Guest guest Posted March 9, 2009 Report Share Posted March 9, 2009 I have a totally random thing happening and am wondering of others have experienced it. For the past several days I have been having a seemingly random lung pain. I will be fine, fine, fine, and then BOOM I have a horribly severe pain in my lungs. It is in my upper lungs and I feel it on both sides in the front and back. It is excruciating and extremely hard to breath for about 30 minutes. I really don't know where my peak flow meter is so I haven't checked them, but I never get above a 250 anyway. I have tried upping my prednisone to see if that makes a difference and haven't noticed one. It is like an asthma attack except that it comes on way suddenly and leaves just as suddenly. They last about 30 minutes and it has happened probably an average of 10 times a day over the past few days. Yesterday sitting at church I noticed my fingers were turning bluish during it so I know I'm getting hypoxic. I had a new Hickman Line put in on Wednesday but did not have any anesthia or anything and they put it in the same spot so I can't imagine that is the problem. They also put me on a prophylactic antibiotic since I am so immune compromised so I can't imagine I have an infection. I really have no idea what it could be and hesitate to go to the dr because I don't want to be over reacting over nothing. Plus when my lungs are not completely on fire I go back to my baseline which is not good but is nothing like I'm experiencing. Any ideas? Sorry this ended up so long. It is hard to explain the situation in an email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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