I'm scared. Yesterday I went to visit my Dad in the hospital (he has pheumonia) and I had a bad coughing spell in his room. I have had this cough for about 3 months. I am a smoker and wish I wasn't. After my visit with Dad yesterday I went to my family doctor and I was lucky enough to get in to see him. That shocked me! I told the doctor I wanted a chest xray which was done. The xray showed a pea sized white spot on my left lung. I did some research on the net and below this is what I read. I fell about 2 weeks in my yard and I am thinking I bruised my left lung. I have had pleurisy once in the past. I read the "C" word below and I am scared sh**less now. The doctor gave me some antibiotics and an inhaler and he told me he would have the cardiologist look at my films today. I am having back surgery soon and if anything comes up where I have to cancel this surgery I will be ticked off. I am freaking out about this spot on my lung. If the doctor calls me today and wants me in for more testing I will totally freak out!!!!!

Air takes up almost all of the space in your lungs, and air shows up on chest X-rays and computed tomography scans (CT or "CAT" scans) as dark patches. If you have a gray or white "spot" on your X-ray or CT scan, cancer is one possible explanation, but it is not the only one. A spot like this in the lung is also called a "solitary pulmonary nodule" or in some cases, a "coin lesion."

It is hard to estimate what fraction of lung nodules are from cancer, because most studies that estimate the frequency of cancer are looking at nodules of only one size, or looking only at nodules that have persisted over time. In one report of about 60 nodules that were 1 centimeter in size or smaller, cancer was the cause of about half of the nodules.

Hi Fishlady, so you knew deep down inside that you needed to go get a physical exam? Please continue to follow up on this, okay. Keep us posted.

Oh no. :( I'm sorry. I hope it's nothing.

Saying prayers for you; keep us posted, k?

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The spot on my lung turned out to be nothing. TG I was given by the doctor a 5 day antibiotic therapy to start on. My cough is getting really bad. I find I cough more when I am laying down. I still wonder why I can't kick this cough. If I don't think about it I won't worry. I am having back surgery on June 19th so that is keeping my mind occupied right now.

Fishlady it must be an infection if they gave you an antibiotic and now the infection needs to clear and that will take some time. Whew, glad it wasn't too bad! The infection must drain better when you lay down?

Fishlady it must be an infection if they gave you an antibiotic and now the infection needs to clear and that will take some time. Whew, glad it wasn't too bad! The infection must drain better when you lay down?

I know smoking is not helping with this cough. My cough is getting better due to taking the antibiotics. Last week I had a CT on my chest. My internal medicine doctor called and said it looked OK. They want me to have another one in 3 months to make sure this spot is not getting bigger. I can't help but worry when I think about it. While talking with this doctor I was telling him how some mornings I get sick after drinking about 1/4 cup of coffee first thing in the morning. No, I'm not pregnant. It reminds me of when I was pregnant 29 years ago though. So anyways, he tells me it sounds like stomach ulcers. He put me on Ranitidine. It seems to be helping some what!

My back surgery was changed to June 14th. That is my date to quit smoking. Wish me luck!

I hope you all had a good holiday weekend. I stayed home and had a relaxing weekend with a friend of mine. I worked in the yard and he cooked the meals. I'm not used to that but, I sure enjoyed it.