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Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Welcome to OCF, Shell! So sorry you are going thru a recurrence scare! Unfortunately many of us have been thru this also and it can be a very horrible experience.
PET scans are known to cause false positives. This is why doctors usually wait for at least 3 months after rads to do the scan. Its happened to me too and it seemed to take forever before they could recheck me. Its not easy but try your very best to still go about your life. When the "what if's" creep into the back of your mind allow yourself only a few minutes to go there then change the channel. This will take alot of practice. Try your very best to go out and live your life without letting cancer steal your time from you.
Wishing you all the best and hopefully it turns out to be nothing more than residual inflammation.
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
