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Pain after robotic assisted lobectomy: How long does it last?
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Another question related to symptoms after a lobectomy. Its been 4 weeks and I need to get a build up of fluid removed from my treated lung via thoracentesis. Has anyone else had that experience?
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I'm curious as to what systems you had or how did they know you had fluid build up and believe that call it pleural effusion?
I had some fluid on the 6 months lobectomy follow up CT.........but it went away on its own and one year follow up did not see any.
I had VATS wedge resection surgery last November and my 6 week surgery follow up xray did not show any fluid. My 6 month CT did show pleural effusion). Some fluid is possible but mine was a a bit more than expected and had thoracentesis in April. Testing showed mine may be related to the lymphoma that I also have. I had a late June follow up and had some recent deep breath pain and found the fluid returned and had another thoracentesis on Friday and am waiting on test results. Am expecting it is lymphoma caused and not surgery related.
Thoractesis is a pretty quick and easy procedure. Not much pain. You can see a procedure on youtube. Am guessing they will test the fluid.
Let us know how it goes.