Hi guys, I have difficulty breathing for about 10 years now, some days is worse than others. It's very tight and heavy chest at all times, feels like breathing through the straw and like I need to keep getting satisfying deep breath. I don't have cough. I had X-ray, CT scan, normal scan, blood tests, lung capacity tests as recent as 9 months ago and all was negative. I finally accepted it was anxiety and went to the doctor to ask for different anxiety pills. Because I moved to different area and he didn't know me he said to do x-ray to rule out anything physical. I had an x-ray to n Wednesday and on Thursday I had a call from my GP that they found something on my lungs and I was referred to chest clinic for urgent referral. They called me today and I'm going for scan tomorrow so everything is moving fairly quickly, which is worrying already. I went on my online medical report and the results from xray say this:
"The heart size is normal. There is a small opacity in the left upper zone. The lungs are otherwise clear. No previous available.Urgent referral to the chest clinic is suggested for further assessment."
And the referral was for suspected lung cancer.
Is this cancer guarantee? How likely is it that it could be something else if they referred me for suspected lung cancer?
I am absolutely terrified and haven't stopped crying all weekend. Please help?
I don't have any other symptoms and I'm 33.
Thanks!
Hi Markie9788 welcome to the group, but sorry you find yourself here. I think if there is opacity found on a lung x-ray, they have to follow a medical pathway for tests for cancer. This is terrifying I know, but it needs to be done to either rule cancer out, or get you on treatment as soon as possible. We all know how important early diagnoses is. No one can answer whether this is cancer or not, but it is so important to get to the bottom of this. The term suspected lung cancer wasn't used when I was told the results of my chest x-ray, they said it was cancer from the very beginning, so I will pray that your opacity proves to be something benign. Please let us know how you get on x
