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lung, throat, headaches, pain, strange sensations....

im 20 yo male.. this all started 2 1/2 months ago. it was at first a strange feeling in my throat, like there was something stuck in there. it almost feels like there is a metal pipe stuck in there... i also started having really strange headaches and back pain.. i went to an ent and he said there was nothing wrong, just some inflamation . he gave me some antibiotics.... it never worked.. i saw my oncologist ( i had rhabdomiosarcoma 5 yrs ago) he took a chest xray and a neck and head ct scan and all came up clear....  everything started getting much worse... symptoms kept on adding on such as: pain behind the eyes, muscle twitching,  pain on back of head, cough, strange weasing noise when couching (like rattling)... i saw a neurologist... he did an ekg and a cervical spine mri. he noticed some mild neuralgia in legs but he said that it is very likely that it wa caused by the chemotherapy i had been on previously... i also saw a internal pshysician who did an echocardiogram and told me i had no heart problems... finally everything just got real bad and i got this intense throat pain .... i went to the ent once again, he looked down my throat with this tube and told me i was really inflamed. he gave me some antibiotics and anti inflamatory.. my throat got better, but then i got a really intense cough... wheezing... i went to a pulmanologist , had a chest xray... came up clear... he gave some some more antibiotics and anti-inflamatory pills. anyways this is where i am at.. i am only getting worse... i feel like i am going to die and noone can tell me whats wrong.. help me
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A lot of people experience a worsening cough, and wheezing when they quit smoking. This is part of the process of your villi in your lungs trying to re-grow, and push out all the garbage left from smoking. As for everything else, which started sooner than that, you could try a rheumatologist to get checked for autoimune diseases, which are slightly more common among cancer survivors. You could also try an MRI with contrast if you havent had one. Get your thyroid checked too. It can cause all kinds of wierd symptoms, and again realize that you're at higher risk for all sorts of odd things after chemo (even more so if you had radiation).
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ooops, i forgot to add. i also get a real intense pain when i try to sing or say something loud. really strange... the pain is followed right after with the cough and wheezing... i guit smoking about a month ago.. i dont drink... dont do drugs....
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