foreign object in lung

jackiejoyous609

I recently choked on shards of plastic as I was eating. I can feel the nagging discomfort in one spot of my right lung, the piece I retrieved from the food I was chewing was razor sharp, fine pointed as a pin, or the most delicate thorn. What would be the logical path to take?

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bsmsl

You need to see a pulmonologist and have a CT done. They may go straight to a bronchoscopy so that they can remove the foreign object at the same time, but usually they will want to make sure something it there first.

Feel better.

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