Lung Nodules?

[nicol612]

I had 10 noncalcified pulmonary nodules from 3-7mm show on a CT scan for something unrelated in Nov 08 when these were found. Since, CT scans revealed 2 more nodules in June 09 and now a whopping 15 nodules 3-7mm in size on my recent scan a week ago. Anyone have a take on what could be causing these? I am 32, non-smoker as of 6-09 and smoked for 23 yrs, since I was 9. the 3 newest nodules have come after I quit smoking. Drs tell me not to worry, yet cannot tell me the cause of these nodules or even what they are......Any suggestions? Im going crazy wondering.....

Thanks in advance!

[Julie20111]

I just read the FoxNews article about lung nodules, thanks for sharing the site Melody.  Helps calm my nerves.  And yes Antoit 5 years later and I still worry.
Darlingtondoll, so very sorry to hear what your dealing with.  I would think without a biopsy it is hard to say what your pulmonary nodules are.  Has the doctor talked to you about a biopsy?  I am praying that they are just negative lung nodules.  
As for me I am originally from the East Coast now livng on the West Coast.  I remember as a child I loved the smell of gasoline.  When my parents were putting gasoline in the vehicle I would go stand close to the nozzle so I could smell the gasoline.  Don't know if that may have affected my lungs since I never had a CT Scan until I was in my 50s.  
Hoping everyone is doing well. Hugs, Julie

[Darlingtondoll]

I had a stroke in my spinal cord (yes, very rare) in May of 2012.  Two weeks later, I had multiple pulmonary emboli in both lungs.  The CT scan also showed muliple pulmonary nodules (2 1/2 cm) at that time.  I had way too much on my plate to worry about the nodules.  I had become a paraplegic from the waist down and the ER doctor needed to know "my next of kin" because he said that I had a 75% chance of dying from the emboli.  A year later, I had a follow-up CT scan of my lungs and the nodules had grown to 3 cm.  Since late last fall, I have had a cough that won't go away.  I just had another CT and will get the results in 3 weeks.  It looks like a lot of people on this forum have had non cancerous nodules.  I can't take any more bad news. I had a small cerebral stroke a few months ago and am disabled.  I just want to LIVE and am not ready to die,  Yesterday my urologist set me up for a CT of my kidneys because of bleeding.  Jeez!  Thank heaven I usually have a positive attude, but now I am starting to get blue from all the bad news.

[Melody_gs]

Your very welcome. Fox News is not a medical board. Such articles make me kinda relieved but don't stop my worrying:( I keep praying that we will hear the good news in 3 months. Julie, where are you from? Another article I read said that nodules are extremely common among people from the Midwest.

[antoit]

Thanks Melody for sharing this. :)
This makes me happy for 2 reasons: The first is that they compare them to the moles as i did (LOL)...and the second, which is the most important one, is that such a topic has been treated on fox.com which, as far as i know, is not a medical board...right? This makes me think that this issue of lung nodules is a common one even more...These kind of websites do not treat topics which  are not of wide interest....do they? Whats your opinion on this?

Hugs from Rome!

Anto

[Melody_gs]

http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/07/27/lung-spots-less-dangerous-than-patients-think/ is the link to the article

[antoit]

What do you mean by false negative Julie?
Do you mean a wrong pathology report from the biopsy?

If your nodules have been stable over the last 5 years there's no chance, based of current knowledges, that they might be malignant.
We don't need to wait even 5 years for that...2 or 3 years are more than enough as for the what oncology science knows nowadays there's no abnormal cell that stays stable for more than 2 years.

I think we should look at these nodules as moles on our body...everyone has some and in some cases they can become malignant...If a mole is stable over the years there's little chance that that mole would become a melanoma ( skin cancer).

Oncology is not an exact science...That is for sure...but the diagnostic processes in oncology are quite advanced and there is a full or nearly full understanding of what is malignant and what is not...