I had RLL lung surgery over a year ago, Stage 1a thanks to low dose screening!! I lost 2/3rd of the lobe, sorry if that sounds awful. About four months ago I noticed my oxygen saturation will start to drop below 85 when I might just be sitting watching TV, or standing still. There is no reason since it is so sporatic. I still could do a 6-minute walk test, and the FEV1 was 150, and DLCO 50 last week at the pulmonologists. I've had more flares since the weather has been horrible in the mid-west this year. The pulmonologist said this was happening because I have not given my lungs enough chance to recover from the flares. I'm to use my mini-go if I go below 98, or if I can't articulate a full sentence. I use 02 at night now.
I know I'm lucky to have kept these higher numbers since I quite smoking 8 years ago. When the VATs surgery was done the surgeon had to put in two suture lines. He found really bad adhesions where a bicyclist had sent me to intensive care 8 years ago. The nodule was in scar tissue from that accident.
I'm just wondering if anyone has heard of this. My GP had said something about me having 4 more years left a couple weeks ago, but I hadn't had the recent PFT done at that point.