Secondary Breast cancer wrongly diagnosed as COPD

[Briege60]

I am hoping someone can give me information or advice.
I have been treated for 10 months as having first,asthma and then COPD, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
I  had an x-ray which apparently showed nothing and some breathing tests. As a result I was prescibed several different inhalers which I continually maintained were making me feel worse,my exact words were, "I feel as if I am being poisoned". Eventually as the illness became worse and my breathing and coughing were very distressing my GP organised another x-ray and another appiontment at the respiratory clinic in the hospital. The second x-ray showed what the consultant called, inflamation on both lungs. I explained to him I did not think the inhalers were helping infact I thought they were making me feel worse.He advised me to stop taking the inhalers and organised a CT scan. The CT scan did not appear to give them any more information than the x-ray, that there was inflamation on both lungs and I then had a  bronchoscopy (lung biopsy). The result was I have secondary breast cancer. I had breast cancer 16 years ago, I had a mastectomy and hormone treatment and also 3 benign lumps removed from my other breast. I am still waiting to see the oncologist to discuss treatment etc.
My family and friends are devastated as this problem has been ongoing for so long and the GP's or consultants never investigated a return of the cancer, and as I had always maintained that the inhalers were making me feel worse.

Has any one any thoughs on this or advice. Many thanks

[japdip]

I'm sorry that you have lost 10 months of treatment due to this mis-diagnosis. Given the length of time since your original cancer I can't say that I'm shocked that it happened though. It's been my experience that if I have a complaint, cancer is the first thing they consider. The symptoms might easily be confused if you had no pain or coughing never produced any blood. My only thought is the hope that you will soon be receiving proper treatment for this cancer. Maybe be should all be paranoid and insist that anything abnormal should be attributed to our previous cancer even though this is the exact opposite of what we want to think.  Wishing you well in your treatment.  Kindest regards ....

[Briege60]

Thank you for your comments. Its reasurring to know that others are thinking about me. I have an oncology appointment on Tuesday this week, and will keep you posted.
My kind regards to all, you are doing a grand job. God Bless, Briege xxx