Scan time again on Thursday

TillieSOK
TillieSOK Member Posts: 252
in Kidney Cancer #1

Hopefully, they will show the lung nodules are still stable.  Have been having fairly significant coughing spells with a funny honking sound that I've never had before...hurts, too.  Hopefully they can tell me why my back and left hip are so sore, along with my right collar bone and shoulder blade. Then will have U/S on thyroid again, since I have large growths on both sides, and they "can't rule out papillary thyroid cancer."  Ain't life fun?  ;)

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  • icemantoo
    icemantoo Member Posts: 3,361 Member
    #2
    Hopefully all is well

    Tillie,

    Here is one for NED.

    My coughing turned out to be reflux/ Just a  thought.

     

     

    Icemantoo

  • Phredswife
    Phredswife Member Posts: 162
    #3
    Wishing you luck Tillie. I

    Wishing you luck Tillie. I hope all is well with your scans. Hugs Melissa xox

  • Ed Brabant
    Ed Brabant Member Posts: 61
    #4
    Scan time

    Allergies have been giving me fits. Some coughing congestion sneezing feeling like crap. Took a Zertec and all the stuff went away. Just a thought.

  • TillieSOK
    TillieSOK Member Posts: 252
    #5
    Ed Brabant said:

    Scan time

    Allergies have been giving me fits. Some coughing congestion sneezing feeling like crap. Took a Zertec and all the stuff went away. Just a thought.

    Well, my creatinine was too

    Well, my creatinine was too high for them to use contrast on today's scans.  I'm concerned about the quality of these scans.  I was told to take a deep breath and hold it, while they scanned, and immediately started coughing.  Same thing when they asked again, only coughed harder.  Then they said scan was over....WTH?  I asked if it was a full chest/abdomen/pelvis?  Yup!  Took all of 4 minutes.  I've NEVER had a scan take that little of time!  Not even a chest X-ray!!  I'm talking 4-5 minutes from the time I walked into the room, before I laid down on the table, until I was walking out of the room!   Anybody else have a scan that quick?  Oh and also, when I asked that they send me a copy of the report, they said I would have to get that from my oncologist, if he wanted me to have it.  That is MY report.

    As far as allergies go, I don't have any.  This coughing has been getting worse every week and I've been having problems breathing.  I'my afraid that the lung nodules are getting bigger as well as the thyroid growths and between the two of them, my throat and lungs are closing up.  Hope I'm wrong, and hope that the scan will show what my insides look like, including my hip and pelvis bones, and my collarbone and shoulder blade.  Maybe I'm just getting paranoid and/or scared again.  I DO know that something just isn't "right". I can feel the difference inside...something is wrong.

  • Jojo61
    Jojo61 Member Posts: 1,309 Member
    #6
    Hi Tillie,
    I am so sorry for

    Hi Tillie,

    I am so sorry for how you are feeling. Get a chest xray done. Insist on getting a copy of your scans and hopefully it will be good. You must set your mind at ease. . It is easy to get all worried - and understandably so.Thinking about you. Let us know how it goes!!

    Hugs

    Jojo

  • Tbuck1971
    Tbuck1971 Member Posts: 50
    #7
    TillieSOK said:

    Well, my creatinine was too

    Well, my creatinine was too high for them to use contrast on today's scans.  I'm concerned about the quality of these scans.  I was told to take a deep breath and hold it, while they scanned, and immediately started coughing.  Same thing when they asked again, only coughed harder.  Then they said scan was over....WTH?  I asked if it was a full chest/abdomen/pelvis?  Yup!  Took all of 4 minutes.  I've NEVER had a scan take that little of time!  Not even a chest X-ray!!  I'm talking 4-5 minutes from the time I walked into the room, before I laid down on the table, until I was walking out of the room!   Anybody else have a scan that quick?  Oh and also, when I asked that they send me a copy of the report, they said I would have to get that from my oncologist, if he wanted me to have it.  That is MY report.

    As far as allergies go, I don't have any.  This coughing has been getting worse every week and I've been having problems breathing.  I'my afraid that the lung nodules are getting bigger as well as the thyroid growths and between the two of them, my throat and lungs are closing up.  Hope I'm wrong, and hope that the scan will show what my insides look like, including my hip and pelvis bones, and my collarbone and shoulder blade.  Maybe I'm just getting paranoid and/or scared again.  I DO know that something just isn't "right". I can feel the difference inside...something is wrong.

    Tillie - wishing you well!

    Tillie,

     

    Wishing you well and lots of prayers!  Hang in there and try to not let your worries get the better of you.

     

    Take care!

     

    Tom

  • Ree_Maryland
    Ree_Maryland Member Posts: 161 Member
    #8
    TillieSOK said:

    Well, my creatinine was too

    Well, my creatinine was too high for them to use contrast on today's scans.  I'm concerned about the quality of these scans.  I was told to take a deep breath and hold it, while they scanned, and immediately started coughing.  Same thing when they asked again, only coughed harder.  Then they said scan was over....WTH?  I asked if it was a full chest/abdomen/pelvis?  Yup!  Took all of 4 minutes.  I've NEVER had a scan take that little of time!  Not even a chest X-ray!!  I'm talking 4-5 minutes from the time I walked into the room, before I laid down on the table, until I was walking out of the room!   Anybody else have a scan that quick?  Oh and also, when I asked that they send me a copy of the report, they said I would have to get that from my oncologist, if he wanted me to have it.  That is MY report.

    As far as allergies go, I don't have any.  This coughing has been getting worse every week and I've been having problems breathing.  I'my afraid that the lung nodules are getting bigger as well as the thyroid growths and between the two of them, my throat and lungs are closing up.  Hope I'm wrong, and hope that the scan will show what my insides look like, including my hip and pelvis bones, and my collarbone and shoulder blade.  Maybe I'm just getting paranoid and/or scared again.  I DO know that something just isn't "right". I can feel the difference inside...something is wrong.

    SCAN

    I ALOS HAD A 4 MIN SCAN OF CHEST AB AND PELVIC EVERYTHING WAS OK SO FAR.

  • TillieSOK
    TillieSOK Member Posts: 252
    #9
    Ree_Maryland said:

    SCAN

    I ALOS HAD A 4 MIN SCAN OF CHEST AB AND PELVIC EVERYTHING WAS OK SO FAR.

    Good!  Mine have always been

    Good!  Mine have always been at least 30 minutes long, and this just kind of freaked me out for a few minutes.  I'm ok....and I'll be ok when I find out the results.  I think because my creatinine was higher than normal this time, it just scared me.  I've been doing everything I can to keep the creatinine down, and when it made a big jump, it was a surprise.  Have had a lot going on in my life and just had a short but impressive panic attack. LOL!  Sorry for the hysterics. ;)

  • Skagway Jack
    Skagway Jack Member Posts: 224 Member
    #10
    Best of Luck

    Scan-xiety.  I share it, my scan is on the 23rd.  So far I have dodged the stage IV bullet...knocking on wood. I hope for you a decrease in nodule sizes and numbers.  Positive vibs headed your way!

     

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