Yes. My phrenic nerve on the right side died. So my diaphragm is paralyzed. I have asthma/Copd. I coughed literally non stop until my husband read about a Cardiac/Thoracic Surgeon who does a diaphragm plication. The first surgery was done with only small cuts and chest tubes. Unfortunately my husband got sick and I had pneumonia. Then I had the big surgery. I understand that they fold over and suture the diaphragm so it doesn’t move up quite so far compress
the lung. When I lay down my oxygen level drops. I am on oxygen ad a bipap at night. I had to have a pace maker put in also. Before the O2 and bipap for 6 months I 6 times died for Minute or 2. My husband did cpr and brought me back. The finally figured out that when my oxygen dropped while I was sleeping my heart was getting short circuited from that nerve which is part of the Vaso. system. Now that does not happen any more.

They don’t know why my nerve died.

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