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- December 24, 2013 at 8:19 pm
Hello,
I have been lurking on this site since my initial diagnosis about 18 months ago. I had been doing much better mentally and emotionally but now after some non specific dull aching on my right side, I have to go for abdominal CT and I feel like I'm back to the beginning.
I had an ultrasound done that showed 4 small areas on my liver that could be hemangioma or tumors. The largest one was 12mm across. The rest of the ultrasound was normal, no swollen nodes in my abdomen. My blood work is normal.
My inital melanoma was on my right thigh. 0.95mm, non ulcerated, miotic rate 2. My SN biopsy was negative as well as a FNA.
Had anyone ever gone through this? I am trying to be positive but am very scared!
TIA
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- December 24, 2013 at 11:32 pm
I haven't gone through this, but liver hemangiomas and cysts are VERY common. Another early stager I know went through something similar not long ago, and they found 7 or 8 hemangiomas in his liver. Again, they had to rule them out as being metastasis, but they were nothing. Please don't jump to conclusions on this one as the benign conditions are common!
Best wishes,
Janner
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- December 24, 2013 at 11:32 pm
I haven't gone through this, but liver hemangiomas and cysts are VERY common. Another early stager I know went through something similar not long ago, and they found 7 or 8 hemangiomas in his liver. Again, they had to rule them out as being metastasis, but they were nothing. Please don't jump to conclusions on this one as the benign conditions are common!
Best wishes,
Janner
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- December 24, 2013 at 11:32 pm
I haven't gone through this, but liver hemangiomas and cysts are VERY common. Another early stager I know went through something similar not long ago, and they found 7 or 8 hemangiomas in his liver. Again, they had to rule them out as being metastasis, but they were nothing. Please don't jump to conclusions on this one as the benign conditions are common!
Best wishes,
Janner
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- December 25, 2013 at 10:55 pm
Tia — With mostly good prognostic factors like a thin lesion and extremity location, the odds are definitely in your favor that this is a false alarm. I'm stage 1B also and I've had a few scares, such as when the doc called to tell me "nodules" were seen on my chest x-ray. I had a CT and it turned out to be nothing. But I was quite scared, just as you are now. Let's face it, melanoma is scary. I'm betting your CT will be clean.
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- December 29, 2013 at 11:03 am
Hi Tia, I haven't looked here for a long time and rarely post. Just to let you know, I have had exactly the same thing as you…mine was the opposite side but otherwise very similar story. 0.83 left foot, neg slnb. Dull aching pain left lower abdomen. Hemangioma on liver but nil else abn. (My surgeon was reluctant to investigate but I was very anxious like you and got a pet scan too which was probably very very unnecessary and I'm not suggesting it but I was in a panicand the nodes were on the borderline…to be expected post infection/surgery). I think this dull ache is due to the lymph system being disrupted and it is a little worse around menses with fluid retention I think. May be tmi but I hope it helps in some way to relieve the scan anxiety to know this can be absolutely nothing. It would be interesting to hear if this is common post sentinel node surgery. Best wishes.
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- December 29, 2013 at 11:03 am
Hi Tia, I haven't looked here for a long time and rarely post. Just to let you know, I have had exactly the same thing as you…mine was the opposite side but otherwise very similar story. 0.83 left foot, neg slnb. Dull aching pain left lower abdomen. Hemangioma on liver but nil else abn. (My surgeon was reluctant to investigate but I was very anxious like you and got a pet scan too which was probably very very unnecessary and I'm not suggesting it but I was in a panicand the nodes were on the borderline…to be expected post infection/surgery). I think this dull ache is due to the lymph system being disrupted and it is a little worse around menses with fluid retention I think. May be tmi but I hope it helps in some way to relieve the scan anxiety to know this can be absolutely nothing. It would be interesting to hear if this is common post sentinel node surgery. Best wishes.
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- December 29, 2013 at 11:03 am
Hi Tia, I haven't looked here for a long time and rarely post. Just to let you know, I have had exactly the same thing as you…mine was the opposite side but otherwise very similar story. 0.83 left foot, neg slnb. Dull aching pain left lower abdomen. Hemangioma on liver but nil else abn. (My surgeon was reluctant to investigate but I was very anxious like you and got a pet scan too which was probably very very unnecessary and I'm not suggesting it but I was in a panicand the nodes were on the borderline…to be expected post infection/surgery). I think this dull ache is due to the lymph system being disrupted and it is a little worse around menses with fluid retention I think. May be tmi but I hope it helps in some way to relieve the scan anxiety to know this can be absolutely nothing. It would be interesting to hear if this is common post sentinel node surgery. Best wishes.
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- December 29, 2013 at 11:03 am
Hi Tia, I haven't looked here for a long time and rarely post. Just to let you know, I have had exactly the same thing as you…mine was the opposite side but otherwise very similar story. 0.83 left foot, neg slnb. Dull aching pain left lower abdomen. Hemangioma on liver but nil else abn. (My surgeon was reluctant to investigate but I was very anxious like you and got a pet scan too which was probably very very unnecessary and I'm not suggesting it but I was in a panicand the nodes were on the borderline…to be expected post infection/surgery). I think this dull ache is due to the lymph system being disrupted and it is a little worse around menses with fluid retention I think. May be tmi but I hope it helps in some way to relieve the scan anxiety to know this can be absolutely nothing. It would be interesting to hear if this is common post sentinel node surgery. Best wishes.
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- December 29, 2013 at 11:03 am
Hi Tia, I haven't looked here for a long time and rarely post. Just to let you know, I have had exactly the same thing as you…mine was the opposite side but otherwise very similar story. 0.83 left foot, neg slnb. Dull aching pain left lower abdomen. Hemangioma on liver but nil else abn. (My surgeon was reluctant to investigate but I was very anxious like you and got a pet scan too which was probably very very unnecessary and I'm not suggesting it but I was in a panicand the nodes were on the borderline…to be expected post infection/surgery). I think this dull ache is due to the lymph system being disrupted and it is a little worse around menses with fluid retention I think. May be tmi but I hope it helps in some way to relieve the scan anxiety to know this can be absolutely nothing. It would be interesting to hear if this is common post sentinel node surgery. Best wishes.
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- December 29, 2013 at 11:03 am
Hi Tia, I haven't looked here for a long time and rarely post. Just to let you know, I have had exactly the same thing as you…mine was the opposite side but otherwise very similar story. 0.83 left foot, neg slnb. Dull aching pain left lower abdomen. Hemangioma on liver but nil else abn. (My surgeon was reluctant to investigate but I was very anxious like you and got a pet scan too which was probably very very unnecessary and I'm not suggesting it but I was in a panicand the nodes were on the borderline…to be expected post infection/surgery). I think this dull ache is due to the lymph system being disrupted and it is a little worse around menses with fluid retention I think. May be tmi but I hope it helps in some way to relieve the scan anxiety to know this can be absolutely nothing. It would be interesting to hear if this is common post sentinel node surgery. Best wishes.
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- December 25, 2013 at 10:55 pm
Tia — With mostly good prognostic factors like a thin lesion and extremity location, the odds are definitely in your favor that this is a false alarm. I'm stage 1B also and I've had a few scares, such as when the doc called to tell me "nodules" were seen on my chest x-ray. I had a CT and it turned out to be nothing. But I was quite scared, just as you are now. Let's face it, melanoma is scary. I'm betting your CT will be clean.
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- December 25, 2013 at 10:55 pm
Tia — With mostly good prognostic factors like a thin lesion and extremity location, the odds are definitely in your favor that this is a false alarm. I'm stage 1B also and I've had a few scares, such as when the doc called to tell me "nodules" were seen on my chest x-ray. I had a CT and it turned out to be nothing. But I was quite scared, just as you are now. Let's face it, melanoma is scary. I'm betting your CT will be clean.
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