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CT Anxiety ****UPDATE****

Skiffin16
Skiffin16 CSN Member Posts: 8,305 Member
edited February 2011 in Head and Neck Cancer #1
The anxiety begins....

I had my routine CT this morning...especially stressful on this one as I just had knee surgery. In doing that, they of course knocked me out, and shoved the breathing tube down my throat. This was a week or so ago.

Well every since, my throat on that side has been soar and swollen. Glands are swollwn and hearing kind of muffled. I also have what looks like a lesion or kind of scabby looking patch down deep behind my tongue where I originally had this rollercoaster begin two years ago.

For whatever reason, occasionally I'll get similar symptoms, swollen glands, sore, etc...(no scabby looking patch though). I always get it scoped and so far nothing has shown up on the CT's or PET. But it's still very hard not to get apprehensive.

Keep Shelley and I in your thoughts and prayers this next week or so please...

Best,
John
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  • Mikki332
    Mikki332 CSN Member Posts: 49
    #2
    You got it!
    Commencing praying!
    Mikki
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  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 CSN Member Posts: 3,228 Member
    #3
    Mikki332 said:

    You got it!
    Commencing praying!
    Mikki

    Absolutely
    Extra prayers headed out.
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  • luv4lacrosse
    luv4lacrosse CSN Member Posts: 1,410 Member
    #4
    PRAYERS AND POSITIVE THOUGHTS ON THE WAY
    here's to an uneventfull scan.

    Best!!

    Mike
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  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 CSN Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #5
    There's SOAR and then there is SORE....
    Guess your spell check can't help you if you use the right word, but spell the wrong one...

    Just my two scents...ummm, I mean since, oh crap...cents.

    JG
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  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 CSN Member Posts: 3,228 Member
    #6
    Skiffin16 said:

    There's SOAR and then there is SORE....
    Guess your spell check can't help you if you use the right word, but spell the wrong one...

    Just my two scents...ummm, I mean since, oh crap...cents.

    JG

    Lmao. I have to say, I
    Lmao. I have to say, I prefer 'soar'. :) I see I dis that the other day with heeling. Vs healing. Not sure if it was me or my iPhone. Tho I so love a cute heel, so i dunno..
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  • Hal61
    Hal61 CSN Member Posts: 655
    #7
    Your way
    Hi John, positive thoughts and prayers coming your way.


    best, Hal
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  • Kimba1505
    Kimba1505 CSN Member Posts: 557
    #8
    Hal61 said:

    Your way
    Hi John, positive thoughts and prayers coming your way.


    best, Hal

    Energy your way.
    John,
    Sending strong energy your way and feeling very confident that you are experiencing airway trauma from the tube going down your throat during knee surgery.
    How's the knee?
    Kim
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  • Kimba1505
    Kimba1505 CSN Member Posts: 557
    #9
    Hal61 said:

    Your way
    Hi John, positive thoughts and prayers coming your way.


    best, Hal

    Energy your way.
    John,
    Sending strong energy your way and feeling very confident that you are experiencing airway trauma from the tube going down your throat during knee surgery.
    How's the knee?
    Kim
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  • Kimba1505
    Kimba1505 CSN Member Posts: 557
    #10
    Kimba1505 said:

    Energy your way.
    John,
    Sending strong energy your way and feeling very confident that you are experiencing airway trauma from the tube going down your throat during knee surgery.
    How's the knee?
    Kim

    OOOPS! Double post...
    ...at least it wasn't a triple.
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  • rozaroo
    rozaroo CSN Member Posts: 665
    #11
    Kimba1505 said:

    OOOPS! Double post...
    ...at least it wasn't a triple.

    Thinking of you both!
    My thought's & prayer's are with you both!
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  • Carolinagal
    Carolinagal CSN Member Posts: 91
    #12
    Hoping that you get good
    Hoping that you get good results soon. Praying for you both.
    Cindi
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  • Pumakitty
    Pumakitty CSN Member Posts: 652
    #13
    Prayers
    I am sending tons of prayers and hugs your way.

    Kathy
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  • Joel4
    Joel4 CSN Member Posts: 263 Member
    #14
    Pumakitty said:

    Prayers
    I am sending tons of prayers and hugs your way.

    Kathy

    Sending Prayers..
    Sending prayers your way. The anxiety is a tough thing to overcome. Whenever I go to my cancer center for an appointment my blood pressure is so much higher than usual. Scans are the same way. Anyway, I'll be praying for yet another clear scan coming you way!
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  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 CSN Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #15
    Kimba1505 said:

    Energy your way.
    John,
    Sending strong energy your way and feeling very confident that you are experiencing airway trauma from the tube going down your throat during knee surgery.
    How's the knee?
    Kim

    Thanks...
    Thank you all....

    Kim, thanks, the knee is still a little sore...LOL, but much better than it was. I tore the meniscus several weeks ago. Took that long to convince MD's it wasn't arthritis....

    JG
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  • Kent Cass
    Kent Cass CSN Member Posts: 1,898 Member
    #16
    Joel4 said:

    Sending Prayers..
    Sending prayers your way. The anxiety is a tough thing to overcome. Whenever I go to my cancer center for an appointment my blood pressure is so much higher than usual. Scans are the same way. Anyway, I'll be praying for yet another clear scan coming you way!

    You Got "EM
    My Prayers, John. Heckuva note that a knee Op could kick the symptom thing in at a body place that should be left well alone with the C history. Hopes and Prayers all is OK.

    Believe

    kcass
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  • MarineE5
    MarineE5 CSN Member Posts: 1,039 Member
    #17
    Prayers
    John,

    Prayers outbound to Sky-Six for both of you.

    Semper Fidelis
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  • mixleader
    mixleader CSN Member Posts: 267 Member
    #18
    Anxiety
    Hi, John. I can't imagine anybody not having anxiety under the conditions you are going through. I'll bet most of us have gone through this at one time or another. I know I am still in crisis mode and I feel the anxiety a lot of the time. My best wishes and prayers coming your way for a clean scan.

    Roger
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  • Pam M
    Pam M CSN Member Posts: 2,196
    #19
    Only Natural
    Although I have to admit, I usually think I'm on the road to being a nut job when I worry about "symptoms" that come up. Looking forward to hearing you joke about the apprehension later this week.
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  • Jimbo55
    Jimbo55 CSN Member Posts: 590
    #20
    John & Shelley, My very best
    John & Shelley, My very best wishes and positive thoughts for a clean result from the CT scan. Hope to hear the good results soon. Cheers,

    Jimbo
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  • ratface
    ratface CSN Member Posts: 1,337 Member
    #21
    Jimbo55 said:

    John & Shelley, My very best
    John & Shelley, My very best wishes and positive thoughts for a clean result from the CT scan. Hope to hear the good results soon. Cheers,

    Jimbo

    positive thoughts your way
    All my best John and wishing a positive outcome your way.
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