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I had my first collapse May 10th then again June 8th; at that time my doctor consulted with some other doctors and they decided that doing a pleurodesis could be beneficial and help prevent further collapses. Unfortunately, even with the surgery, I just got another one on Friday (27th). All of...

I started inhaled collistin about a month ago and at the same time I also started a PE class-exercising 3 days a week for an hour. Around that time my stools started not being so great-greasy and fatty. I tried upping my enzymes and that didn't help. I recently got a newer batch of my...

Ok, I've tried looking at some of the old posts on feeding tubes, but I can't really relate to any of them because they were about removing them or whether or not a young child should get one. I'm 5'6 and weigh-currently 95 pounds. I'm usually around 100-102 (102 puts me at the very bottom of my...

I've been thinking about asking my doctor about getting a port put in because I seem to be going on IV antibiotics rather frequently and am getting tired of all the picc lines and pokes. I was wondering how you get a port put in and how much it hurt and any other information about them.

My friend coughs up blood a lot. The doctor's say it could be from an infection, or it could be because he coughs so much and strains his lungs and makes him cough it up, which has happend to me, but not that often. It seems that he's always coughing up blood. I'm just curious to see if anybody...

I'm a senior in highschool right now and I've been thinking a lot about what to do for college. I finally had decided to apply to one school about an hour away from my home and if I didn't get into it then I would just go to my community college. However, after my last hospital stay (got out on...

When I went on an antibiotic called Cipro in May I had some sort of reaction to it and I got cold sores on my lips. Luckily I ended up stopping Cipro to go on IV antibiotics Tobramycin and Merem and the cold sores stopped coming. I started to take Cipro again about two weeks ago and took it for...

I was hoping to get some responses by posting here instead of in the teens section (which I tried and haven't received any responses from), hope nobody minds! Anyways, I found out yesterday that I have osteoporosis and I was wondering if anyone else has it and what it has been like for them.

Does anybody else have osteoporosis? I just found out today that I have it and I wanted to hear about other people's experiences with it.

I had a catscan done a couple of weeks ago on my lungs, and in the catscan you can see part of my liver; it was somewhat enlarged. Today I had a catscan done on my liver, as well as a few other things, I think the gallbladder, intestines, stomach, that area along with the liver. I was wondering...