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Best of luck today...DO NOT BE NERVOUS!  The doctor with help you and answer all your questions.
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Sorry about that!
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I wouldn't want surgery (my fear is fear of hospitals), but it sounds like good news to me.  You may never develop another one, and if you do, you know it's treatable and you'll be fine.  You'll never, never die from it.  People with only one lung can jog and run, but it's never going to come down to one lung with you.  Congratulations on the good news!

Now, you do know you need to stop smoking, right?  If the other stuff upset your stomach, then try a nicotine patch or nicotine gum.  Just stop!  Chances are, if you stop, you'll never have another pneumothorax and you'll prevent a lot of other problems as well.
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Well that is good news!  I wouldn't worry about it at all!  You are going to be just fine.  And you won't get another one.....don't even think that.
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The doctor was so nice to me.. He said he thinks I was born with..... He told me I have bubbles they look like. When they burst your lung collspe.That is what mine did. He told me mine was so small I wouldnt even know it  I had it.......Im going to get another XRAY and see if its gone. If I do develop amother one they will do surgery. He said I could develop another who knows when? I couldnt.....We just dont know. If I do develop symptoms go to the ER......I said Im scared Im going to die.....LOL he said no go to the ER......He said people can live off of one lung. Then I told him about the tension one he said very rare......
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It will, you can count on it!
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154765 tn?1237247944
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Thanks suzi.... Im like so nervous but Im hoping he will ease my mind.....
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