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When i cough there is pain in the left side of my chest like a rib is poking into my lung or flesh. i have been diagnosed with a collapsed lung before?

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Recurrent: pneumothorax is definite possibility. Other possibilities are pleurisy, pulmonary embolism, zoster, etc. Get to your doctor, so he can get a chest x-ray.

Answered 3/21/2015

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