You may not experience many COPD symptoms, or at least not severe enough to affect your daily activities. Most days are good, but you cough regularly and get tired easily.

COPD symptoms affect your life regularly. You have some good days, but you get breathless easily and cough up phlegm regularly. You have 1 or 2 exacerbations each year.

Your symptoms regularly prevent you from doing things you want to do. Regular day-to-day activities like getting dressed are tiring. You don’t feel in control of your chest problem.

You never have any good days. It takes you a long time to complete even the simplest tasks. You feel like you can’t even leave the house.