Altitude change after lung biopsy/bronchoscopy

I will be having robotic surgery on July 11 to have the NETs cancer removed from my RLL, I met with the surgeon last week and asked how long after surgery should I wait before I could fly and he said, atleast one month after surgery, and, depending upon how I have healed. Two weeks sounds reasonable but if it were me, I'd probably give it another week.
Just a heads up - lung biopsies are not pleasant. Have you looked into it so as to prepare yourself?

Thanks so much for the info. Hope the surgery and recovery go as smoothly as possible.

This is my first lung biopsy, although my mother had them post transplant. What do you recommend to help mentally prepare?

I had a lung biopsy about four years ago. The procedure itself was pretty easy and painless. Mentally preparing was the hard part. I just tried to accept that the procedure was going to tell me what was already going on and that it was information I needed to know. My results were positive for malignant net tumors and I ended up having to have the middle and lower lobes of my right lung removed. That procedure was also painless and I waa up and walking pain free about two hours after the procedure was completed. I hope your biopsy tests results are good. Best wishes! You can do it.

Definitely ask for sedation for your biopsy. It's not pleasant. While still on the table while they were checking the biopsy I had to cough. When I coughed, I coughed up a bunch of frothy blood which was a bit alarming even tho I had read the info about having a lung biopsy. Thankfully, my lung didn't collapse. Wishing you the very best with your procedures.

As a follow up to my previous comments, I was fully sedated for my biopsy procedure.