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Leaking air inside chest
Pneumomediastinum is air in the mediastinum. The mediastinum is the space in the middle of the chest, between the lungs.
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What are the tests for leaking air inside chest?
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What is the treatment for leaking air inside chest?
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A 40-year old asked:
Can a leaking heart valve be repaired and/or replaced without opening the chest?
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I have constipation, a wheezy chest, a small external hemorrhoid and a leaking bladder. Could they be connected?
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A 19-year old male asked:
I had a collapsed lung a week ago. I have a chest tube that is leaking a reddish liquid. What is it and is it normal?
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A 40-year old female asked:
I feel like I have an air bubble in my chest. It hurts to swallow?
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A 34-year old female asked:
I'm trying to come off o2 but when I do my chest feels tight and feels like air isn't going thru why is this I take treatments?
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A 24-year old female asked:
DandC tomorrow morning.obgyn told me to do an exercise by laying on my chest on all 4'sand letting air get into vagina .why is this!? Weird.
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A 48-year old female asked:
For more then 20 years i have had a dull pain in my left chest. heart tests and lungscans fine. chloresterol level ok cold air hurts. what is it?
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A 24-year old male asked:
Diagnosed upper respritory infection since december. Hasnt gotten better. Still coughing up mucus and don't feel like I'm getting any air in my chest?
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A 33-year old asked:
What causes being in air conditioning to make my chest hurt?
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A 22-year old male asked:
I feel anxious. Or like i forget to breath. But i dont. Jus feels like no air in my chest and alot of effort to breath?
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A 44-year old asked:
Why can't my doctors know where the air bubbles come from in my chest cavity?
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A 44-year old asked:
Horrible air hunger. my chest feels like someone is sitting on it. from trying so hard to take a deep breath. can't sleep please help?
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A member asked:
It feels like there is an air bubble caught in my chest. Tried charcoal and baking soda but nothing helps. To the point of vomiting. Help please?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Past hour: everytime I laugh, I feel a pain in my left chest.doesnt happen unless I laugh (letting all air out fast). Otherwise breath isnormal. Bad?
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A 18-year old male asked:
I get these weird "feelings" sometimes where it feels like there's a lot of air going into my abdomen/chest area and takes my breath away What is it?
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A 19-year old female asked:
I have been having this nagging cough for about 4 weeks now and it isn't getting better. It wakes me up and leaves me gasping for air. Chest pain too?
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A 18-year old female asked:
Reasons for feeling like i can't get enough air when my oxygen saturation is good and my chest isn't tight?
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A member asked:
I have been have pain in the right upper side of my chest and directly to my back. It feels like an air bubble, & numbness in my right arm.?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Hello docs!Im experiencing sharp needle pains on my right chest evrytym i laugh or exhale feels like theres air stuck inside my chest what cud it be?
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A 31-year old female asked:
my chest back and neck hurts when i cough i am also left gasping for air is that normal or should i go back to my dr?
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A 16-year old female asked:
Some nights when i try to sleep i feel like my chest is heavy/somethings there and it's hard to get air through my nose. I dont have any allergies. ??
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A 24-year old female asked:
Periodic numbness in left arm that comes with short chest pains and me gasping for air. All conditions come and go. What's going on?
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A 30-year old male asked:
I had VATs talc pleurodesis for pneumothorax 7 years ago.Now,chronic breathing discomfort/feeling of movement in chest (fluid/air).What could it be?
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A 36-year old female asked:
Where does air space disease in the right lateral of the chest consist of?
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A 19-year old female asked:
Feeling like air is being knocked out of me? Fluttery feeling in chest? Coughing seems to help it to stop. 19y/o female. Non smoker. No drug use.
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A 21-year old female asked:
I keep feeling air bubbles in ribs and chest breaking up constantly feels uncomfortable and sometimes I have trouble breathing?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I have chest pains in the center of my chest and back, front feels like I swallowed a whole ice cube or a big air bubble is stuck. No fever.?
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A 33-year old female asked:
Is it normal for my 6 month old baby to stomach breathe while sleeping at night? He pulls air from his stomach and onto his chest, it looks like wave
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