Please help

You need to speak with your Dr. and ask him/her the questions you have about

your health.  Insist on getting every question answered, don't leave until you

feel that you know what is going on with you.  Sure that you will get answers from

people on this forum, just keep in mind that none of us are doctors.  Good luck.

Burning in the lungs from my own experience is what I call lung inflammation, but often when the doctors listen to my lungs in this situation they hear crackling and a lung infection is diagnosed for this I am prescribed prednisolone (for the inflammation) and anti biotics for any infection.l

I said to my respiratory nurse I often only have the inflammed burning lung symptom when I get a 'lung infection'  the respiratory nurse then tol me I may just need to take the prednisolone in these circumstances.  However that is what I have been told and what you are experience will need guidance by your own medical professionals.

Is the oximeter your own that you are checking on?  If so it could be inaccurate, certain things affect it and the readings may not be accurage.  These things can be check on a PR course, or check your oximeter against one used by a medical professional.

If your blood oxygen checked by a medical professionals oximeter registers 100% its unlikely you will be referred for a arteriel blood gas check.  So with confirmed blood oxygen at 100% you will not be prescribed oxygen.  100% oxygen saturation means you have optimal blood oxygen saturation, exceptionally good in other words.

Xrays can come back good - meaning you don't have a lung infection,  emphysema in my case didn't show on ordinary xrays but lung infections do.   

I think you need to get the mra scan done, the vascular tests, venus return checks, CT scan.  Barium meal etc etc.  there are loads that can be done to determin what the problem is, its a question of going through them all to find out what the problem is or is not.

What is blood pooling in the legs???  Do you mean excessive bruising?  Assuming you are communicating all of the symptoms you have mentioned here to the medical professionals, as these will help them arrive at possible causes and diagnosis.  We can diagnose or advise what is wrong in your case but your doctors can with a process of tests.

Perhaps you need to wait and see what your diagnosis is before getting any comparisons of those already diagnosed and of course if your diagnosis is not a lung issue then it would inadvisable for you to seek advice and comparisons from those have lung issues and this could well steer in an entirely incorrect direction.

Before medication are prescribed usually there has to be a diagnosis in order for the correct treatment to be prescribed.

Best wishes for your test results.

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Burning in the lungs from my own experience is what I call lung inflammation, but often when the doctors listen to my lungs in this situation they hear crackling and a lung infection is diagnosed for this I am prescribed prednisolone (for the inflammation) and anti biotics for any infection.

I said to my respiratory nurse I often only have the inflammed burning lung symptom when I get a 'lung infection'  the respiratory nurse then told me I may just need to take the prednisolone in these circumstances.  However that is what I have been told and what you are experiencing will need guidance by your own medical professionals.

Is the oximeter your own that you are checking on?  If so it could be inaccurate, certain things affect oximeters and the readings may not be accurate.  These things are usually checked as part of the PR course, you can check your oximeter against one used by a medical professional to be sure of its accuracy.

If your blood oxygen checked by a medical professionals oximeter registers 100% its unlikely you will be referred for a arteriel blood gas check.  So with confirmed blood oxygen at 100% you will not be prescribed oxygen.  100% oxygen saturation means you have optimal blood oxygen saturation, exceptionally good in other words.

Xrays can come back good - meaning you don't have a lung infection, or shadows on the lungs,  emphysema in my case didn't show on ordinary xrays but lung infections do.   In my case emphysema was diagnosed after a CT scan. 

I think you need to get the mra scan done, the vascular tests, venus return checks, CT scan.  Barium meal etc etc.  there are loads of tests that can be done to determine what the problem is, its a question of going through them all to find out what the problem is or is not.

What is blood pooling in the legs???  Do you mean excessive bruising?  Assuming you are communicating all of the symptoms you have mentioned here to the medical professionals, as these will help them arrive at possible causes and result in tests leading toward a diagnosis.  We cannot diagnose or advise what is wrong in your case but your doctors can with a process of tests.

Perhaps you need to wait and see what your diagnosis is before getting any comparisons of those already diagnosed.  If your diagnosis is not a lung issue then it would be inadvisable for you to seek advice and comparisons from those have diagnosed lung issues as this could well steer you in an entirely incorrect direction.

There has to be a diagnosis first before the correct treatment / medication can  be prescribed.

Best wishes for your test results.

Where are you living, U.S., Europe, or UK.  I would suggest that you see a cardiologist or vascular cardiologist to be more specific....I have not heard of any of these problems associated with COPD./Emphysema etc.  If your chest is burning something is wrong, and I would make dang sure they did a MRI with contrast, and possibly a saline wash to see what in the world is going on.  If you pulse ox levels are normal then something else is going on.  I will say a prayer for you but by all means, don't take just one doctors opinion (remember they are only practicing medicine)   get yourself to a specialist.  And demand that they do something to find out what is wrong with you.  On this end, I am certain the group will send up plenty of prayers and we will continue to check on you.  Keep us posted as to what they tell you.  Breathless but grateful to be breathing.