I was prompted to quit smoking in April when I was hospitalized with a lung hemorrhage. Of course a lung CT was preformed. Six weeks later my doctor ordered a follow-up lung CT. Imagine my surprise that the first line of the results of the second CT read, "Emphysematous changes are present in the upper lobes
bilaterally." I find it concerning that changes were significant enough to be noticeable in just six weeks.
Is this normal?