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Lung inflammation is a terrible thing and not to be dismissed. My Dad had scarring of his lung tissue cause unknown it's called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. S

Lung inflammation is a terrible thing and not to be dismissed. My Dad had scarring of his lung tissue cause unknown it's called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Some thing or inflammation damaged his lungs I don't think and I hope it wasn't genetic but there familial part to it. I could tell by the sound of his breathing ten years before he was officially diagnosed that something was wrong I thought his heart due to family history but hindsight is 20/20. I'm the same age now as when he first started sounding bad when he was breathing. His father my grandfather died of emphysema not sure if related since my grandfather was a smoker. My Dad's doctor said cancer would be easier to treat. Dad made it another ten years past a diagnosis of three years he was given to live but he lived in dread all that time. What really got him in the end was anxiety not so much the disease.

01100011 3y ago
Yeah, I knew someone with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Came out of nowhere and in a couple short years they needed a lung transplant. No explanation, no cure, in an otherwise healthy person.
eru 3y ago
As an aside: when modern medicine puts 'idiopathic' in front of any condition it means that the doctors don't know what's going on (yet). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_disease
presidentender 3y ago
My mom died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis resulting from "interstitial lung disease," which is a nasty progressive feedback loop of inflammation, scarring, and reduced lung volume. She'd cough, which would make small tears, which would scar, which would mean there was less working lung around later. Her lifestyle was a contributing factor. She didn't smoke but her house was full of pet dander and she used a wood stove. I do have the exercise-induced reactive airway thing to which she attributed her frailty early on, so maybe I'll go the same way.

01100011 3y ago

Yeah, I knew someone with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Came out of nowhere and in a couple short years they needed a lung transplant. No explanation, no cure, in an otherwise healthy person.

eru 3y ago

As an aside: when modern medicine puts 'idiopathic' in front of any condition it means that the doctors don't know what's going on (yet). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiopathic_disease

presidentender 3y ago

My mom died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis resulting from "interstitial lung disease," which is a nasty progressive feedback loop of inflammation, scarring, and reduced lung volume. She'd cough, which would make small tears, which would scar, which would mean there was less working lung around later. Her lifestyle was a contributing factor. She didn't smoke but her house was full of pet dander and she used a wood stove. I do have the exercise-induced reactive airway thing to which she attributed her frailty early on, so maybe I'll go the same way.