... My mother has the same coughing issue since her upper right lobectomy. It is a very dry cough and happens mostly when she tries to speak. Her surgery was 8 weeks ago. If she lays down, there is no coughing. ... (2 replies)

... A lobectomy is usually a very successful procedure. Like any surgery, you will be pretty sore afterwards and will need to do lots of deep breathing and coughing after surgery to prevent a chest infection from developing. ... (10 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)

... find a good balance of treatment for both things at the same time. Fourteen months ago, my GERD stopped responding to treatments that had previously worked. My coughing and breathing got so bad that I ended up needing emergency treatment. I went to a new Pulmonologist. ... (6 replies)

... So, as some of you know...I had a full thoracotomy and lobectomy six months ago to remove a benign tumor. Because I was coughing so much after surgery, I was tested for asthma and my tests came back negative. Multiple ct scans were done again...with contrast and without. ... (2 replies)

... then coming into a warm room caused it. But the same thing happened again yesterday afternoon. Temp was around upper 40's and after walking about 5 minutes later the same thing happened. I've never had asthma or breathing problems before. ... (1 replies)

... new model it seems to get a bit smaller. The newest one is really small. I checked it out at the PCD Family day last year. One thing that is fun that gets you coughing up stuff is jumping on a trampoline. It would be fun to get one. ... (35 replies)

... and said I needed to do another scan. I asked why and that is when I was told their was a spot on my left lung. I was told not to worry it was propably nothing. After my second scan my dr called immediatley and told me I had nemourous spots and she was sending me to a pulmo dr. ... (2 replies)

... The surgery went fine and I recovered normally but that didn't make any difference and the episodes still come and go. ... (0 replies)

... Alleyway! Wow...you are more informed than me! Yes, I will see if I can get the GERD surgery either 1) during transplant or 2) immediately after - the surgeon won't even consider it now. I'm on prilosec now and it seems to be working. At least I'm not cognizant of any reflux now (unless it's 'silent' and I don't wake up choking and coughing, which I haven't done for... (8 replies)

... better after taking the antibiotics. I just started having the exhaustion and coughing ugly looking sputum occasionally that led me to believe the MAI was active again. ... (86 replies)

... They instead did chemo and radiation to reduce the tumor and the chemo for a lymph node. She was had been coughing a lot and she always said it was "allergies", she smoked and work in resturants for 60 years, they said that smoking did not cause it but it did not help it. ... (50 replies)

... ray that was done before the surgery I had on my head. I had a nodule in each lung, emphysema, scattered larger bullae in a CT scan. ... (218 replies)

... I'm just...stuck. Part of me wants to believe it's just a bad bout of bronchitis and it'll go away after about three days on my meds. ... (4 replies)

... after doing some reading about atelectasis, i think that may be what i have. the surgery i had on my wrist consisted of a bone graft which involved taking some bone from my hip. ... (8 replies)

... she'd sit breathing thru a wet washrag to try to calm hers down...she died a few years ago...she'd had a heart attack, and had to have her valve replaced...then after a few years she died... ... (22 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)

... Was the surgery around your Lungs or Diaphram? ... (4 replies)

... I don't know why lungs hurt. It always was infection for me, unless it was muscular, from all the coughing I was purposely doing to try to bring stuff up. The stuff you mix with the albuterol would probably serve the same purpose as the saline. ... (9 replies)

... Since my sinus surgery a year ago my lungs have been SOOOOO much better. I've had one infection since then. Before that it was ridiculous. ... (35 replies)