Cancer.. i have it

[postmortemIA]

thanks for sharing, best of luck.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Damn. Good luck.

 

[Fenixgoon]

oh damn slag, good luck

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HTF did nobody identify this before?!

my thoughts exactly. how do you miss a tumor the size of a golf ball?

sorry to hear man - hopefully it's not malignant and the docs can remove it without issue :thumbsup:

 

[Platypus]

I hope you pull through, slag.

I've been let down many times by western medicine as well, sadly this isn't surprising to me.

 

[TheVrolok]

Your situation is exactly why I generally don't care for doctors. Seems like most doctors treat people like cattle, more interested in how much volume they can do rather than actually listening to their patients.

At least you have, hopefully, been properly diagnosed now. Best wishes to you and have a speedy recovery.

Unfortunately pressure comes from above. I've seen ambulatory guys not have their contracts renewed because they weren't seeing someone every 15 minutes.

 

[stargazr]

Sorry to hear that. Hope all goes well.

 

[Ares202]

Best of luck OP. Stay strong.

Unfortunately your story is one of many where doctors want you out the door as quick as possible.

 

[z1ggy]

Hope it comes back non cancer. If it does, hopefully you can get it removed before it starts spreading. Best of luck.

 

[purbeast0]

good luck man, stay positive no matter what happens, it truly helps BIG time!

 

[Omar F1]

Hope you'd get over it soon and return to your normal life.

I can't really imagine what you're going through, thanks for sharing and waiting to hear about your recovery so soon.

 

[Ichinisan]

You've made me start worrying about this, so I'm going to see an ENT. I think my medical plan still requires me to see a primary care physician before I can see an ENT or specialist.

2-3 years ago, I went through this and got the doctor to give a referral to an ENT. After a couple of visits with the ENT, the ENT canceled the next visit because of some strange bureaucratic thing where the doctor that issued the original referral had to approve something, but he shut his practice for months and relocate or join some group or something after a new hospital was built in the area. I can't really remember exactly what it was. You couldn't even talk to someone at the doctor's office. There was just a recording.

I just stopped trying to resolve my throat problems and haven't been to a doctor for anything since. I might need to choose a new primary care physician now.

Gonna ask HR for advice...

 

[JTsyo]

Wishing you the best.

 

[waffleironhead]

http://m.memegenerator.net/instance/61724641

Best of luck on a swift recovery.

 

[Paladin3]

Sorry to hear about your cancer, Slag, hang in there. Doctors are under so much pressure to turn over patients that they sometimes will assume the easiest diagnosis available and move on. It's a shame.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Sorry to hear that, man Has anyone else in your family had cancer?

 

[KeithTalent]

Sorry to hear slag. Hope you feel better man.

KT

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Is your ENT fellowship trained in Head and Neck surgery or just some general ENT in the community? I'm really surprised it wasn't caught after the first surgery. I'd consider getting a second opinion at a large academic center on whether you should have surgery, radiation, or surgery+radiation. There are pro's and con's to each modality and all have significant side effects.

+1 big time. Lotsa positive vibes for you Slag. Make sure your affairs are in order. Updated will and advance directive for your families sake.

 

[skyking]

Hang in there man. Thanks for sharing and if you need to chat, PM me or post it up here. We are here for you.

 

[NuclearNed]

Good luck, dude. I said a prayer for you this morning.

 

[keird]

Though it's scary, in this day and age, the big C is treatable and in many cases manageable. A co-worker has bone cancer and despite all the appointments and treatments, they're helping. My co-worker is still working; the appointments seem like an inconvenience.

My wife also had a bilateral mastectomy a few years ago because of cancer. She's doing well, too.

My thoughts are with you, Slag.

 

[slag]

Sorry to hear that, man Has anyone else in your family had cancer?

My mother had her thyroid removed when she was 19. My oldest sister had thyroid cancer in 2010. My dad's dad died of cancer.

 

[alien42]

this post was far more detailed than your post on FMDF but it did give me a serious deja vu moment for a second there, small world.

hang in there and stay strong.

 

[DesiPower]

Sorry to hear that dude, stay strong and best of luck. I you will win.

 

[PhoKingGuy]

AT Doc in training with an interest in Critical Care/Hematology Oncology:

Nerve pain is NOT usually controlled with narcotics, its not indicated and if a prescriber gets into the habit of using it for such without a documented history of exhausting all other options the DEA will be after your license in a hurry. Normally for CRPS/Nerve pain we try nerve modulators first (Gabapentin/Lyrica etc), then progress to antipsychotics (carbamazepine, etc)n or even antidepressants (amitryptaline is a common one) then go from there onto different things depending on what works vs doesnt work but usually one of the above does it.

The etiology of such is also important, is it diabetic? Pinched or compressed nerve due to arthritis or inflammation? Muscle related? Or some other thing (CRPS, etc). The answer to these questions determines treatment.

References for the above:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lecomlrc.lecom.edu/pubmed?term=16009087
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lecomlrc.lecom.edu/pubmed?term=17134466

Wishing you the best, but head and neck cancers are a different animal, and diagnosis of them is often incredibly difficult. I'd love to order at head/neck CT on everyone that came in with a sore throat and difficulty swallowing but seriously that is almost about 95% of what comes into the ED/GP office everyday. It does appear that the proper channels were followed though in your case.

In your case, you dont have the number 1 cause of ENT cancer (smoking) (what is your history of alcohol intake?) so I dont think many providers would have thought that to be the cause from the get go. The other etiologies usually arise from HPV/Squamous of unknown primary or simple squamous cell, or something of glandular origin. You will know more once they complete their TNM staging/PET scan/Biopsy pathology. Results though for the treatment of stage 1 and 2 disease usually are quite good with a 5 year survival rate of 70-90%

 

[slag]

AT Doc in training with an interest in Critical Care/Hematology Oncology:

Nerve pain is NOT usually controlled with narcotics, its not indicated and if a prescriber gets into the habit of using it for such without a documented history of exhausting all other options the DEA will be after your license in a hurry. Normally for CRPS/Nerve pain we try nerve modulators first (Gabapentin/Lyrica etc), then progress to antipsychotics (carbamazepine, etc)n or even antidepressants (amitryptaline is a common one) then go from there onto different things depending on what works vs doesnt work but usually one of the above does it.

The etiology of such is also important, is it diabetic? Pinched or compressed nerve due to arthritis or inflammation? Muscle related? Or some other thing (CRPS, etc). The answer to these questions determines treatment.

References for the above:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lecomlrc.lecom.edu/pubmed?term=16009087
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.lecomlrc.lecom.edu/pubmed?term=17134466

Wishing you the best, but head and neck cancers are a different animal, and diagnosis of them is often incredibly difficult. I'd love to order at head/neck CT on everyone that came in with a sore throat and difficulty swallowing but seriously that is almost about 95% of what comes into the ED/GP office everyday. It does appear that the proper channels were followed though in your case.

In your case, you dont have the number 1 cause of ENT cancer (smoking) (what is your history of alcohol intake?) so I dont think many providers would have thought that to be the cause from the get go. The other etiologies usually arise from HPV/Squamous of unknown primary or simple squamous cell, or something of glandular origin. You will know more once they complete their TNM staging/PET scan/Biopsy pathology. Results though for the treatment of stage 1 and 2 disease usually are quite good with a 5 year survival rate of 70-90%

I drink a 6 pack of beer a year if that. Probably 10 mixed drinks a year as well. I do not smoke. I'm hoping it is squamous origin with hpv as the ENT said it responds well to radiation. I have no idea how long of a regimen it would take, but I'm putting the cart before the horse.