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Anyone have a stomach NET?

Posted by isaiah5417nt @isaiah5417nt, Mar 26, 2023

Anyone have a stomach NET?

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pokeymama | @pokeymama | Apr 28, 2025
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Hi pokeymama,

It broke my heart to read what you're going through. It sounds as though Kaiser is doing all it can, but it *is* challenging to find specialists who know what they're talking about. After my Providence provider congratulated me for "having the best cancer that you can have, since it never metastasizes," then meeting someone who DID have metastatic NET, I switched my care to the UCSF NET Center.

UCSF is fine as far as procedures go, but I had a very discouraging visit with their GI NET NP last week who couldn't understand, or would not listen to my digestive symptoms, which as someone with SIBO, I'm sure you can relate to. I'm so tired of being talked down to by ignorant people, as I'm sure you are, too.

My heart goes out to you, and hope you find the care that you deserve. Please keep me posted.

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Pamela, have you had a gallium 68 scan yet? How were they able to locate your tumors? I’m pushing for an endoscopy with ultrasound because my docs think my primary might be ‘hiding’
Are you saying that your docs don’t think it will spread out of the stomach?
As for ignorant and condescending health experts I’ve had years of them! I was once told to go home to my husband and stop bothering him! I sent him my diagnosis a year later, lol. So frustrating

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pamela | @pamela1685 | Apr 29, 2025
In reply to @pokeymama "Pamela, have you had a gallium 68 scan yet? How were they able to locate your..." + (show)
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Pamela, have you had a gallium 68 scan yet? How were they able to locate your tumors? I’m pushing for an endoscopy with ultrasound because my docs think my primary might be ‘hiding’
Are you saying that your docs don’t think it will spread out of the stomach?
As for ignorant and condescending health experts I’ve had years of them! I was once told to go home to my husband and stop bothering him! I sent him my diagnosis a year later, lol. So frustrating

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Hi pokeymama,

Omg, how infuriating that you were told by a (male, I'm sure) doc to be quiet and go home to your husband. Ugh. I'm so sorry.

I asked about getting a scan when I went to UCSF, but was told not to bother, because "It would show things that you'd rather not know about," i.e. tumors so tiny that there's nothing that can be done. So I agreed, and that was that.

They found the malignant tumors during an upper endoscopy, which they removed. They don't things will metastasize any time soon, since the tumors are small.

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