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Multiple lung nodules: Might they be noncancerous? What next?
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Sep 12, 2023 | Replies (174)Comment receiving replies
You may not want to hear this...I have had a few and all but one no problem. I did have a collapsed lung for one and it was caught immediately and I was returned to the room where the biopsy had been done and had tube put into my lung. Spent the night in the hospital and was discharged next day after the doctor took the tubing out. That is a second of unpleasantness but to me that second was the worst of it all.....have been tubed since and just start to sing and do deep breathing as I knew it was coming....
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When you have a lung biopsy or bronchoscopy they keep you for a few hours to make sure all is well. If there is pain (I only had pain on the collapsed lung one) they will ask you your pain level from 1-10...Then they will do some sort of xray or CT scan to see if lung collapsed....I honestly was very groggy so short on details....I do not remember any pain being intubated....be honest about the pain level.