'Moral of the story: GET IT CHECKED!!! If the doctor pooh-poohs it, get it checked by a different doctor. Ultimately, what you do is up to you, but if you want to see your children's graduations, walk your little girl down the aisle, and hold your grandchildren in your arms someday...just get it checked.
"Moral of the story: GET IT CHECKED!!! If the doctor pooh-poohs it, get it checked by a different doctor. Ultimately, what you do is up to you, but if you want to see your children's graduations, walk your little girl down the aisle, and hold your grandchildren in your arms someday...just get it checked.","Cancer Survivors of Reddit, what was the symptom that convinced you to see the doctor?" As a hypochondriac, you better bet I read every response.
"One afternoon, I finished peeing, and afterward, looking down, I noticed the water had a pink tint. No pain, nothing. I went to a local urologist who set up some simple tests. My left kidney was completely eaten up with cancer. Except for that pink water, there were no other symptoms. I had surgery and have had no more problems."
"I had a bit of pain in my nuts I was ignoring, and then my friend's golden retriever jumped up to greet me and hit me right in the sweet spot. That hurt more than it should have, and I went to the doctor that week. He sent me for an ultrasound, and there's nothing like having two women collaborate to ultrasound one's testicles. Doc removed the offending nut, and since it was cancer, I had four weeks of abdominal radiation. All cured 28 years ago.
"I'm not a survivor myself, but my daughter is in the long-term maintenance portion of recovery from leukemia. Leukemia is a blood cancer, so bruising is generally one of the first signs. My daughter started having mosquito bites turn into bruises the size of softballs. So the morning she woke up at four years old with black and blue legs and arms from playing outside on the swing set the night before, we knew we had a problem.
After a few months of daily radiation treatments, chemo every other week, and one last scan, I was told the throat cancer was in remission. Yay! "I had a fever of 102 to 103 for four days straight, extreme exhaustion, and then I started having terrible night sweats. I've already had two heart transplants, so I'm pretty used to toughing it out when I'm sick. I waited for four weeks to go to the doctor. The first doctor couldn't find anything wrong with me and said to take Tylenol for the fever. I had a weird feeling, so I booked an appointment with my old pediatrician, even though I was 19.
"I had nagging abdominal pain like a pulled muscle that persisted for over a month. The doctor mostly ignored me for the first three visits. I had my gallbladder out for gallstones, but the pain persisted. Doctors said it was pleurisy — nothing to worry about. I finally got mad and took myself to the ER and said I had chest pain. The X-ray tech saw a faint shadow and asked the doctor if we could take another look. It turned out to be a baseball-sized tumor : Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma.
Fortunately, it was, although it was also sitting in the skin right over the shinbone, which presented an issue for cutting it out since there was barely enough skin to close the wound. I was able to get a great surgeon who was able to do it without any skin grafts. "I had a sore on my stomach, and whenever I had sun exposure, it would get red and itchy and then scab. I just thought it was an irritation, so I put it off. Every night I would have this recurring dream with someone telling me to go the doctor and pointing at the spot on my stomach. So, I made an appointment with my doctor and learned I had basal cell skin cancer. I was put on chemo cream that basically ate all of the bad cells away.
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