Update on Possible Swollen Lymph Nodes
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Update on Possible Swollen Lymph Nodes

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    • August 17, 2011 at 7:05 pm
    Eileen L
    Participant

    The other day I posted that after a stable scan, I thought I felt something in my right groin that seemed to me to be a swollen lymph node. Went to oncologist yesterday, and he was very certain that what I was feeling was not a swollen node and after talking to him about it, and feeling my groin about a million times more, I do believe he is right. I 

    The other day I posted that after a stable scan, I thought I felt something in my right groin that seemed to me to be a swollen lymph node. Went to oncologist yesterday, and he was very certain that what I was feeling was not a swollen node and after talking to him about it, and feeling my groin about a million times more, I do believe he is right. I 

    What we did find was something on my neck, which felt to him like a calcified carotid artery! So now I am off to my primary care doc next week to see what she thinks, and possibly get a ultrasound of my carotids. Given that there is a history of arterial disease on both sides of the family and I have a tendency for high cholesterol levels, it certainly may be that I have something happening there!

    If it ain't one thing its another!!!!

     

    Eileen L

    Stage IV

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      • August 17, 2011 at 8:00 pm
      lhaley
      Participant

      Ugh….  Hopefully whatever it is can be fixed quickly and painlessly!  As we age it sure does take a medical degree to understand it all!  Please keep us up to date!  You do know I'm not saying your old, if I remember right we are the same age.

      Linda

      • August 17, 2011 at 8:00 pm
      lhaley
      Participant

      Ugh….  Hopefully whatever it is can be fixed quickly and painlessly!  As we age it sure does take a medical degree to understand it all!  Please keep us up to date!  You do know I'm not saying your old, if I remember right we are the same age.

      Linda

      • August 17, 2011 at 8:35 pm
      King
      Participant

      Eileen,

       

      Keep us posted.  A calcified carotid artery sounds better to me than a new area of mets.  I think you probably agree.  I'm very happy to read that you are still stable.

      Stay Strong
      King

      Stage IV 7/05 Liver mets

      • August 17, 2011 at 8:35 pm
      King
      Participant

      Eileen,

       

      Keep us posted.  A calcified carotid artery sounds better to me than a new area of mets.  I think you probably agree.  I'm very happy to read that you are still stable.

      Stay Strong
      King

      Stage IV 7/05 Liver mets

      • August 17, 2011 at 11:05 pm
      JerryfromFauq
      Participant

      Still say it's amazing how we go from never thinking cancer to wondering if everything is cancer and then to hoping that what is found is what we used to say, "No, don't let it be — _____________  "   Keep on going.

      • August 17, 2011 at 11:05 pm
      JerryfromFauq
      Participant

      Still say it's amazing how we go from never thinking cancer to wondering if everything is cancer and then to hoping that what is found is what we used to say, "No, don't let it be — _____________  "   Keep on going.

      • August 19, 2011 at 5:27 am
      Eileen L
      Participant
      Thx for all your good wishes! Will let you know what happens at my appointment next week.
      Eileen
      • August 19, 2011 at 5:27 am
      Eileen L
      Participant
      Thx for all your good wishes! Will let you know what happens at my appointment next week.
      Eileen
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