Pulmonary Fibrosis News Forums | PattyB | Activity https://pulmonaryfibrosisnews.com/forums/members/pattyb/activity/ Activity feed for PattyB. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:38:44 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.20.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 570aea0960c66d88eace126e012eccad PattyB replied to the discussion What portable oxygen concentrator do you recommend? in the forum Welcome Lounge https://pulmonaryfibrosisnews.com/forums/forums/topic/what-portable-oxygen-concentrator-do-you-recommend/#post-38636 Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:33:18 -0500 Reply to What portable oxygen concentrator do you recommend?

If you are only traveling sporadically, your oxygen supplier should be able to loan you one. I am on Medicare and they loan me one when I travel on planes or to higher altitudes. They have never charged me extra.

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Like others, my IPF is from autoimmune (scleroderma). I’ve had 4 rituximab infusions, first two were two weeks apart, then every six months since then. About a month before the last one I was feeling horrible, confusion, trouble concentrating, aches everywhere. Immediately after the infusion I felt like a different person. I actually felt good…

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