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Bibasilar subsegmental atelectasis (lung collapse)
Lung Health | Last Active: Oct 19 7:38pm | Replies (26)Comment receiving replies
@helena4000- I urge you to seek another PCP. There ins not anyway you will ever be comfortable with this guy. He has broken your trust in him. I'm sure that you know this. Maybe your new pulmonologist can recommend a new PCP unless you already have one in mind. I hope that you will check in more as you feel better to let us know your progress. And also to help others who might get an earlier diagnosis with your help when you share your story and history.
You are a success story! DO you feel like one even if you are not "cured" yet?
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....admittedly with the pleurisy pain I've had today I don't feel like a success story....I started getting scared they missed an embolism because it hurt so much (my original primary care doctor did a D-dimer test after I kept bothering him and assured me that ruled out a pulmonary embolism, however, I was then told at the first ER I went to that D-dimer tests aren't definitive...D-dimer tests don't pick up pulmonary embolisms!)...However, the CT scan I did last Tuesday (April 2) at the ER did not see a pulmonary embolism, and the pulmonologist actually did an ultrasound of my legs this past week to check for clots because my right calf has been crampy for about 8 days now. He didn't seem alarmed by anything he saw though. If any of you out there are having chest pain and breathlessness...I say don't be scared of going to the ER as soon as possible.
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I agree....he led me down the wrong road and I ended up hospitalized with something that should have gotten treatment weeks ago. If he wants to be a lazy doctor then he shouldn't be one.