attributed to CF and how much due to the normal aging process?
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<br />~Juliet
 
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Skye

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you sound like me....armed with questions and statistics and trying to make sense of all the numbers and calculate different things<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I don't know what a typical person loses, sorry. My doc always quotes an average loss per year of 4% for CFers. So that puts me at negative 160% for my FEV1. Wow....glad I don't line up with those stats<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> Keep asking those questions....so glad you are here with a correct diagnosis for yourself and getting answers you need.
 
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Skye

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you sound like me....armed with questions and statistics and trying to make sense of all the numbers and calculate different things<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I don't know what a typical person loses, sorry. My doc always quotes an average loss per year of 4% for CFers. So that puts me at negative 160% for my FEV1. Wow....glad I don't line up with those stats<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> Keep asking those questions....so glad you are here with a correct diagnosis for yourself and getting answers you need.
 
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Skye

New member
you sound like me....armed with questions and statistics and trying to make sense of all the numbers and calculate different things<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I don't know what a typical person loses, sorry. My doc always quotes an average loss per year of 4% for CFers. So that puts me at negative 160% for my FEV1. Wow....glad I don't line up with those stats<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> Keep asking those questions....so glad you are here with a correct diagnosis for yourself and getting answers you need.
 
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Skye

New member
you sound like me....armed with questions and statistics and trying to make sense of all the numbers and calculate different things<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I don't know what a typical person loses, sorry. My doc always quotes an average loss per year of 4% for CFers. So that puts me at negative 160% for my FEV1. Wow....glad I don't line up with those stats<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> Keep asking those questions....so glad you are here with a correct diagnosis for yourself and getting answers you need.
 
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Skye

New member
you sound like me....armed with questions and statistics and trying to make sense of all the numbers and calculate different things<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> I don't know what a typical person loses, sorry. My doc always quotes an average loss per year of 4% for CFers. So that puts me at negative 160% for my FEV1. Wow....glad I don't line up with those stats<img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0"> Keep asking those questions....so glad you are here with a correct diagnosis for yourself and getting answers you need.
 
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NoExcuses

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i LOVE that you ask those questions. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

i don't have the answer but you are starting to to make me a huge juliet fan <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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NoExcuses

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i LOVE that you ask those questions. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

i don't have the answer but you are starting to to make me a huge juliet fan <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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NoExcuses

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i LOVE that you ask those questions. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

i don't have the answer but you are starting to to make me a huge juliet fan <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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NoExcuses

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i LOVE that you ask those questions. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">

i don't have the answer but you are starting to to make me a huge juliet fan <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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NoExcuses

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i LOVE that you ask those questions. <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
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<br />i don't have the answer but you are starting to to make me a huge juliet fan <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif" border="0">
 
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AnD

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Here's my late night 2 cents worth, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> . I would think that (hypothetically, of course!) that you could get your percentages up to "normal" (if you had no lung damage, etc. etc....) but just not your liters, since the pft's take your age in consideration, and give you a percent based on where a "normal" person your age would be. If you look, you'll probably notice that the "predicted" numbers (liters) have gone down through the years too, however slightly. That might give you a normal person's percentage drop, if you're better in math than I am, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> .

Does that make sense?
 
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AnD

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Here's my late night 2 cents worth, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> . I would think that (hypothetically, of course!) that you could get your percentages up to "normal" (if you had no lung damage, etc. etc....) but just not your liters, since the pft's take your age in consideration, and give you a percent based on where a "normal" person your age would be. If you look, you'll probably notice that the "predicted" numbers (liters) have gone down through the years too, however slightly. That might give you a normal person's percentage drop, if you're better in math than I am, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> .

Does that make sense?
 
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AnD

New member
Here's my late night 2 cents worth, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> . I would think that (hypothetically, of course!) that you could get your percentages up to "normal" (if you had no lung damage, etc. etc....) but just not your liters, since the pft's take your age in consideration, and give you a percent based on where a "normal" person your age would be. If you look, you'll probably notice that the "predicted" numbers (liters) have gone down through the years too, however slightly. That might give you a normal person's percentage drop, if you're better in math than I am, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> .

Does that make sense?
 
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AnD

New member
Here's my late night 2 cents worth, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> . I would think that (hypothetically, of course!) that you could get your percentages up to "normal" (if you had no lung damage, etc. etc....) but just not your liters, since the pft's take your age in consideration, and give you a percent based on where a "normal" person your age would be. If you look, you'll probably notice that the "predicted" numbers (liters) have gone down through the years too, however slightly. That might give you a normal person's percentage drop, if you're better in math than I am, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> .

Does that make sense?
 
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AnD

New member
Here's my late night 2 cents worth, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> . I would think that (hypothetically, of course!) that you could get your percentages up to "normal" (if you had no lung damage, etc. etc....) but just not your liters, since the pft's take your age in consideration, and give you a percent based on where a "normal" person your age would be. If you look, you'll probably notice that the "predicted" numbers (liters) have gone down through the years too, however slightly. That might give you a normal person's percentage drop, if you're better in math than I am, lol <img src="i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif" border="0"> .
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<br /> Does that make sense?
 
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