Cardio's take on my pleural rub
Cardio's take on my pleural rub
Thank y'all for your words of encouragement! I have seen my cardio since developing the rub. In fact, the morning it first developed, I was concerned, my cardio was on vacation, and his back-up dr. told me to go to the emergency room to get tests done (no mention of rub at the time, they thought I might have a chest infection). Tests in the emergency room (after four hours) revealed nothing in the chest x-ray, blood work clean, and EKG normal. They "speculated" it was "some kind of friction between my lungs and my chest wall". I endured, and saw my cardio upon his return a week later. He immediately diagnosed it as pleural rub. Truthfully the rub isn't painful, it's more of an "uncomfortable" feeling and distressing as it persists. I must not have a severe case or a full-blown pleurisy like Abbanabba had, thankfully. My cardio feels my Dressler's is clearing up (no pain from breathing and no spontaneous cough or shortness of breath) and the rub is a leftover symptom of lingering inflammation. So, he just said monitor it and it should dissipate eventually. I trust him, so I'm not panicking, it's just that I worry about how long it will take to clear up and what it might mean in the long term or about my prognosis with Dressler's if it persists. We'll see, I guess.
Thanks again for your kind words of support.
Dave