Weirdnesses when you have cancer: praying for zits...

Laurie09

I have a bump that's painful on my scalp right near my hairline. I know from my bone scans that I have mets in my calvarium, so I initially worried this could be a scalp met. Consequently I caught myself praying this morning, "I really hope this is a zit..." And then I got a chuckle out of it, I never thought I'd be praying for zits. (I really think it's a zit, it hurts like a zit, it's just big and red and sore).

Feel free to share other weirdnesses you have experienced in this journey. LOL

exbrnxgrl

Funny! I am thrilled to have arthritis rather than new bone mets. Hooray for arthritis

JFL

Your posts make me laugh. I too have prayed for arthritis and running injuries in various bones. Also, I developed a red, itchy circle on my skin near one of my original breast tumors a week ago and I first prayed it was a mosquito bite and now pray it is eczema (rather than skin mets).

HLB

I have a fes strange red marks showing up on my legs. They're barely noticable. I have been putting fankinsence oil on them. One of them became raised and itchy and looked just like mosquito bite for a few days. Now it's shrunken down to a tiny red pimple with no itching. I have 2 of these wierd spots on each leg in random areas. I was concerned thing oh god, skim mets, but now I'm not so worried. They are not close to each other and it just seems like an unlikely place to get skin mets.

A few months ago while in the shower I happened to notice a bump on the cancer breast, which has an implant. I felt my face get hot and wierd heartbeat, like 😰 I had recurrence in the cancer area. It was just my recon nipple. I have no idea why it scared me SO MUCH that day! I mean it's been there for 11 years and it just jumped out at me in a weird way that day. I guess I have a lot of anxiety even though I don't usually feel anxious.