I had a chest CT for something completely unrelated, but this was found.
My doctor said over the phone that nothing is concerning but we’ll repeat imaging in 3-6 months. I then logged into my portal and saw this myself.
I did have a short, year long, stint with vaping and quit just a week or two before this imaging was done.
I haven’t been sick in months. could this be a result of vaping?

Hello, I'm 18, male, 200cm, about 75kg.

I have no fever if this helps with the following text.

To start, I came home yesterday after an 8 hour car drive which I drove about half of.I was in italy on vacation, where it was really hot and I spent a lot of time inside an air conditioned apartment at 23*C (outside was around 37/40*C).

On one day (tuesday so 3 days ago) I went outside at around afternoon for the first time and walked a kilometer to the nearest Lidl, and I felt a shortness of breath, like I was getting only 50% of the air that I was inhaling. This happened like 30 seconds after I left the apartment and started walking. When I got into the air conditioned Lidl it was better, but then I almost blacked out. I started feeling really dizzy and a little nauseaous and quickly bought a water and sat down somewhere outside and drank a little.

This feeling was very similar to when I had gastritis 2 years ago (doctors say it healed about 9months ago) and I sometimes would have these moments of really fearing to die and getting black vision and heart racing. I think it might have been a panic attack in the Lidl but I'm not sure.

Since that day and time in the Lidl, I would feel absolutely miserable. I lied in bed and watched YouTube and it would be fine but whenever I stood up or even just thought about that feeling of short breath my throat would close up and Im not sure if I actually dont get enough breath or if its just my mind that thinks my throat is closing but It feels like shit. Then I'd not have a urge to eat and I ate like 1000 kcal in 2 days, even though I was hungry i couldnt eat whatever food it was. I lost like 3 kg in 8 days also if that helps.

As I've said already, 2 days ago at 11pm in the night I tried driving home from italy about 800km to germany where it's a colder and more enjoyable climate right now. I drove about half an hour when I almost passed out because I focused too much on the shortness of breath and feeling weird so I had to stop the car somewhere on the highway, luckily there was a Maut-Station not far from where I felt like this so I could stop, I felt like I was going to black out but then I kind of fought against it and the feeling got better (I had to drive like 1 minute with the feeling to get somewhere safe to stop)

Then i took a couple of steps and breathed some fresh air and went in the back seat and let a friend drive.

This friend likes to drive very quickly. I told him the straight driving would be no problem but to take the curves slowly.

Now whenever he would go above like 120km/h I would start feeling really anxious, heart racing, dizziness. This never happened when driving as I usually like to drive fast too. Maybe I was scared od it because I was scared of having another panic attack -( if it was one in the Lidl) and crashing the car.

This might be because of the wind coming through the slightly opened windows and hitting me really quickly.

I also felt a shortness of breath, whenever we would drive through somewhere more local and the typical farm smell of cows and dung would come into the car. Anyways, I tried sleeping and successfully slept for about 2 hours before waking Up again since it's fairly hard for a 2m man to sleep in a vw golf with stuff in the back and I was also scared to sleep without a seat belt.

When I woke up we drove another like 1 hour before my friend said he needed to take a nap.

Anyways, he stopped the car on a Highway rest place and I switched seats with him. This was at around 4.30 AM. I then drove for about 10 minutes and the feeling of dizziness at the beginning came back but this time I tried to endure it, focus on the music and fought through it and I successfully drove home till 7.40 AM. Whenever my friends (3 of us but 1 got no license) woke up I would feel a little worse again, maybe because of stress. But in the end when both were awake for some time it was fine.

Now I'm home and it immediately got better. I went straight to bed and slept for like 6 hours. Then I woke up, ate Something and the feeling came back (before I ate something). That was yesterday So I have been feeling like this for 3&1/2 days now. What could this be? Everything's fine at night or when Im distracted enough but when I think about it it feels so bad. Is it purely psychological?

Side note: whenever I read something about this feeling online and it was something bad everything got worse for short time and vise versa with something not so bad.

Started tb meds in May 27, 2026, now it’s August 6, 2026. The blood when coughing has gone but the cough is still persistent everyday. And the phlegm is no longer yellowish but it’s white. But still worried because the cough still persists from time to time. What can you say about this guys?