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Having Severe Prickly Feeling In Lungs With Pressure In Chest. Need Antibiotic?
Question: My fiance is having severe needly/pricky feeling in her lungs. Heart checked out OK-she has some small bone spurs on the spine C5-6 and has a bulging disc. Could this all be related to spine? She constantly complains about pressure in chest and pressure in head. She's at her wits end! Thank you! She also went to ER and they Xrayed her lungs and she was given a diagnosis of pleurisy. She was given a prescription for 7 days of prednisone but not really sure if that will really help her. Should she really be on an anti-biotic?
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Its really very exceptional that her lung symptoms will be due to her spinal products.
Its good she did a chest X XXXXXXX which showed a pleurisy. Diagnosis of a pleurisy entails a lot of parameters.
A pleurisy on its own can cause chest or side chest pain and cough. A pleurisy or a pleural effusion means there is a collection of fluid in the pleural cavity. Knowing the cause deserves a careful clinical examination and laboratory and morphological exams. The cause can be infectious, inflammatory most probably in this case. Its appropriate for you to do a sputum examination to exclude pulmonary tuberculosis. A pleural tap to examine this fluid in the laboratory is a key aspect in the evaluation of this patient. Autoimmune diseases and HIV screening could be worthwhile to be screened in this situation.
Headache can be primary (migraine, tension headaches or cluster headaches) or secondary. Making a clear diagnosis shall consider the duration, evolution, associated symptoms, alleviating or aggravating factors, the location, the timing, whether its associated to fever or not or whether there is notion of weight loss or not.
Your fiance deserves a careful physical examination and other examinations by an internist. I suggest you book for a consultation to be seen by an internist.
Hope this helps. Do not hesitate asking further questions if need be. Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Luchuo, MD.
Its really very exceptional that her lung symptoms will be due to her spinal products.
Its good she did a chest X XXXXXXX which showed a pleurisy. Diagnosis of a pleurisy entails a lot of parameters.
A pleurisy on its own can cause chest or side chest pain and cough. A pleurisy or a pleural effusion means there is a collection of fluid in the pleural cavity. Knowing the cause deserves a careful clinical examination and laboratory and morphological exams. The cause can be infectious, inflammatory most probably in this case. Its appropriate for you to do a sputum examination to exclude pulmonary tuberculosis. A pleural tap to examine this fluid in the laboratory is a key aspect in the evaluation of this patient. Autoimmune diseases and HIV screening could be worthwhile to be screened in this situation.
Headache can be primary (migraine, tension headaches or cluster headaches) or secondary. Making a clear diagnosis shall consider the duration, evolution, associated symptoms, alleviating or aggravating factors, the location, the timing, whether its associated to fever or not or whether there is notion of weight loss or not.
Your fiance deserves a careful physical examination and other examinations by an internist. I suggest you book for a consultation to be seen by an internist.
Hope this helps. Do not hesitate asking further questions if need be. Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Luchuo, MD.
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