I have Some questons(Long)

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Registered: 03-31-2007
I have Some questons(Long)
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Sat, 03-31-2007 - 2:28am

Im Looking for Someone To answer Some Questions For Me..Its On Lung Cancer So If You Know Anything On It Or Any questons I Have It would Be a Big Help If You can Answer Them..

I should Prolly start Off By What Brings Me To This Board I Wasent Sure Where Else to ask My Questions At And Havent found anything Online About It..Back In Late June I Had A Baby And Was In The Hospital for 3 Days When I got Out I was Put Back In less Then A week Later Due To Not Being Able to really Breath And My cheast Rattleing And Not Being Able To Be off My Back Because I would Get really Bad Headachs The Bad Headachs Was Due To An Epudiral I Got The Hole In It Never closed up Like It was Supost To And I was Leaking spinal fluid..When I got there I ended Up Getting A x-ray The x-ray Showerd I had a spot On my Lung Or So The Doctor Thought And Went And Looked at It He Thought At That time I only Had One Spot On My Lung Later That Day I got sent for a CT scan They found Spots On My Lungs And My Ob Came and Talked To Me And Made Me An Appointment For The Next Month To Go See A Pulminologist My Doctor said I had a spot On My Lung And To Be safe I should Go See One I got released from the Hospital The Next Day when The fluid came off my Lungs..Come To Find Out When The Pulminologist looked At My x-rays and ct scans There Was Alot Of Little White spots All Over Bother Of My Lungs He Told Me He wasent Sure what It was and Had only seen Something Like That a couple Of Times He said it looked Kind Of Like Amonia But there was To Much of It He Thought..He also wouldent Answer any of My questions On What It Could Be Or On Anything And Told Me To come Back and Get a CT To see if It got Better Or worse..Well Long Story Short I Never Went Back Because He really scared Me And I wanted to find a New Doctor That would Answer Questions I Had..Well Fast Forward To Now I feel fine Yet I Always felt fine I Havent Had Problems Breathing Exept That Time And It was Due To Fluid Build Up On My Lungs And Me Laying Down And Not Moveing Because of My Spinal Headach..The Only Times I Do Have Problems Breathing Is In The Summer And Spring This Whole Winter My breathing was Fine But The second The Winter Got Over I have Noticed I have some Trouble Breathing Again(I Have Allergis Pretty Bad)..I Took A breathing Test when i did Go See The Pulminologist And My Breathing Test Was Fine..I was Told By A Nurse In My family Prolly What They found On My Lungs Was Spinal Fluide Because If You Get An Epudiral That can Happen I dont Know If This is True Tho..Also I Have Never Smoked But Been Around Second Hand Smoke My Whole Life..Ok Sorry That was So Long..My Questions Are Dose This Sound Like Anything That Was found On Any Of Your Lungs Or cancer At All??Also When I go back And See A pulminologist What Kind Of test Will He Do And What Should I Expect??If It Is cancer And With It All Over My Lungs What Kind Of Treatments Would I Get??I Plan On Makeing An Appointment With A Diffrent Pulminologist As Soon As I can Get In..Like I said The Only reason I dident Go In Again Sooner Was Because He really scared Me and wouldent Answer Any Of My questions And At that Time I wasent Honestly ready Or Prepared To Know What Was Wrong And I also Got Busy with The Things that Go Along with Being a New Mother To really Have Time..Sorry So Long But If Anyone can Answer Any of My questions Or Give Me Any Advice Once so Ever That would Be really Great And Thank You Everyone..

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Sat, 03-31-2007 - 1:23pm

Welcome to the board.

Hope everyone has a great Summer!

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