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How do you deal with monitoring a lung nodule and anxiety?

Lung Health | Last Active: Jul 21 10:16pm | Replies (47)

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@frouke

I was drawn to your comment as to how one copes with nodules under observation because it really hit a nerve with me, if I had the answer to this question, I would gladly have done it. I had read an article about getting a ct scan after quitting smoking, it was highly recommended in case there's anything wrong. I managed to get a doctor to do so and sure enough I had a nodule in upper left lobe that they referred to as suspicious, it had some of the known signs but no one was calling it cancer yet. They told me biopsy wasn't possible because it was under 9 cm. and too risky to try so I had to follow up with ct scans for three years and in 2020 it turned into cancer with another nodule showing up beside it...they decided to remove the upper lobe to be safe from spreading. I was done with my treatment and they felt I didn't need anything else. I with there was a better way to cope with the stress this disease causes, I have tried so many things to do so and still the "fear" is strong. I looked for help online and found this place to try and find some answers and I did find many answers to my questions. I don't feel quite as alone and although I know that we have to deal with what life gives us but I also believe in strength in numbers, it really helps to find others to talk to and hear what they went through and also what they did to get help.,,it's never perfect but we try to make the most of what there is. I really feel you're in a good place, you had early detection and it doesn't get better than that, thanks to early detection they have announced that lung cancer is no longer a death sentence, that's the most encouraging news I've heard in years. It doesn't sound like you have anything to worry about and you know they didn't find any cancer, having nodules in your lungs are caused from exposure to the pollution in the air is very common and most often the nodules are benign, also you never smoked and that's a big plus for you, all the best to you.

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I’m just correcting my previous message about lung nodules…I said my nodule was under 9 cm. but it should be 9 mm., this was in reference to the nodule being too small to biopsy.