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PLEURAL EFFUSION
by: MARY on Thu, Jan 22 2009
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I was diag. with bacterial pneumonia just before thanksgiving. I was hospitilized for 8 days. At christmas time I was noticably short of breath and was put in again. X-rays showed a large amt of fluid. 4 liters was extracted and tested for everything, but was negative.

Today I am showing signs of having it again. Tomorrow I will go to the drs. to see….more ?? I was told that it might come back multiple times… Thank god I have a good surgeon and hardly felt a thing when the fluid was removed….


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  1. Mon, Feb 09 2009
    Before Thanksgiving I also ended up with pneumonia which caused the effusion. Mine was blood colored, it was tested for cancer and other diseases ever...Read

January 2009

  • PLEURAL EFFUSION - by MARY - (Thu, Jan 22 2009)
    I was diag. with bacterial pneumonia just before thanksgiving. I was hospitilized for 8 days. [more..]
  • mystery efusion - by robert - (Mon, Jan 12 2009)
    i was admitted to the hospital after dislocating seven ribs from my spinal colom. after chiropracter adjustment my lung on left side collapsed after only two or three days. the doctors at the hospital drained 2 liters of a greenish fluid from my outer lung cavity. [more..]

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