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Increasing pain over time after Video Assisted Thoracic Surgery
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Jan 14 1:42pm | Replies (42)Comment receiving replies
Vic, Interesting. I expect the Mayo Pulmononolgist will want to see a CT and make a decision from there. In my case they scheduled the thoracentesis a couple days after they saw the CT. Then they did a lot of lab tests on the fluid and took about a week for all of them to be completed. Hopefully the test results will help determine the cause of the fluid and then they can, hopefully, treat accordingly. Contact your Mayo team again and describe your shortness of breath and deep breath pain. Good Luck
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For curiosity did they do your thoracentesis in the office (Gonda?) or at the hospital? What specialist actually performed it?
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Thanks. Yes, Pulmonologist has the CT scan identifying pleurisy - I had ER send actual scan because I know Mayo wants original scans - also for comparison for my future CT scan comparison. I talked to him today and because I had had a sudden inflammation of the hands (painful!) four months back, he is sending me back to the rheumatologist in case I have a developing autoimmune disorder (those impact lungs too) - and he is available to discuss it with that guy. My CT scans always talk about a lot of stuff in my lungs. No talk yet of draining, will see if it resolves or they can find something else first.
Amazing, now Mayo is getting my stuff from Allina. So they had my blood work for him to look at.