Hi...honestly I'm just hoping someone has experience or is an xray tech etc.
My DS 21 has always been very active, played sports throughout, goes to the gym regularly and is a fit young man. He's also never struggled with mental health in the past. He currently lives 1.5 hrs. from home at college.
In Jan. he had a bit of a cold and mentioned that he had been having a hard time breathing and has chest pains off/on. He actually started crying on the phone (he's not a cryer, but I think was just really frustrated and a lil freaked out.) At the time it had been going on for almost a week off and on. He said itvwas like he couldn't takeba deep breath. I told him to go to urgent care, which he did. They did an EKG which came back fine. They just said he had heart palpitations and it could just be stress/anxiety. I asked them to do a chest xray. They did and everything came back normal, but it says it showed hyperinflated lungs. - When asked the Dr. just said it meant he took a deep breath during the xray. We didn't question it at the time, because we're not Dr.s, but as soon as I got to the car I googled it and that isn't at all what it means according to google (it's quite the opposite which really matched his symptoms.) I went over some breathing excerises and it seemed t help a bit. He did follow up with his military PCM (he's never seen the guy before) abd again the dr. said hyperinflated lungs meant he took a deep breath (again I can find nothing that matches this assessment online).
He seemed to start feeling better and his breathing seemed better (not 100% normal, but better). However a cpl. days ago it started again. He says he gets a sharp pain in his chest when he tries to. take a deep breath. His systolic blood pressure is also a bit high for him (135/69, 140/70) over the last cpl. days.
Any thoughts or ideas as to what hyperinflated lungs on a chest xray report means. - Does it somehow actually mean you took a deep breath even though all I can find is that it's the opposite?
He tried calling his PCM again today, but as ridiculous as it sounds itsa real PITA to get them to answer the phones correctly. There phone lines go down constantly- known problem, but they say nothing they can do. Since they switched their online portal we also can't book appointments online, so while we're working on another appointment, itsa struggle. I am going to try to go with him this next time as I'm hoping to get actual answers or get referred to a specialist. I remember being young and even now you can feel like a real idiot trying to advocate for yourself when they expert isn't thorough.
Any thoughts/experience/opinions is appreciated.
My DS 21 has always been very active, played sports throughout, goes to the gym regularly and is a fit young man. He's also never struggled with mental health in the past. He currently lives 1.5 hrs. from home at college.
In Jan. he had a bit of a cold and mentioned that he had been having a hard time breathing and has chest pains off/on. He actually started crying on the phone (he's not a cryer, but I think was just really frustrated and a lil freaked out.) At the time it had been going on for almost a week off and on. He said itvwas like he couldn't takeba deep breath. I told him to go to urgent care, which he did. They did an EKG which came back fine. They just said he had heart palpitations and it could just be stress/anxiety. I asked them to do a chest xray. They did and everything came back normal, but it says it showed hyperinflated lungs. - When asked the Dr. just said it meant he took a deep breath during the xray. We didn't question it at the time, because we're not Dr.s, but as soon as I got to the car I googled it and that isn't at all what it means according to google (it's quite the opposite which really matched his symptoms.) I went over some breathing excerises and it seemed t help a bit. He did follow up with his military PCM (he's never seen the guy before) abd again the dr. said hyperinflated lungs meant he took a deep breath (again I can find nothing that matches this assessment online).
He seemed to start feeling better and his breathing seemed better (not 100% normal, but better). However a cpl. days ago it started again. He says he gets a sharp pain in his chest when he tries to. take a deep breath. His systolic blood pressure is also a bit high for him (135/69, 140/70) over the last cpl. days.
Any thoughts or ideas as to what hyperinflated lungs on a chest xray report means. - Does it somehow actually mean you took a deep breath even though all I can find is that it's the opposite?
He tried calling his PCM again today, but as ridiculous as it sounds itsa real PITA to get them to answer the phones correctly. There phone lines go down constantly- known problem, but they say nothing they can do. Since they switched their online portal we also can't book appointments online, so while we're working on another appointment, itsa struggle. I am going to try to go with him this next time as I'm hoping to get actual answers or get referred to a specialist. I remember being young and even now you can feel like a real idiot trying to advocate for yourself when they expert isn't thorough.
Any thoughts/experience/opinions is appreciated.