I hope it is ok with everyone that I am here. I have lost both my parents
my dad in 1983 and my mom in 2003 to lung cancer. I am here now
because of fear of my husband having lung cancer. I will run down what
is going on with my husband { Dave } and maybe someone can help
me. :-} Hubby is 39 and a smoker for 26 years . He has had some
problems with a lymph node in his neck for a year now. It began after
having a filling { his first one ever} so we assumed the node swelling
was due to the dental work because the tooth would hurt at the same
time the node would flare up. About 8 weeks ago it flared up after my
entire family had a flu bug. The node was the size of a baseball and
very tender and he began getting headaces and fevers several nights
a week and had a seizure one night. He had enough at went to the ER
about 4 weeks ago and all they did was check his blood normal results
and put him on antibiotics and called this a submandibular mass. He went
to are clinic { waiting on are insurance} and at first thought this may
just be a case of mono he wanted to wait a week to see if it would
shrink in size. Actualy it did begin to shrink but the night before his
appt. with the doctor it flared back up. The doctor wanted him to get a
cat scan. We went in for the results of the cat scan and this visit the
doctor could see for himself how much the node had went down in size.
He said never the less at the time of cat scan the mass/node was 6cm
and pressing against his jugular vein and it needed out. He said the
good news is the neck mass is more likely to be infection not cancer
due to it going up and down in size. The bad news was when they did
the cat scan to his neck it got the upper parts of his lungs and they seen
a small nodule. The doc said they have to do a full cat scan now to
see the bottom of lungs. He said he does not think its cancer but yes
it could be. We are on a wait now because we will not have are ins. for
3 weeks or so and everything with this clinic is very slow paced.
This is so different from the symptoms my mom and dad had when
they had lung cancer. Can anyone relate to his symptoms? Anyone
ever had a lung nodule? I search the internet and get conflicting info
on lung nodules. One will say if you are a smoker 70% chance this is
cancer another says a 40% chance another even said in his age bracket
a 15 % chance. The doctor tested him for TB it came back neg. What
other types of infections can cause lung nodules? Any info would be
greatly appreciated. Haylee
