I Have Recently Hospitalized Due To Shortness Of Breath Coughing Up Blood And Extreme Fatigue. They Did A C/t Scan Xray And Found Several "areas Of Concern" But After Many Blood Tests For All The Obvious Probable Causes We Got All Negative Results. I Am Home Now And Trying To Function Day To Day Some Good Some Real Bad,i Cant Get Out Of Bed And I Cough Large Amounts Of Blood. I Am On Prednesone And Advair Which Seem To Help Some. What Could This Be My Doctor Wants Me To Take Another T/b Test Under The Skin Tomorrow But At Best I Think He Is Stumped.......im Scared

hi robbie,
i feel for you ,but you have given me some hope , ive had lots of chest infections and antibiotics i was a smocker but gave up the beginning of the year, i have a chest infection now and i have hashis underactive thyroid also i been given inhalers a few times i cough blood up on occasions and its very scarey i also understand that a few times that the doc checked my chest it was in the bottom left lung, always and now after a few years he sends me for a chest exray and im thinking the worst any ideas????? i also suffer from anxiety so you can imagine what im going through thanks for reading anyone and its helped me just to talk to you .
loads of love to you robbie love from kat

Hello,
When I cough up blood it is coming from bronchiectasis. Have they done a bronchoscopy on your lungs to check for that? For me they say it is a blood vessel in the diseased area that collapses and the blood comes out of it and it comes up in my throat.

Also, have they checked you for mycobacterium avium complex (MAC)?