Pretty scary
When the doc says "its out," I'm not sure what he means. Can you get a copy of your report and type the "IMPRESSION" part in so we can look at it, and maybe the T4 info.
T4 is your thoracic vertebra at the 4th level. That's hard tissue. Disc are soft tissue. So the bony part of your spine has a definite problem. If the doc wasn't too alarmed, (although it was an emergency situation at the time you arrived) then it should be okay. Meaning, the bone problem should heal on its own, maybe. It did not puncture your lung. That's a good thing. It sounds like it was either suppressing the nerves that go to your pulmonary function or maybe, just guessing here, blocking your bronchial tube. I thought the nerve roots for breathing were in the cervcial spine area. It could be in thoracic area too.
My first thought would be an orthopedist, for bone issues.
Maybe a pulmonologist for lung.
don't know if this has much info, but it does have a lot of breathing info.
http://books.google.com/books?id=j-g...snum=2#PPT1,M1
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Originally Posted by hisbeauty4ashes
Hi my friends here.
I had a sudden trauma through my upper back last Tuesday at 5:30am that I felt like I was having a heart attack that I had to call 911 cause I could not move the pain was so crippling and over whelming and I could not breath. The ambulance came and picked me up and took me to the Hospital they took blood tests and found my Pancreas was inflamed and that they may have been the cause. Then they had a GI doctor come in and run a test and low and behold my stomach lining was bleeding it was like gee what in the heck is all this going on with me! Then the doctor thought I am going to do an MRI test on her and see just by chance if her T4 is out in her spine it is hardly likely it would be, but we will do it that anyway. Well low and behold my T 4 was out and he said it was protruding my lung. I was like what in the world! What does that mean? He said, if I rested for a few weeks it should stay in place and heal.I had never ever heard of that before in my life nor do I ever want to experience again. just got out of the Hospital last night.
I could not make much sense out of this doctor and I asked him a million questions I felt I was not getting them answered.
Can you please help me.I felt like the pain went through my back and into my chest and stomach and I could not breath and it was the worst pain I ever experienced! I never want to experience it ever again.
Can someone Please explain to me what is a T4 I am looking some of it up and can it really heal itself? What are the chanced this will ever happen again? Also how can it protrude in the lung? Should I see a specialist on this? I feel like I am shoot in the back everyday and it goes through my chest. The doctor did the test by chance cause he said this happens to one in a million.
I just can not believe this is happening.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Jeanie  |