Toby2000
18-01-18, 02:44
Hi,
Some of you may remember me as the crazily neurotic guy from a couple of years ago who always used to worry about his mother's health, and I used to worry a lot about lung cancer because she was a smoker and I always felt like she had something wrong with her. Well a couple of years later she's still here, thank god, there was obviously nothing wrong with her back then and I've moved on to other worries for the last couple of years.
But I feel like it's all starting up again because over the past week and a half her health has been awful. She's had
- A bad cough (a little bit better now)
- A hoarse voice (improving now, her voice is almost back)
- Really dramatic weight loss (could be due to diarrohea and lack of appetite)
- Diarrohea
- Loss of appetite
Now in the UK there's this whole Aussie flu thing so I've been assuming that it's all been down to that. She went to the GP the other day and they listened to her chest and everything and diagnosed her with the flu. They also gave her antibiotics which she's been taking and she does seem a little better since
..but tonight I noticed that her feet were quite swollen. This is the point where I really started worrying because after some googling I realised that this could be a sign of liver failure.. possibly from lung cancer that metastasised to the liver. I'm probably being dramatic but why else would her feet swell up? She thinks it's because she's been lying down a lot because obviously she's been ill, but I don't buy that because she's been walking around a bit too.
This accompanied with the other main staples of lung cancer (which she also has).. weight loss, a cough, tiredness could suggest lung cancer right? Or do you think it's just the flu?
Thanks for reading:unsure:
Some of you may remember me as the crazily neurotic guy from a couple of years ago who always used to worry about his mother's health, and I used to worry a lot about lung cancer because she was a smoker and I always felt like she had something wrong with her. Well a couple of years later she's still here, thank god, there was obviously nothing wrong with her back then and I've moved on to other worries for the last couple of years.
But I feel like it's all starting up again because over the past week and a half her health has been awful. She's had
- A bad cough (a little bit better now)
- A hoarse voice (improving now, her voice is almost back)
- Really dramatic weight loss (could be due to diarrohea and lack of appetite)
- Diarrohea
- Loss of appetite
Now in the UK there's this whole Aussie flu thing so I've been assuming that it's all been down to that. She went to the GP the other day and they listened to her chest and everything and diagnosed her with the flu. They also gave her antibiotics which she's been taking and she does seem a little better since
..but tonight I noticed that her feet were quite swollen. This is the point where I really started worrying because after some googling I realised that this could be a sign of liver failure.. possibly from lung cancer that metastasised to the liver. I'm probably being dramatic but why else would her feet swell up? She thinks it's because she's been lying down a lot because obviously she's been ill, but I don't buy that because she's been walking around a bit too.
This accompanied with the other main staples of lung cancer (which she also has).. weight loss, a cough, tiredness could suggest lung cancer right? Or do you think it's just the flu?
Thanks for reading:unsure: