... ough, then phlegm does come up. The dr. gave me cough syrup with codeine, which I've been able to tolerate. Woke up this morning feeling sicker, with tightness in my chest, so I'm calling the dr. first thing. I've never had anything like this before. ... (5 replies)
... and still cough once in a while but my tubes seem to be clearing up. ... (5 replies)
... pak. I just finished the antibiotic today and I still have a deep cough and feel sort of ill. Going to try to get to the dr. tomorrow to have the her listen to lungs again and hopefully get a chest xray. I've been reading today that the cough can linger for a month. Also, it shows up mostly in late summer and fall. ... (5 replies)
... hear some movement in the bottom of my chest at the end of my inhales and some shortness of breath. i also was getting mild, short fevers and cold sweats a couple of nights. ... (5 replies)
... hear some movement in the bottom of my chest at the end of my inhales and some shortness of breath. i also was getting mild, short fevers and cold sweats a couple of nights. ... (0 replies)
... yeah, i had the cough for like 2 weeks before i got the other symptoms and it was just a cough, no runny or stuffed nose, no sore throat, nothing.
get the chest x-ray. hopefully it'll be negative, and whatever it is you have will pass. good luck and feel better. (5 replies)
... sorry, posted it twice by mistake. (5 replies)
... I shocked my dr with how cold my right hand was compared to be left. There is nothing to be heard in my lungs. No wheezing, no rubbing, nothing. ... (0 replies)
... you say you are a smoker, unfortunatly, as if you have no choice in the matter, we all
had to quit, it is the hardest thing to do, but by realising this is the only life you will ever have and letting nicotine rule your life expectency you are shortining your ONLY life by years... don't admit defeat and quit cold turkey. Throw away all your ashtrays and matches and... (5 replies)
... rayed. Not every smoker is going to have Cancer or COPD or Emphysema. But in any of the cases early detection is the key to recovery. So don't be afraid to go to the doctor...be afraid if you don't go. ... (5 replies)
... I have Emphysema and it isn't fun! Knowing what I know now I would run to the Pulmonologist the first mention of having Emphysema. I didn't have any symptoms until I reached the severe state. Even then I kept on going as if I wasn't ill. Unfortunately I recently had a worsening of symptoms and now I fight for breath just sitting here! This disease is brutal--and there is... (12 replies)
... I woke up this morning and had a little soreness in my chest area, I couldn't really get a good breathe without it hurting. ... (0 replies)
... e. Here I'm mentioning them again, but my pleural effusions now seem to be making noises. Most of the time, like you described, but sometimes I can hear gurgling in them like my stomach is growling, only it's in my chest. Sooo, it could be fluid causing the noise in your lungs...but it's just a thought. ... (2 replies)
... to Sept. 2004 for that. The doctor took me off the medicine but I think I still have the MAC. I was coughing mostly at night because I would have a tickle in the bronchial area and it was hard to get anything up. When I did, it would be a yellowish green color. It also was of a granular substance. ... (10 replies)
... How many people on this site suffer from constant congestion in their chest.? ... (0 replies)
... Ive been having X rays taken every year and they do not detect anything wrong with my lungs. So yes its been 5 years and I still get the sensation of gas buildup in my side of my chest and that would be followed with sensations of pressure in the ribcage ... ... (0 replies)
... Talk to your doctor, preferable a pulmonologist, about being tested for Alpha 1 Antitrypsin Deficiency. It's done through a blood test. http://www.alphanet.org/index.html You can see if anything on the Alpha site is helpful to you. Just sign up (free) and click on "BFRG". Hope it helps. (5 replies)
... y... Im a 20 yr old male.. and well about a few months ago i discovered that i had problems breathing. I first thought it was anxiety since it only happened once in a while or every other day. Now the breathing has been getting worse and worse. ... (5 replies)
... sinus last week and i am now just getting over it. Now suddenly I'm just browsing the internet and I take a deep breath and notice that my lungs are making a noise when i breath in deep, i did it over and over and it keeps doing it. ... (2 replies)
... workers did. They told me that I sounded as if I smoked 3 packs of cigarettes a day. I guess I kind of made a wheezing noise when I talked. My breathing started to get laborous about four months later. My back would hurt, the bottom of my lungs would hurt. ... (5 replies)
