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Get and have done Pluerodesis. It can be lifesaving. Too much throcentesisis is dangererous, drainining and in most cases the fluid comes back and you keep having it done. I had 20 of them before a GOOD surgeon said, "you need surgury". By then my lung was collapsed, fluid loculated and I had a thorocotomy---a very serious surgery. A GOOD surgeon will not just shoot talc in there--that is "old school". Pulmonologists do that, but a surgeon will not. If the lung is not collapsed and he has to fix it, he will use a three-pronged scope to look at your lung and he will carefully seal the lung with one of three medicines--bleomycin, talc or WHOOPS! i forgot...another antibiotic I think.
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