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01-10-10, 15:18
Hi everyone….I’m back with a new worry. I’ve been having a really tough time lately.
After my vulvar cancer scare I worried about a brain tumor/aneurysm for about a week. I noticed about a month ago that my right pupil is larger than the left. I gave it some time to go back to normal and when it didn’t I freaked out. Then I googled :( I got upset and told my boyfriend that I was dying from a brain tumor, he cried and told me to go to the doctor. I decided to look at some pictures of me when I was little and realized that my pupil has been like this since I was at least 4…I’m assuming I was probably born that way. So I got over that.
Then my mind started focusing on my arm, which I injured almost a year ago. I was at a Halloween party last October and I got extremely intoxicated and fell into a radiator on my right arm. I woke up the next day and couldn’t move it at all. I never went to the doctor because of my fear of them. After a few days it started feeling better, so eventually when I could use it again I figured I had just sprained it or something. WRONG…I decided to go to the doctor about it yesterday, finally!! There’s a really hard lump where the injury was and I googled and found out that it could be some type of sarcoma. One site said that a sarcoma could be caused by an injury, but several others said this was NOT true and that sarcomas are sometimes felt because the person had sustained an injury. Almost every site I went to said that an injury is NOT a risk factor for sarcoma.
So I got my arm xrayed yesterday and saw the fracture in my arm. It was all the way across the bone and the xray tech told me that it healed up pretty straight, but that there was bone re-growth around the fracture spot. Is that even possible? I asked my GP if he thought it was serious and he said no, but that he didn’t think there was much we could do for it now. I kept asking him what he thought the lump was and he said “If you’re asking if I think it’s cancer, I don’t”. The rational part of my mind is telling me that this lump is from the obvious fracture in my arm, but the irrational part is telling me that maybe it IS a sarcoma. I don’t want to have a rare bone tumor. To make things worse, some sites say that sarcomas sometimes lead to amputation!!! I don’t want to lose my arm :(
I’m going to get a referral for an Orthopedic surgeon and see what I can do about this I guess….
After my vulvar cancer scare I worried about a brain tumor/aneurysm for about a week. I noticed about a month ago that my right pupil is larger than the left. I gave it some time to go back to normal and when it didn’t I freaked out. Then I googled :( I got upset and told my boyfriend that I was dying from a brain tumor, he cried and told me to go to the doctor. I decided to look at some pictures of me when I was little and realized that my pupil has been like this since I was at least 4…I’m assuming I was probably born that way. So I got over that.
Then my mind started focusing on my arm, which I injured almost a year ago. I was at a Halloween party last October and I got extremely intoxicated and fell into a radiator on my right arm. I woke up the next day and couldn’t move it at all. I never went to the doctor because of my fear of them. After a few days it started feeling better, so eventually when I could use it again I figured I had just sprained it or something. WRONG…I decided to go to the doctor about it yesterday, finally!! There’s a really hard lump where the injury was and I googled and found out that it could be some type of sarcoma. One site said that a sarcoma could be caused by an injury, but several others said this was NOT true and that sarcomas are sometimes felt because the person had sustained an injury. Almost every site I went to said that an injury is NOT a risk factor for sarcoma.
So I got my arm xrayed yesterday and saw the fracture in my arm. It was all the way across the bone and the xray tech told me that it healed up pretty straight, but that there was bone re-growth around the fracture spot. Is that even possible? I asked my GP if he thought it was serious and he said no, but that he didn’t think there was much we could do for it now. I kept asking him what he thought the lump was and he said “If you’re asking if I think it’s cancer, I don’t”. The rational part of my mind is telling me that this lump is from the obvious fracture in my arm, but the irrational part is telling me that maybe it IS a sarcoma. I don’t want to have a rare bone tumor. To make things worse, some sites say that sarcomas sometimes lead to amputation!!! I don’t want to lose my arm :(
I’m going to get a referral for an Orthopedic surgeon and see what I can do about this I guess….