Keep getting second, third, or even fourth opinions until you feel most comfortable with an answer.
I have the same exact thing going on right now, ever find out what it was?
I agree with taysmommy i think you should get a different doctor. Your doctor sounds like an a@@ if you know what i mean? I honestly would not go back there but I don't know how you feel about your doctor. You might like him but if it was me I wouldn't go back. I don't know much about your problem and I wish I could help but I have never heard of your lungs growling that sounds weird. I don't know if I helped any about the doctor situation but I hope I did. GOOD LUCK!!
pleurisy maybe? no clue really.. my lung weezes sometimes.. if i were you I would see about getting a different doctor... I am not sure about the range of tests they could do at this time due to the fact that you are pregnant.. but.. all the same.. I would get a different doctor..
Thanks ladies, I will. I also did some more googling on costochondritis, and it said that the first attack could feel like a heart attack ( had that) and then it could feel like what I am having, it mimics heart disease and lung disease, pain most of the time left sided...it explains it all,,,, except the lung growling thing.
Rockrose: I can breathe fine during the growling...????
Thank you all, I do feel somewhat better, but I will make an ppt. with a different Dr. :)
Ok - yes, I know - but I'm saying that I am hearing constant gurgly/wheeze sounds from my mother's "lung area" regardless of inhalation/exhalation and it's definitely not coming from her stomach. Anyway :) debate isn't necessary but from my personal and recent (last nite) experience, sounds seems to come from there. I'm done now!
There is a big difference between the heart and the lungs. Yes, the heart beats all the time even if you hold your breath, but no, if you are holding your breath, your lungs are not actively moving air.
I've never heard of lungs growling like a stomach growls. If it's objectively present, a doctor would certainly be able to hear it if she could get it to do so in the office.
I'm glad she's going to get it followed up, though!
Baby - I'm glad you're persuing this and hopefully you'll get some answers soon!!
When you think about the process of breathing, air is coming in and filling up your lungs. When you think about the process of what makes the sound of growling, it is air being forced from one place to another, as in air trapped in your stomach being forced around. I can't imagine that your lungs can growl while you lie and don't breathe, and the growling would continue while you're breathing - I just can't picture the two actions - breathing air in - and growling - could occur at the same time in your lungs.
So anyway. I wonder if it's your esophagus, or your stomach, that is growling behind your lung and causing your lung to vibrate or move on top of the growling?
Best wishes. I hope you get a diagnosis and some help soon!
I have spent the last week tending to a family member with severe pneumonia - and your respiratory system is still working, even when you are not actively "breathing". Have you ever noticed that if you hold your breath, your heart still beats? Your lungs are still working, even when you are not actively inhaling or exhaling. So indeed it is possible that there is movement within the lungs at any time.
Anyway - glad you are getting things checked out baby4me.
RockRose, and ladies-
Yes, I do see your point...if I didn't feel it for myself I would call myself crazy...thank you so much for your help, I do appreciate it, it is nice to bounce idea's off everyone and make some sense of things.:)
You need a chest x-ray. There are many things this could be, and it's not normal at all to have sounds coming from your chest. My first thought is that you've had walking pneumonia at some point and sustained damage to your lung tissue but you need to be evaluated. This could also be asthma, or some other respiratory condition. I do not know anything about American healthcare, but why can you not simply go to the hospital, explain your symptoms and request an evaluation, even though your obgyn thinks it's nothing? There must be different doctors working different shifts and perhaps you can get another opinion.
you might trying seeing a general practitioner if it's your OB giving you the brush off. Maybe someone else who looks at other "parts" other than pregnancy on a daily basis might be the way to go. Pregnancy's wierd and anything's possible, but at least that way maybe you'd get your questions answered...
What happens during this growling, if you try to breathe in? Have you ever tried to breathe in and out during the growling?
Is it possible for you to get a 2nd opinion? If not call your Dr back and insist this is just baby related because it occured before pregnancy. Be adamant that they try to figure out what is wrong.
Good luck!
Yes, I can be laying still, not breathing and my left lung (left only) will GROWL! Like an empty stomach. I actually had this before I was pregnant a few times, so I now it is not baby realted. No, never been at the Dr's when this occurred. But I swear I can put my hand flat up under my breast and even feel it growling.
Lung growling? Like, while you're not breathing, you spontaneously get growling sounds from a still lung? Like if you sit still and your stomach spontaneously growls?
It's really hard to believe that's your lungs, isn't it? I would think that if you have air spontaneously involuntarily moving around in your lungs, you'd choke.
Are you sure it's your lungs and not high in your esophogus? Have you ever been at the doctor when this is occuring, so they can hear it/feel it too?
Wow. Best wishes for your diagnosis.
sounds to me like you need to get another doctor, if your genuinly concerned about something, and i know you are, its their job to address your concerns and try to find the reason for your situation, im not sure if you are experiencing shortness of breath because the baby if moving your organs but it could be, none the less he/she should realize that your worried and take you seriously...i hate doctors like that who try to get you in and out of the office in 5 minuets.
ps. i didnt experience shortness of breath and chest pains(mine were from heart burn, but i felt like i was having a heart attack!) until i was 7 or 8 months...good luck, and try to get a second opinion
and also the doc may very well be right, but its your right to get good treatment and have all your worries delt with...good luck sista!