... Hi there. I had lung surgery about three months ago. I feel fully recovered, however had a dry cough for 9 weeks following surgery... ... (2 replies)
... recovery from a surgery which was done to remove a cyst behind my heart. ... (0 replies)
... For nine months I did not do anything for it. In other words, I lived through the pain and never saw a healthcare professional until nine months after the first time I experienced the pain of the collapsed lung. ... (0 replies)
... Oh, forgot to ask if you had a major cold with cough before your collapse? ... (6 replies)
... I don't have an answer but saw your post and I have the same trouble but this happened after a total esophagectomy and stomach pull up. They tell me now that it is from damage to my right lung after radiation and surgery for esophageal cancer. ... (2 replies)
... On May 21 of this year I was diagnosed with lung cancer. I had gone to the doctor mainly for fatigue and a cough that I had endured for a long time. After having a blood test I was told I had anemia. ... (9 replies)
... You will either be relieved to find you have healthy lungs, or get treatment for early lung problems. ... (5 replies)
... denial, I call it faith, until you know FOR SURE its cancer, don't tell me it is ". He just sort of gave me this look like, Yup, she's in denial. Anyway the day after surgery he came in my room and said "You know, this is the first time in my career I was glad to be wrong", and frankley SO WAS I! ... (7 replies)
... My Mother was diagnosed with ILD, I think back in Oct. They had found a tumor on her left lung and did some breathing test to see if she was fit for surgery, the surgeon said "no way". ... (50 replies)
... Your welcome. Yes I KNOW all to well what we can find on the internet. I researched lung cancer extensivley myself when mine was found. ... (16 replies)
... whatever I had was just a little infection, and I have just begun more treatment with Biaxin today to sese if it will help me again. This cough and these worsened breathing problems feel a whole lot like what I had months ago, and part of me is scared that it may be being caused by a blood clot. ... (4 replies)
... HI All, I was on 3 antibiotics for 18 months. My lung scans were stable for about 2 and a half years. Five months ago my scan showed new nodules and I was told the MAC was back and it would be watched. ... (45 replies)
... I still experience sharp pains in that area of the chest and it has been 6 years since the last surgery. Both times they had to put chest tubes in me to get the lung to reinflate. Is the pain in the area where the tubes were? ... (2 replies)
... ct pulmonary angiography was perfromed on me back in 2003 while I was a patient in the icu after having bypass surgery on my abdominal aorta and having problems breathing. ... (50 replies)
... He is now off Coumadin for now. After this episode he developed a terrible cough. He had to have fluid removed from around his lungs 3 times already. ... (2 replies)
... he is a young man, just 33 but has a cough all the time. He's been to an asthma doc who says he is just fine. but he coughs when he wakes up, after eating, and all throughout the day. Sometimes it's a dry cough, but usually it sounds like he's coughing stuff up. sorry to be so visual! ... (13 replies)
... well the cough itself is probably caused by the fluid. Not to scare you but fluid build up in the lungs may be a sign of congestive heart failure or pleural effusion. ... (2 replies)
... Since then he has a really bad cough and can barely talk because of it. Yesterday he went for a follow up and they told him he had fluid buildup in the lungs. ... (2 replies)
... diately started antibiotics, but not before I started getting drainage again into my lungs. The weird thing is that I always seem to have a dull pain in my left lung only when I cough. Last time the doc said he could hear the junk in my left lung. Is the stuff mucus only draining to one lung and if so, why? ... (9 replies)
... Major surgery is difficult....and chest surgery is to me more difficult because we use allll those muscles to breath, move, support, cough, cry....everything. ... (20 replies)
