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  • todd121
    todd121 Member Posts: 1,448 Member
    #22
    Stevewmass said:

    Well, the hour and a half I

    Well, the hour and a half I spent today in the Urologist office I will never get back. After waiting for over an hour, I finally go to talk to him, a lot of good that did me, it's on to more tests. They can't tell what is going on with the x-ray but there is something there, not sure if it is the rib, the lung  of dust on the x-ray machine. I was able to get that info off the report, so my visit today was maybe to help him pay his mortgage payment. They will be calling me next week for another CT scan.

    Steve

    CT Scan

    Steve,

    If I understand what you've been saying so far, this is the first CT scan of your chest. Is that correct?

    Will they do this scan with or without contrast?  I can't remember if you've had a radical or partical nephrectomy?  What is your creatinine level from your latest blood tests? My oncologist won't allow me to have the contrast if my creatinine is above 1.5 (which it has been). It would be good to have it with contrast if you can tolerate it.

    Please keep us up-to-date.

    Todd

  • Stevewmass
    Stevewmass Member Posts: 37
    #23
    todd121 said:

    CT Scan

    Steve,

    If I understand what you've been saying so far, this is the first CT scan of your chest. Is that correct?

    Will they do this scan with or without contrast?  I can't remember if you've had a radical or partical nephrectomy?  What is your creatinine level from your latest blood tests? My oncologist won't allow me to have the contrast if my creatinine is above 1.5 (which it has been). It would be good to have it with contrast if you can tolerate it.

    Please keep us up-to-date.

    Todd

    This was the first chest

    This was the first chest X-ray since my partial nephrectomy in June 2012. I have had 2 CT scans both with and without contrast, the contrast is not a problem for me I have 1 and 2/3 kidneys. Both scans come back good. Next Friday  I am scheduled for a CT scan  on my chest with-out contrast. The doctor is not sure what is showing on the x ray, I am hoping it is dust in the machine. 

  • Stevewmass
    Stevewmass Member Posts: 37
    #24
    Stevewmass said:

    This was the first chest

    This was the first chest X-ray since my partial nephrectomy in June 2012. I have had 2 CT scans both with and without contrast, the contrast is not a problem for me I have 1 and 2/3 kidneys. Both scans come back good. Next Friday  I am scheduled for a CT scan  on my chest with-out contrast. The doctor is not sure what is showing on the x ray, I am hoping it is dust in the machine. 

    Well It wasn't Dust on the x-ray machine

    As usual my mind went to a lot of dark places. I got the report back on the chest CT scan, It seems that I have mostly calcified nodules, most likely related to old granulomatous disease ( I am assuming that the name is worst then the disease). There are some tiny noncalcified nodules, that need to be watched, with another CT scan in 6 months. I am getting to be on a first name basis with the CT maching it's starting to feel like a friend.    

  • Galrim
    Galrim Member Posts: 315 Member
    #25
    Stevewmass said:

    Well It wasn't Dust on the x-ray machine

    As usual my mind went to a lot of dark places. I got the report back on the chest CT scan, It seems that I have mostly calcified nodules, most likely related to old granulomatous disease ( I am assuming that the name is worst then the disease). There are some tiny noncalcified nodules, that need to be watched, with another CT scan in 6 months. I am getting to be on a first name basis with the CT maching it's starting to feel like a friend.    

    Just to cheer you up.

    I had 3 lung nodules, 5-10 mm, detected when my RCC tumor also was found. I was scared shitless to begin with and was on "observation" like yourself. Thats 2 1/2 year ago and they havent changed and are now deemed harmless.

    Originally, and this may comfort you, both my urologist and oncologist said that the combination of low stage and grade and lower than 10mm mets was rare. They were from the beginning convinced it wasnt mets due to the above, and the calcification and slight tissue retraction around the nodules. And they were right...

    /G

  • Stevewmass
    Stevewmass Member Posts: 37
    #26
    Galrim said:

    Just to cheer you up.

    I had 3 lung nodules, 5-10 mm, detected when my RCC tumor also was found. I was scared shitless to begin with and was on "observation" like yourself. Thats 2 1/2 year ago and they havent changed and are now deemed harmless.

    Originally, and this may comfort you, both my urologist and oncologist said that the combination of low stage and grade and lower than 10mm mets was rare. They were from the beginning convinced it wasnt mets due to the above, and the calcification and slight tissue retraction around the nodules. And they were right...

    /G

    Thanks

    thanks that is a help. I hate when my mind goes places it shouldn't. It's better now and I am ok with the report no more gloom and doom

    Steve

  • todd121
    todd121 Member Posts: 1,448 Member
    #27
    Stevewmass said:

    Well It wasn't Dust on the x-ray machine

    As usual my mind went to a lot of dark places. I got the report back on the chest CT scan, It seems that I have mostly calcified nodules, most likely related to old granulomatous disease ( I am assuming that the name is worst then the disease). There are some tiny noncalcified nodules, that need to be watched, with another CT scan in 6 months. I am getting to be on a first name basis with the CT maching it's starting to feel like a friend.    

    Small Lung Nodules

    I also have just a few very small "things" in my lungs which they are watching. Some were unchanged on my last CT scan (the previous CT scan included only the lower lungs, so they had nothing to compare on the ones  in my upper lungs). So far my doc is unconcerned. Evidently these kinds of things are seen all the time that are non-cancerous. It's one of the reasons they don't do routine, full-body CT scans on people: they tend to see anomalies that are often nothing to be concerned about.

    Hope you don't worry too much about this.

    Todd

  • Stevewmass
    Stevewmass Member Posts: 37
    #28
    todd121 said:

    Small Lung Nodules

    I also have just a few very small "things" in my lungs which they are watching. Some were unchanged on my last CT scan (the previous CT scan included only the lower lungs, so they had nothing to compare on the ones  in my upper lungs). So far my doc is unconcerned. Evidently these kinds of things are seen all the time that are non-cancerous. It's one of the reasons they don't do routine, full-body CT scans on people: they tend to see anomalies that are often nothing to be concerned about.

    Hope you don't worry too much about this.

    Todd

    I am worried about these

    I'm not concerned about them Thanks,

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