I'm waiting for MRI results and getting pretty antsy in the
interim. I had a bone tumor, recurrent, 7 years ago, resulting in
amputation, a chondrosarcoma. I have annual CTs of my
lungs, since a met, if it happened, would likely be there, according to
my oncologist. Last week the CT showed an increase in fatty liver
(which I didn't know I had) and a "suspicious area" in the liver in
4b. The mass was about 3
cm.
I talked to my oncologist a couple of days later, and he tended to
discount the importance, although he told me to have an MRI of the
liver right away and to see a gut doctor (who saw me for about 2
minutes & took more blood). The MRI was last week, and I
still haven't heard about the results. I function better when I know
what I'm dealing with, and this waiting is killing me.
I don't drink at all, have no hx of hep. I gained
about 80 lbs after the amputation, as a side effect of the
medication I take reflex sympathetic dystrophy , a complication of the
amputation. I take an amazing amount of medicine for pain
control. Our family has an odd history of illness, including
mastocytosis, neurofibromatosis, peptic ulcer, cirrosis (from
alcoholism).
I haven't been feeling well for a long time. This extra weight
seems utterly resistant to my efforts to lose it, and I've been
extremely fatigued, with itchy skin, pins and needles feelings in my
feet, and pretty pronounced swelling in my feet and hands. I've
developed asthma, osteoporosis, stage II kidney failure, and HTN
all since the amputation.
Do you know anything about the rates of liver cancer, the odds of its
occurance after a chondrosarcoma, and whether these problems are even
consistent with it? My friends tell me to call my oncologist
right away to get these results, but I'm reluctant to bother
him. Seems a little silly, but still. I'm
kind of a mess just waiting.