 
#27226 03-13-2005 08:06 PM | Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 66 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | OP  Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 66 | I am wondering if any of you would mind sharing your stories about how you were diagnosed with cancer (symptoms, tests that didn't catch it and the one that did,ect.)and how long it took to be diagnosed after seeing a doctor? Maybe even how many doctors it took? Thank you. | | |
#27227 03-14-2005 12:24 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | I am sorry if I sound a little harsh but please don't ask us to continue to feed your hypochondria. You have been hanging around here now for 4 months and they haven't found anything. So get a grip, see a therapist, get some help and move on. If this subject really interests you, do a search in the archives and plenty of stories will pop up.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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"You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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#27228 03-14-2005 07:11 AM | Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 72 Supporting Member (50+ posts) | | Supporting Member (50+ posts)
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 72 | Gary is right, you need to get help for your obsession about oral cancer. A psychiatrist can help you figure out why the obession and how to deal with it. My mother developed an obession with cancer, became convinced she had it. She didn't. She died of pneumonia and the autopsy (requested by my grandmother, her mother) revealed that she had no cancer. It was all in her mind. You remind me of her in your obession with oral cancer. Like Gary, I don't mean to be cruel but you are one of the lucky ones, you don't have oral cancer. Cherish that finding & seek help for your obession. Good luck!
Sister of guy w/base of tongue cancer, Stage IV, Dx 4/03, finished Tx 9/03
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#27229 03-15-2005 07:19 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 218 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 218 | Man, I'll tell ya. If ya dont have it, dont worry. Their is an old saying around here. It aint cancer until they say it is. I would kill to be in your postion right now.
I am getting the feeling you are trying to write a book or something and are sponging off of us to get information.
If not, go see a shrink ya nut.
There, someone had to say it.
SCC 1.6cm Right Tonsil 10/3/03, 1 Node 3cm, T1N2AM0, Tonsil Removed, Selective Neck Disection, 4 Wks Induction Chemo (Taxol,Cisplatin), 8 Weeks Chemo/Radiation (5FU,Hydroxyurea,Iressa), IMRT x 40, Treatment Complete 2/13/04.
41 Years Old At Diagnosis
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#27230 03-15-2005 07:56 AM | Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 90 Senior Member (75+ posts) | | Senior Member (75+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2004 Posts: 90 | I have to agree with the other people who responded to you. You need to get medical help, but you need psychiatric help. As the Nike commercials say...."just do it"! For yourself and your family, get help.
Best of luck,
Shelley
Caregiver to husband, Ron. Throat cancer, Stage II. No Chemo or Surgery. Completed 35 Radiation Treatments in November 2004.
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#27231 03-15-2005 12:16 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 | Will you all please let this go away! | | |
#27232 03-15-2005 04:33 PM | Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts) | | Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,163 | Dear rdb7777,
Let it go!!!!
I wish I was in your shoes!!!
Dan
Daniel Bogan DX 7/16/03 Right tonsil,SCC T4NOMO. right side neck disection, IMRT Radiation x 33.
Recurrance in June 05 in right tonsil area. Now receiving palliative chemo (Erbitux) starting 3/9/06
Our good friend and loved member of the forum has passed away RIP Dannyboy 7-16-2006
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#27233 03-16-2005 04:26 PM | Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Gosh, I thought after a few weeks off, this was just a bad dream!  Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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#27234 03-17-2005 08:12 AM | Joined: May 2004 Posts: 218 Gold Member (200+ posts) | | Gold Member (200+ posts)
Joined: May 2004 Posts: 218 | God, and I thought I was a pain in the ass.
SCC 1.6cm Right Tonsil 10/3/03, 1 Node 3cm, T1N2AM0, Tonsil Removed, Selective Neck Disection, 4 Wks Induction Chemo (Taxol,Cisplatin), 8 Weeks Chemo/Radiation (5FU,Hydroxyurea,Iressa), IMRT x 40, Treatment Complete 2/13/04.
41 Years Old At Diagnosis
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#27235 03-17-2005 09:38 AM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 Platinum Member (200+ posts) | | Platinum Member (200+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 274 | Good work people. If someone makes a reply every day we can watch this post forever! | | |
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