has anyone ever had a bronchoscopy?

I just did a week ago and slowly recovering. I had biopsies done along with a lavage... I've visited the ER twice in the past 4 days for chest pain and suffocation... yet all ct scans and vitals are ok.  

I am fine as long as i am resting but as soon as i do light activities i quickly get fatigued and when I've continued then chest pressure develops and I end up in the ER...

My pulmonologist doesnt know why... any experiences welcome

I have not had one but have assisted.  What are your biopsy results?  Seems like your airway is spasming which can be really scary.  There  isn't any obvious reason for your symptoms, I hope it lets up for you soon and you get a good report.

bronchoscopy - never had one - but had many patients post and never seemed to be a big deal... sounds like you need to find out what the problem is - so a test isn't too bad of a deal...

I have went through a dozen DR's for lung problems in the last 20 years  and none have ever found what is making me sick- I've had all the tests and they never show anything- none of their treatments has been what I would call the "cure".  I  always get better after a couple months and then I might be OK for 2 years. The Dr's get upset with me when I ask them why they can't come up with a good diagnosis. I am sure their is a Dr. out their somewhere who can diagnose  my problem and yours, too. Finding him/her  is the tricky part.

Maybe he left the bronchoscopy in your throat?  Run to the closest mirror and see if there is a long black hose looking thing hanging out of your mouth or nose?  It has a little dial on it and a long wire running off of it?  The only other thing I can think is that maybe he had just used the same scope to perform a colonoscopy and forgot to wash it before the next patient?

Lol, nah I don't know, I've assisted with a lot of them but dont know what the problems your having might be...  Other than the two guesses above!

I have not had a bronchoscopy but have had plenty pokes and jabs and endoscopys to last a life time.  When \i was in the hospital in \june with respitory failure, I was shocked to hear from the doctor that my lungs were completely clear.  So where was all the phlegm and mucus coming from and the cough was rattling that it sounded like liquid was everywhere.  Yet I was quite suprised and I believed the doctor was also.  It has been the second time \i have gone to the hospital in respitory failure. 

So this specialist sees my in the ER and says to me that he wants to admit me and wants to see what is going on with me.  \my temp. sky rocketed within a couple of hours of being in the ER as well.  This specialist was not a man of many words and I was exhausted from constant coughing I just didn't bother asking any more questions.  Eventually I got into a room.  The cough was unbearable not only to me but to the sick ladies in the room.  I felt bad, but they understood how sick I was too.

Crazy thing though that the lungs were completely clear, so  where is the infection in my body if not in my lungs.   within the next few days I have several other test to determine the condtion of my heart.  I could have told him nothing was wrong with my heart it was a perfect ticker.  Well wasn't I shocked when he told me that \i had a tear  in the right ventrical of my heart up by the pulmonary artery.  This is causing a fibrillation or more heart beats.  If this condtion worsens over the next while then I will require a pace maker. 

The specialist explained to me that infection can set in anywhere in the body and seems to attack the weaker part of the body, my respitory system.  On the 4th of  Sept. I have some kind of broncial test for 80 minutes and then about and hour or so later I come back and they do blood gas work up on me.  \yeah, lucky me.... just so long as they can give me an answer to this persistant cough and it is at times so severe that I stop breathing. 

Now I have to start therapy from the accident when \i was struck by a car while on my scooter. My back is still in spasm, tomorrow I am getting a different medication to help with the spasms and hopefully I will be able to get some relief with some injections in my spine.

May I ask you why you wanted to know all about the bronchoscopy?  Perhaps you said and I have forgotten.  I hope it isn't serious.  Be well and let us know how you are doing.

all the best

Orangefatcat                                      

well the doc says that looking at the follow up ct scan from last friday i have/had some saline solution fluid from the bronchoscopy. he also says that between the fluid, the biopsy wounds that's all triggering my breathing receptors to go nuts...

i had my tests and have two more this coming week, and I am not looking forward to them.  But I need them apparently to determine once and for all the severity of my asthma.  I am sure it is not that major.  At least I hope not and then in Oct. I have a CT scan of my sinusis to see if the problem first originated there or not.  Dr. says  that an infection any where in the  sinusis can cause a lot of problems for asthma patients as well.

 It also can cause a person to think they have asthma when in point of fact it is sign of  perhaps of something more serious. 

Life indeed is an enigma.

Orangefatcat.  

no you can't catch, enigma  ofc.

wow, orangefatcat... i hope things turn well for you... i am doing a little better tonight after 9 crazy days that have involved 2 ER visits (1 in ambulance) a couple of panic attacks caused apparently to respiratory distress, etc. I've started taking xanax yesterday and I seem to be doing a little better so hopefully we'll see in the next few days...

as far as your asthma I've heard that if you go buy honey from your local farmer's market that can actually be a good thing as that honey supposedly can help with allergy induced asthma because the honey is grown in your local allergen region....

I had one done when I was 8. Apparently it just came back saying I had asthma. I was then given 2 inhalers, which I lost when I moved house. I never had asthma bad though, very mild. Only 2 asthma attacks in my life. I haven't used an inhaler for years now. I hope your results turn out ok!

OFC- I sure hope your recovery goes OK. Just finding a DR that knows what to do would help!  I have had the asthma battery of tests done twice. In 1995 and again last year. They keep looking at asthma-easy diagnosis,  think, but the tests came back negative- as I expected. In fact the Dr. said I have the lung funtion of a man 20 years younger. I am hoping  that my retirement and  move back to Florida, with a more constant range of temperatures will help me stay healthy. I never got sick until I moved  back to the midwest in 1989.