Finding Comfort in Community

Join a Support Group

Support groups can be a powerful way for patients, caregivers, families, and friends to connect with the chronic cough community. They offer a safe space to share, learn, and feel supported.

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Emotional Support: Support groups offer a safe space for open conversations about the emotional challenges that come with your diagnosis.

Find your Voice: Connecting with others who are on a similar journey may help you feel more comfortable discussing your diagnosis, making it easier to ask questions, share concerns, and advocate for your needs.

Expand Knowledge: Listening to the experiences and insights of other members broadens your understanding of your diagnosis and potential therapeutic options.

Connect with a Patient Advocacy Group

Patient advocacy groups are here to help. They focus on educating and supporting patients, raising awareness, improving care, and advancing research.

Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation (PFF)

PF Warriors

Breathe Support Network

Wescoe Foundation for Pulmonary Fibrosis

Valuable Resources: Patient advocacy groups offer education, emotional support and practical resources like seminars, counseling and materials.

Raise Awareness: Patient advisory groups raise awareness about chronic cough in IPF and non-IPF ILD to bring the needs of patients into focus and help secure funding for new treatments.

Improve Care: Patient advocacy groups help drive research into chronic cough in IPF and non-IPF ILD to ensure better access to quality care for all patients.

Champions of Chronic Cough

Living with chronic cough is a daily fight and a testament to the strength of this community.

“I was a professor of nutrition at 2 local colleges. I had to stop because I couldn’t get through a whole class without having a coughing spell. It was just too annoying, so I guess bothersome would be the word.”

— US Female, Patient with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

“The part I hate is, it hasn’t happened recently, like I said, but if I was out with my friends at lunch, and someone told a funny story, and I love to laugh, if I start to laugh, I cough so hard I pass out. And it had happened with my friends, and it was really frightening for everyone. And so, the joke became, don’t tell funny stories around me, because we don’t want her to pass out.”

— Cheri, US Patient with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

“It is the thing that put me over the edge with disability. I couldn’t work; I had to get a car placard because I’m afraid I can’t walk. If the cough went away, I feel like I could walk, you know, I am not to point with the long shortness of breath, it’s the cough.”

— US Female, Patient with Non-IPF ILD

*Quotes are from patients who were compensated for their participation in a patient advisory board.

If you are battling chronic cough, you too, are a champion.

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