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Upper right lobectomy for stage 1 adeno 1.8 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm anyone?
Lung Cancer | Last Active: Nov 27, 2023 | Replies (58)Comment receiving replies
Me too. Following my VAT surgery ULL on May 19th, I never quite got back to where I was. Nerve pain did go away but numbness remains under the left breast. The biggest issue is a crisis in breathing that occurred about 2 months back. I have shortness of breath just getting off the sofa. I tried antibiotics with no change and am now on Prednisone for 6 weeks and that has helped. Suspected alveolitis. Besides the multifocal cancer I have fibrosis - if mild or something more still to be determined.
I can walk more now but with exertion I feel like my diaphragm won't open up and allow me to take a complete breath. I don't know if it is the scarring in the lung or the muscle that is not cooperating. Certainly, surgery can damage nerves and muscles in the area. In my case I even had a fractured rib
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Bless your heart. I’m glad you tried prednisone. It helped me a lot on the four days I was taking 20mg. Once I started stepping it down, the benefit stepped down as well. Not as bad as it was but not as good as those four days on 20mg.
So. I’m seeing the positive that the prednisone effect means it is some kind of inflammation. Could be bone or muscle but I want to conquer the inflammation. I see my Rheumatologist the first week of December and I’m going to inquire whether the inflammation could be RA related and can I do another round of Prednisone. There shouldn’t be any source of continued inflammation, so my uninformed hope is that if I can quiet it down, it may not return.