Please help - Lung & Respiratory Disorders / COPD Message Board

skizzie · 06-15-2003, 04:32 PM

My sister and I just moved from VA to Nashville in January. About 1 month after we moved I started to dry cough and that lasted for about 3-4 weeks. It went away, however, since then I have had a LOW GRADE(98.7-99.5) fever and my lungs feel wierd when I breathe. It's hurts on the right side when I breathe but today my lungs feel like I am breathing in cold air or something. I thought it was just my problem, but my sister, about 1 month after I got sick, came down with the same dry cough and it lasted for about 1-2 weeks. She ran fever for about 1-2 months after, and even though her fever has subsided, she said she still has a wierd feeling in the base of her throat when she breathes and it's always there. She said it feels like it's a cold day and she's been running. I went to the doc last week and lung x-rays and blood tests came back normal. Any ideas what this could be? It's driving me crazy. Chemicals from the new apartment or new area?......also bad indigestion and swollen lymph nodes occasionally. Sometimes the fever is not there and the lungs feel better at times than other times...

thanks for the help

plm · 06-15-2003, 05:45 PM

Did the doctor just say the xrays and blood look fine, so that's the end? Or did he have any ideas? I'm wondering if you might have some type of viral infection and then passed it on to your sister. Or would a viral infection show up in blood work? If the doctor has no ideas, don't just let it drop. Go to a pulmonary doctor. Maybe they will have a better idea. Could it possibly be allergies? Did the doctor make any suggestions at all?

skizzie · 06-15-2003, 06:04 PM

The doctor made no reply at all. I have thought everything from Sarcoidosis to Tuberculosis to Lupus to even HIV. I wouldn't think with any of these except TB, I'd give it to my sister? I even had an HIV test done and it came back negative. These aren't symptoms of that anyway, are they? The doctor had me get my lungs x-rayed and a blood test and I couldn't believe nothing came back from the x-ray. I mean, what else could cause the pain if the x-ray didn't pick it up?

Thanks again for any help.....

wrin · 06-17-2003, 09:17 PM

If you had TB, or even sarcoidosis, the X-ray would most likely have looked funny, as I understand it.

For a second there I was thinking something like a pleural effusion, but since the x-rays came back normal, don't know what to say, precisely.

All I can suggest is possibly a lung function test, and if everything comes back totally normal... I haven't the foggiest.