Respiratory Therapy : Symptoms of Lung Cancer & Emphysema
Sep 06, 2010 in
Other Cancer
Symptoms of lung cancer and emphysema include increased breathlessness, wheezing, coughing and increase mucus production. Find out why vital signs may be normal in a patient with lung cancer with help from a nurse and respiratory care practitioner in this free video on respiratory therapy and healthy breathing.
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25 comments
LifeisDeep00 on July 6, 2009 at 11:09 am
I would stop seeing that doctor and get sec opinion
alexandrepato123 on September 9, 2009 at 12:36 pm
i have a pain in my right side under my rib, and hurts when i move around, (havent damaged it anything.)
mutedisease on September 12, 2009 at 12:54 pm
I´ve been sick for around 2 months now. It started as a cough with a lot of phlegm. The cough has mostly receded now, I only cough sometimes when in a place with air conditioning. But I have a lot of strange symptoms like lightheadness, tachycardia , some shortness of breath every now and then, and pain throughout my toraxic area, specially the ribs. It hurts when I cough and sneeze. I´m really worried I might be very sick.
desdemonalight on September 19, 2009 at 8:56 am
i hope this msg finds you well! i to have the same symptoms and go for a ct lung scan this week,,teriffied my years of smokeing have done harm, i wish i could turn the clock back . good luck to you.
mutedisease on September 19, 2009 at 11:42 am
Same to you. I still have to get an X-ray plaque and EKG for the tachycardia. My chest hurts a little less now but I´m still worried about it. I also regret each one of those cigarettes.
daleclara on September 27, 2009 at 5:06 pm
i have smoke for 15 years and have pain in and around my chest. thats why i have stopped. it worrise the shit out of me.
salemcripple on September 27, 2009 at 11:10 pm
I’ve been coughing up white/clear sputum for a couple of weeks, but there is no blood, and no pain. I am a heavy chewing tobacco user (one time smoker), but haven’t smoked in 8 years or more. Today i’ve been extremely light headed. It scares the hell out of me that it might be cancer. I do have a feeling of not being able to get enough air, but i also had a pulmonary embolism last november, and have had that symptom since.
oldflatus on September 28, 2009 at 12:16 pm
May GOD Bless each of you and help you get the info and any treatment you may need! Take Care!
knightofirish79 on October 16, 2009 at 12:39 pm
here is my ?last year i had to go in cause my lungs where closing so i had to take a steriod inhaler so i could breath.the doc came in and told me that if i didnt slow down he could see me on a oxygen tank in 2-4 years.and with what systoms i have he thinks i have i guess a stage 2 emphysema.how can he say that with just a xray,listening to my lungs,and giving me a steriod inhaler?dont a pulmanary specialist have to diagnois u?
cupcake749 on November 11, 2009 at 5:26 pm
do u smoke? that’d be helpful!
dyldonavich1990 on November 24, 2009 at 7:37 am
Im smoked sincei was 10 im 19 now and sadly i have to go for a second test on my chest nd do a chest function test.
im only young and have been told i am pretty positive case of emphysema.
i never thought my age would get it but how stupid i was its jus torn my family apart
NorthMemphis745 on November 28, 2009 at 2:03 am
iever thing you said relates to me
im scared i might have cancer
NorthMemphis745 on November 28, 2009 at 2:04 am
same
garnyan on December 8, 2009 at 8:50 am
@dyldonavich1990 I know how u feel me to
garnyan on December 8, 2009 at 8:57 am
We all regret smoking the dreaded death stick called THE CIGARRETTE but it is so damn easy for doctors and friends and family to tell you to stop smoking the words stop smoking is easy to say but not to do i wish to god people would realised that for some not all stopping smoking is so hard specially if u have been smoking for a large amount of years.
Everybody regrets even putting a cig to their mouth but they are so addictive after all stopping smoking is worse than coming of heroin,
dyldonavich1990 on December 8, 2009 at 11:24 am
Everybody wants to give up but the fact that sometimes other life stresses are a big factor in the process and sway someone to relapse it jus pisses me off that half the doctors who say dont smoke it is killing you actually have never or mayb once tried it.
but what i feel people need is just the support and research in a possitive way to quit.
blade75964 on December 15, 2009 at 11:15 pm
I agree with you there 100%. My doctor tells me to quit smoking, I had chest X-raw two weeks ago, doc told me today 12-15-09 that I am in the early stages of emphysema, I told her if I quit smoking now will it get better, worse or what. She told me that it will not get better because the damage is already done, but she said at least it will not get any worse,,, Is that part true, scared that it still can be worse later, or even get cancer. YOu think I needs 2nd opinion.
blade75964 on December 15, 2009 at 11:20 pm
Please get another opinion, I just quit smoking tonight 12-15-09 because of what the doctor told me today. I just hope I don’t get that cancer or any worse than I am now. Its what I replied to LifeisDeep00. But yea you need to ask another doctor about that. My doctor will not even give me something to help me quit, just tells me to just quit smoking, and that they really don’t work anyway, You have to want to quit and that stuff will not work. YOu must want to quit first. Will Power.
erichathy222 on December 26, 2009 at 8:51 pm
dyldonavich1990 same here im paying for it now and also had a rough childhood
SuperChicagolady on February 22, 2010 at 12:37 am
@blade75964 Hi, if it would put your mine at ease, then get a 2nd opinion. She was right telling you that if you quit it will not get worse, but you are basically stuck with it. I too am a smoker now for about 35 years. If you have emphysema please don’t be scared, it is manageable, and it will not kill you like lung cancer can. Please don’t stress over this, stress is not good for your body. Be thankful that you don’t have lung cancer. Hope i was able to help.
blade75964 on February 22, 2010 at 9:07 am
Thank you, you was helpful.
MrChicosTaco on February 27, 2010 at 3:08 pm
i don’t understand u people that smoke..
you guys are scared to die of cancer but yet u still smoke.
anyways, God Bless
satyriconlife on March 16, 2010 at 6:35 pm
becuz for some people its not eazy to quit and other people arnt even scared of dying me and my brother arnt we can stop anytime we want but we dont care if we get lung cancer or anything
deidjera on April 21, 2010 at 8:08 am
@alexandrepato123
me too, hurts every morning when i wake up
gphx on May 3, 2010 at 10:35 pm
@blade75964 People lose lung function naturally as a function of advancing age so whether you smoke or not you’ll continue to lose lung capacity from where you are now. Smoking will of course hasten the process.