Lung Cancer or Mesothelioma and doctors?

Scared and Concerned · New User Joined: 19 Apr 2008 Posts: 2

[color=red]**Mods...Sorry if this is a double post.....but I don't know where to really put my concerns to get any feedback, so I am sorry if i should not do this and please let me know***[/color]

Hello All...I am so happy to find this site that I can actually get some feedback, on I hope?

In the past couple of years, i have developed a very hacky cough and i feel it harder to breathe as the months pass.

I have been to many sites about lung cancer, emphysema, and by accident stumbled upon mesothelioma and now I am very scared.

The very best site I have seen that doesn't just tell you the same things over and over about what it is....but actually gives you lots of information and resources to become proactive!

Anyway, what scares the living daylights out of me is that i have been exposed to asbestos for many years of my life without even knowing it!

The website i mentioned above has a video that shows advertisements for all the home products that were selling like hotcakes. And of course my parents used on our house. [b]It also has a video of documented PROOF back in the 50's that asbestos caused cancer!!![/b] before they were advertising and selling it like water.

Not only that, but as a young girl, I recall helping my dad as he built our house himself. Part of that was the pretty pink insulation that I loved because it was such a pretty color and such an odd texture. I would pull pieces apart just because it was different....and NO, no mask, no anything! My father died of 'lung cancer' that they chalked up to smoking, but now I am not so sure. He built a lot of houses in the late 50's to late 60's and was only diagnosed 2 years ago...very sudden and gone within 6 months...Sad

Then there have been jobs where I have worked around asbestos products without even knowing they contained asbestos...again, no masks, no protection!!! I mean brake pads for crying out loud!!! My grandpa was a mechanic. I hung out with him many times in his garage learning about fixing cars!!

My fear is that this cough and lack of breathing ability is getting worse and what if I am too late? What if it is not just smoking, but this whole asbestos thing?

When I talk to my doctor about it he says "oh this whole mesothelioma thing is just way over-blown???? OVER BLOWN???...when it causes DEATH??

I of course want to go to a different doctor who will at least do some tests to figure out what is going on. See I mentioned I smoke, so yes it could just be that I should not smoke, which is what my doctor now says it will be if I am developing lung cancer.

My my question to anyone here reading this: Has anyone else experienced doctors that blow off concerns about mesothelioma as 'people are wanting tests for it because of the possibility of initiating a lawsuit that might help myself or my family if i were to die'???

The more I have read and learn the more scared I am becoming. I wonder how many people that are diagnosed with 'lung cancer' actually have/had mesothelioma??

Sorry for the long post, but that website I mentioned gave me so much more information than any of the other mesothelioma sites that really opened my eyes!

Please, if anyone else has experienced similar doctor's responses, I would like to hear it. Are there are doctors out there misdiagnosing, and if so, should they not be held responsible as well? Where does the responsibility ultimately start or end? The companies that produce and promote asbestos products or the doctors that misdiagnose as well?

Thank you for taking the time to read and thank you more if you can give me similar stories about your doctor's attitude towards regular lung cancer vs: mesothelioma.

Kind regards to all reading and prayers for all who are suffering with any type of cancer right now... ~Anna
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helensgirl

Hi,
I don't know anything about Mesothelioma or lawsuits, but I do know fear, and your post deserves a response. My advise is that you go to another doctor about the disease...and God bless...Take care, Kim
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koikkeril · Super Moderator Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 334

Hi, I am sorry that you lost your father recently from Lung cancer and I can certainly understand the reason why you are so scared. I agree with Helensgirls advice, see another Doctor. The quicker you can find out the less stress for you. Perhaps and being hopeful your cough is not cancer and a simple allergy problem which can affect breathing also! It is best to check it out? I am also suffering the symptoms that you are explaining and my husband who has the lung cancer was fearful that I had the same as him, because we were also pulling down a house full of old asbestos. He spoke to his oncologist who arranged a scan for me, it showed emphysema. I am very careful now, not to use air-sprays, perfumes or be near those who smoke. If you are smoking my advise is try your level best to stop! I wish you the best and hopefully you will check it out with a Doctor and let us know? Bless you, take care, koik

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