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Originally Posted by NoMansLands
If you can do that elevation with copd, then that gives me hope after smoking for decades. I've often thought that the humid rainy weather I live in contributes to my sinuses acting up.
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Not sure how high of an elevation I can take, but I smoked 3 packs a day for more than a decade of the 30+ years I smoked (quit a little over 22 years ago) and haven't had a problem breathing in New Mexico yet. I'm living in Alamogordo, which is the highest elevation I've lived for any length of time. But I spent a few days in the Rockies, did a little bit of trail climbing in NM on one of my previous trips, go to Cloudcroft fairly often and drove through the Devil's Highway (US491, used to be US666, for a good reason I'm certain after driving it once) which gets to 7000 feet. None of that bothered me, though I did get a little winded doing the steep trail. But that was due to climbing exertion since a short rest and I was OK again. Also in the Air Force I was sometimes deployed to mountains that were a few thousand feet.
BTW I moved out of Missouri. The humidity was tearing my sinuses up. They aren't perfect here, but they're a whoooooooooole lot better than they were. Still get a little stuffy, but I've only had one nosebleed here when I used to have an average one a day before. Doesn't work that well for everybody, but it might for you.
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