Coughing up blood - so worried

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nickythebean
nickythebean Member Posts: 50
edited March 2015 in Not Diagnosed With a Recurrence or Metastases but Concerned

I have been coughing up bright red blood for 2 days now. Not just speckles - full red sputum. I have had a smallish but persistent cough for about 5 weeks now (the first week was the flu, and the cough just seemed to linger after that). Went to primary doc today. Listened to lungs and heard nothing. Not concerned with pneumonia or bronchitis. Also confirmed it wasn't a nosebleed issue. I have tightness/heaviness in my chest, but I'm not sure I noticed it until the blood showed up, so that may be stress. What could this be?!? Of course, my mind immediately goes to lung mets. CT scheduled for Friday morning.

Not sure if my cancer history shows up below or not, but I was dx with HER2+ ER+ tumor in left breast the size of an orange (seriously) in August 2012. (For those of you wondering how it could grow to the size of an orange without anyone noticing, it had a spiderweb type habit to it, and no one, even the onc, could feel it). Had chemo first to reduce size, then double mx, more chemo, and radiation. Then had total hysterectomy. Cannot tolerate an aromatase inhibitor. BRCA- and P53- My mom was dx with triple negative breast cancer this past November, and her dad had double breast cancer and eventually died from it. Clearly genetic, but gene just hasn't been identified yet.

Anyway, I have 5 kids (ages 4-12) and a husband who travels 50% of the time for work. I am praying this isn't mets.

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  • Jenwith4kids
    Jenwith4kids Member Posts: 635
    edited March 2015

    I am praying for you too Nicky.

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  • Nancy2581
    Nancy2581 Member Posts: 1,234
    edited March 2015

    good thoughts for you Nicky. I hope this is something that can be taken care of easily and has nothing to do with nasty C.

    Hugs

    Nancy

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  • Morwenna
    Morwenna Member Posts: 1,063
    edited March 2015

    Naturally I hope that you won't find it is mets, but at least the CT should clarify what, if anything is going on. It could just be a small vessel that was disrupted by coughing, in a similar way that repeated nose blowing can cause nose bleeds.

    Regarding your tumour size, imaging on mine inferred a diameter of less than 3 cm, complex cyst, but once aspirated could barely be seen at all, nor felt ...... But my final post surgical pathology showed a diameter of "at least 8cm", with positive margins at both extremities of the resected portion!

    Fingers crossed for Friday!

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  • Sunny_Girl
    Sunny_Girl Member Posts: 111
    edited March 2015

    Sending positive thoughts & hugs your way.

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