Yuck. They described that surgery to me and told me I'd have to have it if my lung kept collapsing further, don't want to put too much pressure in the lower part of the left lung as that can trap the aorta. The roughing up the tissue was described to me as like "patching a bicycle tire". Awesome, eh?
Glad that mine only happened once and that yours has seemed to have stopped happening. Judah On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:50 AM, GMoney <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That is exactly what happened to me.....only it happened 3 times. The first > time i thought i was having a heart attack. > > They operated on me after the second one, because they said after it happens > a second time, it'll probably keep happening. They went in and removed the > sac around my lung, then roughed up a muscle above my lung along with the > top of my lung, with the idea that hte two would "scar" together. > And...that's what holds my left lung up! > > The third collapse was my other lung, but it healed itself and I haven't > heard from it since. > > Extreme low pressure systems still cause my chest to hurt on the left side, > sometimes rather acutely. For quite a few years after the operation i'd > become a fairly good predictor for severe thunderstorms, but that has waned > recently. > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Judah McAuley <ju...@wiredotter.com> wrote: > >> >> My lung collapse was a spontaneous partial pneumothorax...which in >> laymans speak means that one day I woke up and a small hole developed >> in the top of my left lung and it partially collapsed, for no obvious >> reason. It felt like having a bungie cord wrapped around my lungs, >> couldn't draw a breath properly. It eventually sealed itself up and >> reinflated, no surgery needed on my part. Still messes me up though as >> the muscles holding my lung and heart in place to my ribs are tighter >> on that side than on my right, so the two halves of my chest don't >> move the same way and are always popping. >> >> Judah >> >> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Grussgott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > Not to pry but how?? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:340982 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
