| Re: shadow on left lower lung on x-ray
With all those tests I'm sure they'd know if it were cancer. My father-in-law has it, but it was 2 tiny spots that were picked up easily on some test (and removed).
I heard various things could be the cause of something like that - have you ever had pneumonia or bronchitis really bad in the past? Many times that will leave scarring and will show up as a shadow. TB would too, but since you have no cough, that leaves that out. Even a cracked rib could show up as a lung shadow! So don't sit around thinking the worst, there are many other possibilities. And you mentioned pluresy - definite cause of a shadow! As for the boils? I don't know, since it's caused by bacteria entering the skin. Of course one is more susceptible to skin infections if they have diabetes; problems with the immune system; poor nutrition; poor hygiene or
exposure to harsh chemicals that irritate the skin...
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Hello, I'm 36 years old and I recently went to the doctors for a left swollen lymph gland in neck and swollen eyes and after the doctor listened to my lungs he ordered an x-ray of my chest. I have no other symptoms except for fatigue. The x-ray revievled a shadow in my lower left lung so the doctor told me he is going to send it off to a radiologist to look at and the report came back that it looks like emphysema do he ordered some other tests such as pulimanary function test, abg's test and a echiodiogram and all those tests came back fine. So I guess I don't have emphysema but this is 3 week later and I still have a swollen gland and fatigue,nothing else so he did another chest x-ray and nothings changed the shadow is still there so he ordered more tests such as regular blood work and a soft tissue cat scan of my neck and a cat scan of my chest I got the results of my blood work which came back fine. I'm still waiting on results of the cat scans. My ???'s are What could be wrong...can this be cancer? My mom died from lung cancer. I don't feel sick at all,I don't have a cough even though I smoke 1 pack a day for the past 20 years of cigs. I feel like I breathe just fine. Are the swollen gland and the shadow related? I've had pluresy attacks in the past and in the last year I've had 3 serious attacks too me anyways it lasted more longer and was more painful. In the past 3 years I broke out on my left side with deep boils under my arm then on my grion right by my privates and then on my abdomen all on my left side and then 2 of them were on my right abdomen. these boils were big and painful that left very bad scarring on my skin. Could all of this be realated? I would appreciate any advice or suggestions I could get. This waiting is getting the best of me. Thank-you....Nikki
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