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My Lung Collapsed and I didn't Realize and FFVII REBIRTH (open spoilers) AMA
Death of Rats
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So last Friday I woke up with some indigestion. Some really bad and painful gas. Took some Pepto, called off work, and slept. It didn't help. Then I started thinking maybe it wasn't indigestion, but a shortness of breath. So I thought pneumonia or potentially covid. But I didn't have a high or low temperature. So I decided to wait overnight and see what was up.
Next day I wake up after tossing and turning all night, becoming more and more short of breath, and then my heart started racing. Ok, I think this is covid, let's go to the ER.
They get me in quick, do a chest X-ray after listening to my lungs (which sounded fine apparently). Shows me my right lung, it's there looks great. Shows my left lung. It's missing just went out for a smoke, will be right back.
So long story short I've been in the hospital since the 13th with a tube in my chest sucking out all the air around my collapsed lung, and at this point I have no idea when they'll let me out. Apparently it will require surgery to stop at this point, but hospitals are busy and I'm not dieing, so I'm low priority to transfer.
I need something to do, so figured hey, let's make a thread here that will be up until the forums end.
Next day I wake up after tossing and turning all night, becoming more and more short of breath, and then my heart started racing. Ok, I think this is covid, let's go to the ER.
They get me in quick, do a chest X-ray after listening to my lungs (which sounded fine apparently). Shows me my right lung, it's there looks great. Shows my left lung. It's missing just went out for a smoke, will be right back.
So long story short I've been in the hospital since the 13th with a tube in my chest sucking out all the air around my collapsed lung, and at this point I have no idea when they'll let me out. Apparently it will require surgery to stop at this point, but hospitals are busy and I'm not dieing, so I'm low priority to transfer.
I need something to do, so figured hey, let's make a thread here that will be up until the forums end.
No I don't.
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I'm glad you're all right as you can be at least
That's fucking wild
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Can you eat and drink? What are they doing for you until surgery?
They almost sent me home today after removing the tube yesterday, but the pneumothorax started to come back slowly, and I would have ended up on the same condition I was in on the 13th in a few days.
There was so much air in my lung cavity that it was pushing my heart and esophagus to the other side of my chest.
well it's only the one
(I'm kidding)
@Death of Rats that completely sucks! If it makes you feel any better, my ex has had that happen twice and is none the worse for the wear so hopefully you'll recover equally as well!
We should have two of everything! This makes me angry at the solo organs
I believe a lung collapse usually happens when air gets into your chest cavity, meaning there's too much pressure around the lung so it can't expand, but the lung itself may be fine.
Treatment involves getting stabbed in the chest with a big needle.
I learned this from the medical documentary, Three Kings.
Oh yeah, basically a collapsed lung is like a popped balloon. Air gets into the space outside of your lung making it so the air pressure causes you lung to not inflate. They put a tube in between ribs, get into that space, and apply some light suction through a device that allows drainage of fluids and air. Then the lung just... Inflates again as you breath. Then typically the lung will heal and seal up.
No idea. Considering I wasn't having any breathing issues this morning and the amount of air had doubled since last night, the doctor thinks this was a very slow leak over the course of days before it started causing me discomfort. Which is a thing I didn't know could happen.
Actually all of this is shit I didn't know until it happened.
The main reasoning they can think of is I'm a tall and skinny guy. But even then my age makes that being a factor way lower.
Because I know one other person who has experienced an unexpectedly collapsed lung, and I don't want to talk about the reason why and potentially scare you unless you know you're cool already.
They've done CTs to check for cancer. Constant blood test. Right now the thought is that's it's not a hole in the lung, but somewhere else that would release air into that space. Like, further up the respiratory system. Which could be caused by just... Bending the wrong way or straining too hard while moving apparently.
What I've been told is I seem in perfect health besides the whole collapsed lung thing. If there is something else, they're not finding it right now.
It'd still be pretty funny. It's a joke I'd 100% be ok with.
Oh shit... Wingnut and screwloose as a package, just for the puns.
Awesome! Glad there's no secondary cause there for you.
The thing that I was hesitant to mention actually happened to my Mom a little less than two years ago; they found a pretty sizable tumor had actually wrapped itself around where the "split" is for the two different lungs.
She had been feeling slightly off for awhile, but not drastically so? And then came the unfortunate news of "Well, turns out you've had a collapsed lung for a while and here's why."
She has since gotten the lung that the tumor was more biased towards removed and is totally cancer free again! And I say again because this was a few years after getting an apparently completely unrelated breast cancer diagnosis, and also having that cut out of her.
Are you trapped in bed with the tube or can you walk around with it?
I'm trapped in a radius of like 5 feet from the suction on the wall.
I had a nice period of time yesterday where I had the tube out and I went a walking. But now it's basically bed or chair. I didn't even know the bathroom here had a shower until yesterday.
How are you coming along? This whole "didn't know I was about to die" thing is kinda scary and makes me think I'm going to be going to the doctor for a lot more small things from now on.
I got out yesterday and have to be very careful with my diet and not to rip my internal stitches. Mostly catching up on sleep that I couldn’t have in the hospital.
Yeah anyone reading this if you’ve had occasional unexplained stomach or abdominal pain don’t brush it off, go see a doctor!
The “almost 40 pains of unidentified provenance” multiply quadratically after 40
No idea what caused it, doctors didn't seem interested in finding out. They blamed COVID even though she caught that after symptoms start, and it typically only causes collapsed lung if they need to be on a ventilator.
Having a lung collapse makes it a lot easier to collapse in the future and we've been to urgent care once since then for a scare (turned out to be bronchitis).
my friend would definitely be considered an ectomorph (lean and tall glass of water), and his lung has collapsed a couple times, but he also smoked cigarettes and stuff.
You heard him, within 5 feet of a random hole in the wall.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.