Living with one lung

Hi, our son was born with one lung and he is 21 now. He seems to be doing well now. Can you send me your email so we compare notes, so to speak. Thanks!

i really want to know what will be happen about the baby born with one lung? it really hard for me to know that my one and only baby boy had born with one lung?please help me to know what we need to do? thank you.

Hello I'm looking up random things and I came to this page anyways I'm turning 13 in a day and I was born with one lung. I also have no diaphragm and a net in my stomach that if it brakes I die and my heart was on the wrong side of the body. But living with one lung is okay most of the time you forget you have one lung it is very difficult for me to play any sports that involve a lot of running because I get out of breath in 15 seconds luckly I have an inhaler that I don't notice that it helps but I do notice how hard it is to run without it. But yeah living with one lung is okay it just affects your running :)

Hello I'm 13 years old and I was born with one lung i had to have oxygen but that's all that I know of.

My husband had a lung removed. He had lung cancer. That was two years ago and he just finished chemo. One winter night, he felt like he was not getting enough air. It was 27 degrees. He opened all the doors and windows. I called an ambulance. After many tests being run, his lung doctor told him he was having panic attacks. It was a case of panicking and then not being able to breathe -- not the other way around, which surprised us. He has been on Xanax and Effexor since then. He is fine as long as he takes Xanax every six hours.

I am 66 this month. I had My left lung removed in April of 2015. It was a little tough at first but I pushed. The doctor wanted Me on a tread mill twice daily for 45 min. each time . I hate tread mills so I started walking outside. within 4 months I was walking 6 miles a day. until Dec. when I broke My leg. I was down for 10 weeks or so and had to start over . I am back up to 3 miles a day and I even run a small part of that . I also work 20 to 26 hours a week. I only have problems when I get a cold . Then I get a bit more winded. . However I still walk ,only slower . Life is pretty much normal . I haven't tried to Jitterbug yet but am going to try soon . That was My favorite thing to do . cherry

I was 24 in 1996 when i was in a very bad car accident.......I had a full size van hit me at the speed of 55, and push the passenger door clear over to me in the diver seat...I was out cold, i was told later by my father," that the medic said i was bleeding to death internally". I had about 20 to 30 holes in my right lung.....Do to all the breaks i had in my right rib cage...The surgeon told me later, that they fixed 20 to 30 holes in my lung..They fill the lung up with air, and things really got worse for me...My right lung had so may holes in it, that it look like a cat just just sunk it claws in my lung....It would not hold air...They stabilized me until, my parents could drive 2 hours form Wellston, Ohio to Grant Hospital in Columbus, Ohio...They told my parents to get there quick, so they could see me alive possible for the last time..The surgeon gave me a 20% to survive surgery...They were going to remove my complete right lung, and stitch up some areas, that was also torn and punctured...I had lost so much blood that when my dad seen me before i went under the knife, that he ran his hand threw my hair and found a 4 inch gash...They did not catch it do to the loss of blood...I woke up from an induced comma several days later...Could not remember the car wreck, could not remember how to add and spell... Did not remember who the beautiful lady was, setting by my bed, and crying...She said, she was so happy to know my chances of living increased...Seeing that i was not going to be keep in a medical induced comma, and was awake...I asked her who she was, and her Heart was torn apart...I just could not remember hardly and thing...I told her to go home and rest, that i will be o.k. She was 3 months pregnant, and i did not remember it or even know...My mind hurt so much from trying to remember, then came the seizures...I came threw and i felt so tired and even more confused.. When the doctor told me what they had to do, removing the lung. They counted 3 to 4 breaks in each rib on the right side. The seizures, the pain from all the breaks in rib cage, and not being able remembering my parents, the wreck, and Kim my soon to be wife before the wreck...The more i would push myself to try to remember who i was, what i did, my family, the wreck would cause me to stutter, and going into a seizure...The pain was so bad that they had to give me a spinal Tap, something like women get during child berth..Along with a button to push ever 12 min. for morphine to go into my I.V. I was in denial...I would gathering all the strength i had, and grab the metal post that my I.V. was hanging off, and i would pray for god to give me the strength.. To be able to just walk 50 feet in the hall way and back to my room....I made it to outside my room, and fell straight on my face, broke my nose, and went into another seizure.. This happen in Oct. 17, 1996 in two months. It will have been 20 years, that i lived with one lung and a deformed right rib cage. A scare that starts in the center of my chest and goes clear around my right side to the middle of my back... It took a long time to remember most of my family. Even worse Kim the girl that was soon to be my wife and was 3 months pregnant with my beautiful daughter..I felt no connection, and love for her....I felt like i was dead inside..I felt lost, and i felt like i was living away from home...I had no idea who i was and my parents did not fell like my family....I was lost...I was told by my mother, that she led me into payer when i was 7..To ask Christ into my heart, that he died on the cross for me, you, everyone, and he rose from the dead 3 days later, Jesus Christ was in my soul and heart and he was my savior...Anyway I Prayed, and Prayed that he would heal me of the Physical and Mental Pain, to let me remember my family, to remember who i had love for like Kim...To take away my Panic attacks, to take away the feeling of not feeling like i am at home with my family, the people who love me and i did for them, until the wreck...To please be able to get some help from the Government, until one day that i have the physical ability to hold a job and my mental Health got better...Well the Government turned me down for S.S.I. and Disability.... 2 times after 1996, and working on trying again for the fourth time since 2009...My family would let me work in the office, of there family Owned Business," Zimmerman School Equipment"..They had to let me go, after trying it from 2005 to 2010...I figured they were paying me to take phone calls, to try and clean the Office, and take the trash out...While trying to work, i was having speech issues from studering, slurred speech, and having seizures, and issues from P.T.S.D. and Bipolar....I was taking up to 8 to 10 different medications....from pain meds, to Xanax, inhalers, solution meds to have to use a breathing machine in the morning ever day.. 2 different anti-depressants, lyrica for nerve pain..Even pure Oxygen...The state has helped me by giving me a medical card, and 200.00 a moth food card, and 115.00 a month in cash a month....My meds would cost around 1,120.00 dollar's a month and if this s.s.i. or disability does not go threw hear soon, the state is going to take my medical card..I guess there is a limit on how long they can give me help 3 years..I see Physiologist once a month, tell him about the nightmares of being trapped in a car, and not being able to breath, about the fear that runs my life, when having to have someone to drive me to my doc. apps. Most of the time i have a dam seizure just from having to get in a car and travel...I don't drive and it scares the living hell out of me, from having to get in a car.. I have had really bad issues with being around people, the worst is thanksgiving, Christmas...I can't handle just even being around my children, even my grand daughter...I feel like i am putting so much stress, and hurt in my family's life...I feel no connection to them at all, and i cause them so much problems and pain, do to the help i need like asking one of them to going to the store for me or take me to an doc. app.. I feel so distant from Christ, and wonder if i am saved...I am losing my faith in Christ, and the ability to handle the simplest things in life..I have pushed everyone in my life away....My children have suffered the worst, along with my sister, and my father and mother...I have no friends anymore, i just dont have the desire to even talk or even having people around me, in my parents garage... I wish i didn't cause hurt, and pain in my family's life.. When my parents pass away, i will have lost the befits of having to of the best parents a kid could have...There time is getting short do to there own health issues.. I really feel that all my medical, and mental issues and the stress of needed them for rides to the doc. and for them to go to the food store...Is nothing but pain, stress, and even anger over my medical issues...I over heard my dad telling my mother that i should be in a nursing home......I just wish christ would hear my prayers and bless me with the help of s.s.i. or disability.... So i would not be so much trouble and hurt that my family are going threw over me.. I am happy for all the people that are surviving with one lung.. I pray for them that having one lung does not cause issues in there family life's like mine is to my family... I just know that maybe it would have been best, that i did not survive...I dont care want anyone says, but dealing with a family member that is physically and mentally disabled, will tear apart and destroy family..It is not fair to them that they have to suffer with stress, and the pain in the ass, that "I AM TO MY FAMILY and to the TAX PAYERS MONEY"...That i have been asking for help of THE UNTIED STATES OF AMERICA with the s.s.i and disability BEFITS..When you need help for being disabled and the government turns you down 3 times and the 4th one is close to being over....My point is my Health and mentally issues are taking away my parents time to enjoy life, and my relationship with my children is a dream to have to me...They dont want to have to help a man, that they hardly even know or seen..So my time on this world is getting close to being over, cause if the Government turns me down for the 4th time, then i am left with no choice but to bring peace, and the pain in the ass i am for having 1 lung at the age of 44 with Mental issues of P.S.T.D. and being bipolar, seizures, fear of leaving the garage i live in, and not being able to even go outside do to the heat, or cold and not being able to handle even the outside conditions...I will ask god for one more prayer to take me off this planet and if it goes unanswered like most prayers lately....Then find a way to disappear, and make my death look like an accident...So my parents and my children, and my family will not have to deal with more hurt.. Do to the fact i will take my own life, and pray that Christ forgives me and that i am saved... I just can not handle the physical pain and me natl pain anymore...So my parents and children and sister, and family can enjoy there time, and not to have to worry about who is going to take me to the doc, and to go to the store for me, to not be a issue for them.....Who ever reads this please pray for me and my family, that i may get some help form the government.. So i can get the help i need to possible be able to be more independent, and not to be so much pressure on my family... I just got this feeling that i am praying for something, that the U.S. Gov.. would give to illegal people in the u.s. in a HEART BEAT... An Illegal Immigrant ARE JUST MORE IMPORTANT THAN AN AMERICAN THAT IS MIDDLE AGED WITH MENTAL ILLNESS... THANKS FOR READING THIS.... GABRIEL GRANT of Wellston,Ohio a U.S. VET...LORD IN HEAVEN...I PRAY TO YOU IN YOUR SON NAME, JESUS CHRIST for help, and to be forgiving for taking my life, or to be healed or helped with my physical and mental issues..Lord, i am just so tired and worn out to fight and praying for you bless me, and forgive me of my sins, and to be forgiven for being nothing but pain in my parents lives, and for never being there for my children, and my sister...I am so tried lord...In your sons name i pray, thru Jesus Christ for you to hear my prayes, Amen....

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How is the sex life with only one lung?

Hi I just had my rt lung removed due to cancer. Does shortness of breath get better? I'm afraid this is going to be my future.

myself appu 30yrs old i too having single lung from birth..please where r u from Please........!

I'm a female never had any lung issues yet in 2011 after my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and radical mastectomy I was CT scanned and found no breast issues BUT a massive tumor left lung age 59. I am non smoker , the tumor was very rare. A fibermyoblastic tumor. The complete removal of lung was a surprise. Very painful , slow recovery. Today 5 yrs. later I never gave up. In Colorado Rockies hiking biking fishing and using occasionally an oxygen concentrater. Shortness of breath yes, anxiety yes ( especially when snorkeling) I "suck it up" because God has blessed me with more precious years with my family. Difficult yes, but, not impossible, even at my age of 64. Hang in there lungless people, slow down when you need to, BUT, most importantly, enjoy in life all of God's gifts and appreciate every extra breath ♥

My husband had his lung removed 2 years ago. Sex life changed considerably for us. First there was recovery from surgery and then concerns about his breathing - the concerns were very much mine rather than his but I was anxious for him and just wanted to make sure he could climax without getting too breathless so it was over quite quickly. I can honestly say it has never been the same for us although it is now improving.

My Right lung was removed when I was 24 year old due to carcinoid tumor of right lung..I don't have any problems so far.Now I am 39 year old.I get short of breath if I run or climbing more than 2 flight of stairs