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murielm99

(31,536 posts) Sun Dec 17, 2023, 05:59 PM Dec 2023

I wonder if anyone has had a similar experience... [View all]

I am not looking for medical advice, just commiseration and sharing.

If you have cancer, or a condition that keeps you in pain all the time, I am sorry. I don't know how people do that.

My question is for anyone here who has had a pleural effusion. (fluid filling the lung) I just had that. From what I am seeing and hearing, it will take 2-4 weeks to heal. If you have had to put up with the pain from a pleural effusion for that long, how did you do it? I am going nuts.

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I wonder if anyone has had a similar experience... [View all] murielm99 Dec 2023 OP

are you asking about a pleudisis? or thoracentisus? (unknown spelling) WhiteTara Dec 2023 #1

"If you have cancer, or a condition that keeps you in pain all the time, I am sorry. I don't know how people do that." OldBaldy1701E Dec 2023 #2

There are a lot of pain interventions that are not always used but can be very effective hlthe2b Dec 2023 #3

First, I am sorry for you and for the pain you are in bottomofthehill Dec 2023 #4

It gets better..it gets better...it gets better. murielm99 Dec 2023 #5

It gets better. bottomofthehill Dec 2023 #6

Thank you and God bless you. murielm99 Dec 2023 #7

The shortness of breath is what murielm99 Dec 2023 #8

I know this will sound crazy, but those silly little plastic toys help bottomofthehill Dec 2023 #9