COPD Symptoms. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Finally, a patient who suffers from the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may complain of the fingertips getting thicker. From the medical point of view, this phenomenon is called clubbing. The fingertips do not only get too thick; they curve over a little bit. At the initial stage of COPD, the patient may notice the thickened fingertips symptom in the nail bed. These places feel spongy and soft.