Pulmonary Fibrosis Support Group

Hi BrokenWings,
I've had pain in my lungs. Sometimes shooting pain or just a sudden sharp pain like a knife.
I asked my pulmo and he said that is to be expected.

check out the list of signs and symptoms on this page ^^

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hope this helps

My lungs hurt and I just figured it was the PF. I also hurt between my shoulders. I have pressure there all the time. I would feel better if the pressure would let up. Does anyone else have this pressure feeling?

Sometimes if I try to do too much for too long my neck and shoulders ache. I think when I'm gasping for air I tend to use my shoulders to breathe.
Also there is always the feeling of fullness and pressure in my chest sometimes with pain. I think that is because my lungs are becoming more and more restricted and expanding less and less. I always feel that if I could cough enough it would clear, but I know it wont.
Is what your experiencing anything like that?

BrokenWings,

I have the pain and discomfort also. I had to laugh at your comment about your "new" doctor...it sounds like we have the same one! I wonder if we do!! I have two different types...one is sharp or shooting in one lung that takes my breath away for a few seconds when it hits and the other is lower right side of right lung...my doc thought it could be the diaphram getting too stressed by having to breathe so hard..it is hard to know what causes it, but it is real and your are not nuts...though my doc makes me feel that way too sometimes.

Certainly there is lung pain when IPF distresses your breathing. I also have the neck and upper back pain between the shoulders which I believe can be attributed to the use of your shoulder and back muscles to assist in breathing, but that would just be a guess.

I have dull pain in the general area of the bottom of my lungs when I lie in certain positions, and I struggle to get up. Like yours, my pulmonologist also said there is no pain associated with PT. I tend to think the doctors don't know. I feel for you and hope you find relief somehow from the pain. Telliopi

I also have the pains mostly mine is on the left side on my back. My Dr. said its from the illness that the lungs are harding and that they can't expand. so i can't sleep on my back or stomach. Because the pain starts boy does it hurt when i have to take a CT scan or Echo...boy i dread those days. also can't sleep on my left side because the year before this illness happen i was in a car accident that crushed my left hip and pelvis and three lower bones in my back and head injury. went through a 16 hour surgrey to remove the bones in the hip and pelvis and put in hardware. i was in the hospital for three months. so i can only sleep on my right side which doing so for so long can be pain in it self.

I also have pain with My pulom,in the center of My chest and lower back.My Doctor says this is part of the Fibrosis.The pain can be shooting and can be sharp pain.It's hard to sleep at night with this pain.

Every once in a while I seem to have pain in my right lung but, my doctor says it must be coming from a strained muscle. I know it's not. I feel it. It's inside I've had pluracy and the feeling is similar. I can't seem to catch my breath and it hurts. If I breathe gently it doesn't hurt too badly. If I take a deep breath it hurts something terrible. Always in the right lung. Tom