Can Sarcoidosis Cause COPD?
Q. I was a pack a day smoker and in 1997 I joined the Boy Scout Leaders Program to help out with my son’s troop. One of the stipulations was you can not smoke around the scouts, I quit 01/01/1997. Have not smoked a cigarette since and I did not have to go off and hide from scouts to smoke. I also have two great Eagle Scouts now too. But, ten years later I ended up in the hospital with pneumonia and congestive heart failure. Tests were run, like the Pulmonary Function Test and I was diagnosed with COPD with emphysema. When I smoked I never had the smokers cough, I never had any lung problems other than some upper respiratory infections and ear infections, but now I have emphysema. I thought the longer you got away from that quit date the healthier your lungs would get and even one day be like you never smoked. That really confused me and my wife, but to make it even worse, I had a biopsy and bronchial wash done and the biopsy came back with a diagnoses of sarcoidosis of the lungs. So no
