I had the pleurodesis done 3 years ago. Once they put the talc in my chest tube they forgot to turn the machine on to inflate my lung so the talc could do is job and make my lung stick to the chest wall,,,I was left over night in such pain and confusion due to pain meds. When my doctor visited me in the morning they realized the chest tube was clogged so essentially the talc just created a clump in the base of my left lung,, which happenes to be my "good" lung. It didn't fix the collapsed lung. So weeks later they used a couple valves to "plug" up the lung and it worked. Ugh that healing was torture!! Anyways my recent CT says,,, change in the talc area. What does that mean!! I feel like that little bit of lung that is now taken up by this clump of talc is really hindering my health. Now I might have hypertension and I think it's because my lungs are working even harder. BTW I'm not over weight and eat super healthy. I don't want to take medicine for hypertension,,ugh. I just wonder if this has happened to anyone else??? And what their side effects have been and how they deal with it.

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