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People like you, talking about their experience with chronic respiratory conditions.

Life Effects Respiratory: Patient Stories and Support

Read stories from people who live with and manage asthma, COPD, or cystic fibrosis (CF). Each story gives a first-person account of living with a chronic respiratory condition, from diagnosis to coping with daily symptoms.

83 Respiratory Patient Stories

Tim’s Top Tips for Mental Resilience with Cystic Fibrosis
1 min 10 secs
video
Tim Wotton

Tim’s Top Tips for Mental Resilience with Cystic Fibrosis

Moving to a New Home the Asthma-Friendly Way
4 mins
article
Beki Tovey

Moving to a New Home the Asthma-Friendly Way

Safely Exercising with Asthma during Pregnancy
5 mins
article
Beki Tovey

Safely Exercising with Asthma during Pregnancy

3 Daily Habits that Help Me Manage Cystic Fibrosis
6 mins
article
Tim Wotton

3 Daily Habits that Help Me Manage Cystic Fibrosis

3 Things Mindfulness Changed about Living with Asthma
4 mins
article
Cróna Tansey

3 Things Mindfulness Changed about Living with Asthma

Winning at the Workplace, Despite Cystic Fibrosis
4 mins
article
Tim Wotton

Winning at the Workplace, Despite Cystic Fibrosis

5 Tips for Trying to Conceive When You Have Asthma
3 mins
article
Michelle Rivas

5 Tips for Trying to Conceive When You Have Asthma

Why Asthma Has More Links to Emotion than You Think
4 mins
article
Cróna Tansey

Why Asthma Has More Links to Emotion than You Think

Finances, Fumes, and Frost: 3 Ways Asthma Affects My Life
6 mins
article
Cróna Tansey

Finances, Fumes, and Frost: 3 Ways Asthma Affects My Life

5 Mid-Year Goals for a Happier Life with Asthma
7 mins
article
Beki Tovey

5 Mid-Year Goals for a Happier Life with Asthma

When Asthma and Wanderlust Go Head to Head
5 mins
article
Cróna Tansey

When Asthma and Wanderlust Go Head to Head

5 Tips for Better Asthma Control
4 mins
article
John Bottrell

5 Tips for Better Asthma Control

4 Ways to Help a Loved One with Asthma
5 mins
article
Kamilah Howard

4 Ways to Help a Loved One with Asthma

8 Tips to Help Your Kids with Asthma “Fit in”
4 mins
article
John Bottrell

8 Tips to Help Your Kids with Asthma “Fit in”

Growing Up with Asthma (and Bullies)
4 mins
article
John Bottrell

Growing Up with Asthma (and Bullies)

COPD, Mental Health, COVID-19 and Me
4 mins
article
Steven Hudson

COPD, Mental Health, COVID-19 and Me

About Life Effects

Living with one or more chronic conditions affects your life in so many ways. The only people who really know what you are going through are those who have faced the same challenges for years. With that in mind we have created Life Effects, an initiative shaped by patients, for patients.

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