I guess you could say I have what you would call "Fibro Fervor" or in other words ...Persistence! It has been a royal pain in the pinfeathers to all of my doctors I am sure because they especially have had to listen to my chronicles of chronic complaints for the last year over and over and some of them I do believe were starting to think I was nuts! You see, it all started when years ago doctors thought I had MS but then later after several MRI's of my beautiful brain decided that was not my disease! They then started throwing all kinds of other possibilities at me. Then two years ago I had my gallbladder removed! Ever since I have had one problem after the next. I have fractured my foot, found out I have Osteoporosis, Vitamin B-6 deficiency, Vitamin D deficiency, migraines, fibromyalgia, ulnar nerve damage in both arms, and on and on the list goes. The persistence or "Fibro Fervor" as I call it, comes in here..... I have had this chronic terrible pain up under my right ribcage ever since my gallbladder problem in 2009. I have told doctor after doctor. I have been told...you may have adhesions....maybe it is phantom gallbladder pain....maybe you have shingles...maybe it is in your head...(NO.....IT IS IN MY RIB CAGE!) I really was getting tired of telling all of my doctors about this chronic pain so I finally stopped mentioning it to them just recently. Then in April, I started having really bad chest pain that just didn't go away even when I rested so I went to the Dr once again. I noticed that this pain in my ribcage was getting to be more constant and severe however I decided I would just shut up about it this time since no one was listening about this anymore! My doctor decided to do a lung function test and I failed....hmmm. So then on to a chest x-ray, CT Scan and PET Scan. Very interesting! Well... the doctor discovered that in my right upper lobe of my lung there sits a good sized lung nodule that looks like cancer. I sure do wish they would have explored my complaining about my ribcage pain a bit sooner!! So I am telling you my Fibro friends....be persistent...because you know your own body! You alone know what and how you are feeling! Keep telling your doctor the same thing over and over until they do something about it! My doctor just looked me in the eye and said..."I just want you to know that at no time did I ever doubt you.... " HMMM. Anyway...now I am facing surgery on Friday of next week to remove this nodule. It is too embedded to just remove a small wedge of my lung so a whole lobe of my right lung must be removed in order to be sure they get it all in case it is cancer. Don't let your Doctor talk you out of your symptoms. I know they have done that to me. Be persistent if something is really an ongoing problem... make sure they investigate it!
