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They found a mass: How do you cope with anxiety and all the tests etc?

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Nov 25, 2022 | Replies (157)
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@loula

Hello Merry
No one at the doctors office ever told me anything about coughing up blood that it has something to do with the lung cancer, 1st time at ER they did nothing just told me it was a minor hemoptysis. said if it happens again to just call on call nurse and come back, so later that evening it started again nurse said go back so this time I made sure they done a CT or X-ray, doctor this time said yes this is caused by the lung cancer and if I cough up more than a cup! that is serious they said the X-ray came back fine just need to make it to my appt. for chemo on Wednesday he said it could take a couple chemo treatments for this to stop the coughing and blood. don't you think my oncologist should of advised me of this it scared the crap out of me. going to be a sunny day today this weekend it gets colder 49 but daylight savings starts, do you have that where you live?

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Merry, Alumni Mentor | @merpreb | Mar 8, 2021

@loula- I understand how you feel about the doctor not telling you that you might cough up blood. Last year I had a situation close to this. I expected one thing in the growth of my lesions and my doctors never cleared it up for me. When I found out I had a fit. But that involved only me and doctors can't tell every patient what they might expect because they just don't know. With my first cancer which was very fast-growing, I did cough up blood, as I said. It was very small too. So it really depends on the person.

Have I suggested that you research your type of lung cancer to see what you might expect and then with your chemo to come?

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