pain on right side of chest

[jackie53]

Hi,i have had 5 pneumothorax,then i had an operation to repair the lung,it was then they found i had the start of empysema,however i am now getting pain every time i turn or twist my body.I have stopped smoking since i had the operation which was in 2007 and the surgeon said i will have a normal life if i continue not to smoke.Could be scar tissue or is it going to collapse again?
any advice i would be truly grateful
regards
jackie

[hlsf]

hopefully you do not have cysts on your lungs.  Have you had a CT done to see if you have cysts?  Unexplained lung collapses can be due to the rare lung disease called LAM.  google the LAM foundation

[pete3867]

my guess is that some of the nerves were displaced when you had the surgery