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Jay26 said on 21 February 2012

I am 31 and yesterday went to a&e after reacting to penicillin taken for a chest infection. When the doctor looked at my chest x-ray (taken last week) he pointed out that my spine is curved. He said that it curves to the left and is causing my left lung to be alot smaller than the right - which would explain why I've been suffering from breathlessness since I was 18. I'd had a chest x-ray two years ago and my spine was not noticed then. At present I have not been officially diagnosed, as I couldn't take in this news at midnight! I've also had back pain since I was 18 and occasionally get sciatica, and have had physio on my back in the past, but nothing has ever been picked up before. I find this worrying as I don't know what happens next or whether anything will need to be done.

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