I have recently been diagnosed with my third neuroendocrine tumor

Sorry I registered but can not login. I am on Octreotide LAR 30mg<br><br>

Hi, I was recently diagnosed with neoendocrine tumors and autoimmune gastritis. So far I was told to do nothing at present since the tumor was nonmiotic. What did they do for you? I would prefer the tumors be removed. Loretta<br><br>

Gaylejean:  The OctreoScan is a two day scan that specifically looks for carcinoids. The first day you have a radioactive injection and then later in the day you go back for a series of scans, and then the second day you go back in the afternoon for some more scans.  Here is a website that will put you in touch with support groups in the U.S. http://www.carcinoid.org/resources/support-groups/directory/.  Even though you might not be able to get to a meeting you might find some personal support through email or phone calls.  I have found that people with carcinoids are very helpful, thoughtful, people who understand what it is like to have something that no one else understands.   I'm sorry to hear that your family is not supportive of you at this time, sometimes we need to find our own support family in other places.  Keep in touch! <br><br>

Also check with acor.org.<br>Association for cancer online resource<br><br>

Welcome @gaylejean and @lorettanebraska.
I moved your messages to this thread so you can meet others with neuendocrine tumors. So glad you found us on Connect.

I don't know if I have autoimmune gastritis. And I don't understand the<br>term nonmitotic - means not comparable - to what? Means you don't have<br>other tumors to compare it to?????<br>Since my diagnosis, I have seen four specialists - all of them recommended<br>the wait and watch approach. It drives you crazy because you read about<br>having surgery early to remove the tumor before it spreads. I was diagnosed<br>in 2002 and asked for surgery in 2008. It was too late to do any good<br>because of the metastasis but it was good I had surgery - saved me from<br>dying from "blue bowel".<br><br>

Never said my family was not supportive.<br><br>

My apologies, it must have been someone else.

@colleenyoung I would like to thank you for great service to the patients and caregiver, I have contact with a few more support group and I spend so much time to learn from others. Since I have so much to do I am only interested in Neuroendocrine cancer issues and stop receiving other type health issues. I appreciate your help in this manner.

Thanks,
Ozzie

Thank you @gulzar,
You can set your notification settings to receive only messages from the discussion about neuroendocrine cancer issues by going into your account settings https://connect.mayoclinic.org/account, scroll to the bottom and tick the box that says ONLY INCLUDE THE SPECIFIC THREADS AND GROUPS I AM FOLLOWING IN MY DIGEST.

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I hope this helps.
I would also like to let you know that at the end of November, we will be opening a new group dedicated to neuroendocrine tumors.