4 weeks out for Chattanooga IM and Lung issue???
Any medical advice would be great. Someone suggest to post this here. I am 4 weeks out from IM Chattanooga. No issue until this. I do have a slight cold and felt a tiny bit congested but read below. This happened about 24 hours ago. I am feeling alot better and i am healing but still have stabbing pains in lower right lung. I want to know any thoughts, advice, etc. ER said sorry, nothing is wrong with you as I was clearly in pain and left the ER room barely hanging onto my sanity from the stabbing pain. Now, it is a dull stab, way less severe but still there. Almost feels like a really bad deep chest cold without the cold if that makes sense.
This is what I posted in my team forum:
Uggg. I ended up in the ER yesterday. I thought I had a collapsed lung. They did an EKG and a CAT scan and found NOTHING. I was in so much pain and (still in pain today but not nearly as bad but it is still there). Feels like I am stabbed in the lower right lung. I could not inhale and could only shallow breathe once the "stabbing" happened and it lasted from 1pm until I was able to get on the pain meds which took the edge off. After the first 3-4 hours I was able to get a bit of a deeper breath in. A few days prior to this, espeically the evening before I have been continuously trying to yawn and get big gulps of oxygen but couldn't. When the big stab happened, I had a series of really big unsuccessful yawns. and then STAB. excruciating pain. I have not been to the hospital since having my kids almost 16 years ago so I was surprised that the pain was that bad that I said I need to go in. I also thought once i got there, it would all go away like that happens when you go to the doc and all of a sudden you don't know where it hurts. but it hurt like hell.
I took pain meds they prescribed just to get some relief and got good night sleep. Woke up this morning hoping it would just go away since they cleared me with finding absolutely nothing. My blood pressure was up when they first took my vitals and by the time I was discharged 4-5 hours later it was back down. I had planned on going swimming this morning if I woke up and felt normal. I got up and felt good for about 20 min while getting my bag ready but then the pain popped up again and now it is just a light stab.
Muscle cramp? Any ideas or anyone have this happen to them ever? I also have a slight cold and I feel the stab when i both inhale and exhale. What would you do? Ugggh. Seriously so close to race. I am sure I will be fine but more concerned about missing these workouts right now.
Any case my husband talked me out of going on the swim this morning (as I was just gonna go and see how I felt ) and just let it rest for another day. I hope it gets better through the day so i can do my workout tomorrow. I was planning on getting my long run (16-18 miles) in on Sun as I was moving my workouts around. I was going to bike yesterday to get some extra biking since i moved things around but that obviously did not happen.
Comments
STAND DOWN! Rest now or pay later.
The hay is the barn. Better to heal than to continue to stress a part of your body that is obviously injured and is communicating CLEARLY with the owner. That little virus you have may have given you a pleuritic pain. If ok with your doctor NSAIDS are often better with that style of pain. Nothing you do right now is more important than rest and healing. Do some SAU's and take a nap.
I hope you feel better soon.