Hi All,

 

          I was just diagnosed with emphysema on the 10th of December.  I had been getting pain in my lungs as well as heart pain for some time.  About a month before diagnosis I had pneumonia, they tried one antibiotic, didn't work, then another that did.  Around the 6th of December my lungs felt really heavy, I was coughing up white yellow mucus, and I felt like I wasn't getting enough air.  Everytime I saw my normal physican I told him about my chest pain and he said it was just anxiety.  He wouldn't do anything about it.  So I saw a different doctor in the same practice that had prescribed the second round of antibiotics for my pneumonia (on the ninth of December.).  He had mentioned before getting a chest xray if the pneumonia continued.  When I mentioned that to my primary doc he told me it was a waste as scar tissue from pneumonia can last up to six months and they wouldn't see anything.  Anyway, this second doctor ordered an xray right away, and told me to bring it to him the next day.  I did, and he diagnosed me with the emphysema.  This seems to have come on really quick asides from the lung pain.  I've never had reacurring bronchitis, and I had no difficulty breathing at all till the sixth.  I don't smoke, haven't for over a year, and then I smoked four cigarettes a day.  I smoked since I was eighteen, with breaks occasionally lasting from a few months to two years as I attempted to quit.  I am twenty eight now, a single mom with two children, ages six and ten.  I have had other outstanding health issues (Severe dental decay, chronic infection, and subsequent chronic fatigue syndrome.)  I haven't told my family what is going on- the diagnosing doctor told me I have a virus too, so that's what I told them.  My best friend knows something is going on with my lungs, thats it.  I don't want them to know because I don't want them to worry.  After all they have been through helping me deal with my health issues this is the last thing they need.  I don't want my kids worrying that Mommy will die, they already worry about my health enough.  So what I need to know is, what can I do to cure this?  My mom was diagnosed with emphysema a few years back- she's fifty six and has been smoking since she was thirteen.  Her doc told her, and she said I will cure it, and she did.  Six months of scanning her body with her mind, fixing her lungs with her imagination.  When she went back they tested her it was gone.  Her lung tissue was completely back to normal.  The doctors were shocked.  They couldn't believe it, but the tests did not lie.  She still smokes to this day, but is trying to quit as it has become too expensive for her.  I need any info out there that may help me, no matter how wild it may seem.  My chest pain and breathlessness has increases ten fold since the diagnosis, and I am willing to try just about anything.  I firmly believe this can be cured completely.  I am going to do the visulization three times a day for fifteen minutes each time, and the diagnosing doctor told me to eat more protein, oranges, and brocolli, so I will.  I really need to know what herbs and suppliments will help, as well as any good websites on emphysema, the lung and it's make up/ function (not the basics, I am well versed in medicine and need sites that will give me information in detail i.e. chemistry of lungs, tissue makeup of lungs, etc.)  and anything else anyone out there has used or heard of that may be benificial.  Thank you so much, and thank you for this site.  Now I don't feel so alone.