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I am having extreme pain in my left breast. i had a lung biopsy 1 1/2 months ago on left side. where chest tube was, it's not healed?

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Dr. Ariel Lopez-chavez answered

See doctor ASAP: Having extreme pain after a biopsy that was done 1 1/2 months ago is absolutely not normal. Even if a chest tube was there, the pain should have been getting better by now. Please call your doctor and have them examine you to figure out what is going on.

Dr Newman agreed

Answered 9/24/2016

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Dr. Creighton Wright answered

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See your surgeon: You may have some pleurisy and or referred pain from the tube site you need to know your biopsy results.

Dr Lopez-chavez agreed

Answered 2/17/2013

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A member asked:

I am having extreme pain in my left breast. i had a lung biopsy 1 1/2 months ago on left side. where chest tube was, it's not healed?

3 doctors weighed in across 2 answers

Dr. Ariel Lopez-chavez answered

Dr Newman agreed

Dr. Creighton Wright answered

Dr Lopez-chavez agreed

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