Wow, I feel I am in the same boat as you.
This week was my last week of chemo, after 8 long months of it, but just this Friday I was told that my levels went up from a 5 to a 9. Now my oncologist has ordered me a PET SCAN. I ask myslef why didn't my doctor did a PET scan initially instead of the CAT scan I got? I just don't understand why if PET scan are more accurate why they don't do them instead of CAT scans. Are more expensive, is because of insurance puposes? I mean wouldn't it be more logical to have a PET scan at the first sign of trouble, back when they found out we had cancer?
I am scared because back when I got diagnosed I had a a CAT Scan on a Friday, and it showed nothing, then the next Friday I had an EDG and it showed nothing, the third Friday I had a colonoscopy and I found a tumor the size of a peach. If this CAT Scan did not pick a tumor the size of a peach, is this PET SCAN going to find one for sure, is there going to be more than one? I am very scared. I am scheduled for a PET scan this Tues. Perhaps it should had been done from the git go to avoid missin anything. I just don't get it.
Francisca