Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Ever had fluid in your lungs?

Had the pneumonia 2 times and it was in the lower right lung both times.

Whenever i get x-rays they always get a sad look on their face because of all the scar tissue in the lower half of the right lung.

That crap will and can kill you for sure.

Seems like w all of the other respiratory diseases that folks don’t give pneumonia the serious threat that it deserves. It will kill you graveyard dead. Grind you down until you and antibiotics cannot fight it. Horrible stuff.

Yes. Good thing to avoid.

I had pneumonia late last month. Spent 3 nights in the hospital between Chandigarh new year. Not fun.

Almost died of double lung pneumonia about 14 years ago. One night in the hospital all doped up, coughing blood, I made my peace that I'd be in the morgue by morning. I still don't know how I pulled through and that night was apparently the turning point. Strange feeling when you're realistically looking at death. Got single lung in 2016 and now my lung function is schit.

Hold my beer..... Got 900ml out of my left lung after I had pancreatitis..... everything down there got so swollen and inflamed it caused the fluid build up..... stuck about a 6" needle in my back under x-Ray lol.

Had pneumonia twice, not recommended. If you really want some fun have pulmonary edema after surgery. Lungs suck in fluid. Little female doc got on top of me and got a breathing tube down my throat to lungs. Said I was foaming blood like a lung shot deer. 3 days on life support in ICU.

Fluid in the lung.(within the alveoli) is like pulmonary edema or pneumonia .
Unilateral Pulmonary Edema can cloak pneumonia by showing similar clinical findings.
Fluid on the lung/ Pleural Effusion, is accumulation between parietal and visceral
pleura of the pleural cavity.

Alveolar hypoxia (poor lung gas exchange) increases pulmonary vascular pressure
resulting in increased heart afterload, leading to pulmonary hypertension, which forces
fluid into the interstitial space and lung alveoli/air sacs..(think increased microvascular
hydrostatic pressure)

Inflammation immune response in respiratory infection naturally results in increased
permeability of capillary endothelial layer permitting increased passage of fluid.
Permeability also allows immune system cells easier access to the site of infection.

No but I did have an Epididymitis once...

I will NOT be posting pics.

Pneumonia three times. Second when I was 40 caused by CHF, spent a week in the hospital. Last January double pneumonia from Covid, only spent a couple days in the hospital for that one but I was down and out for well over a month.

Very informative post on pulmonary Starman - will add some experiential dots.

Yep, had viral pneumonia, as a teenager !

Luckily, I was fit as fugk & came through it unscathed.

Dad, has scaring on his lungs, from the same bout.

Albuterol, although designed to be a short acting Beta-2 adrenergic agonist
smooth muscle bronchodilator, can result in Paradoxical Bronchospasm and
even anaphylaxis.. data indicates significant number of patients have shown
reduced FEV-1 (forced expiratory volume) as result of Albuterol..having said that ,
Albuterol can be prescribed Off label to assist breathing in pneumonia.
Ephedrine being a broncho-dilator and decongestant would be a smarter option
for pneumonia or bronchial asthma (as an OTC product) on the proviso ones
baseline cardiac condition is up to it, for it's mechanism of action involves; Alpha,
Beta-1 and Beta-2 receptors.