My father has been coughing up a grayish
black sputum or phlem for the last year I
guess. He has a few other things going on
as well such as tremors of the hands and
head (which he has had for years but
slowly getting worse), weight loss, loss
of appetite, he has trouble sleeping,
extreme night sweats, and trouble cooling
off after his body temp has been raised.
He recently went to the Dr. And they did
a chest x-ray and they told him that they
saw scarring on the right lung, he went to
the Dr. About a year ago about the phlem
prob. And they did an x-ray at that time
too and it was normal so this scarring
apparently occured in the past year. My
first question is are these symptoms of
lung cancer? What could have caused the
scarring on the lung? The Dr. Had asked
if he had pnuemonia in the past but he
didnt think so and he definantly hasnt in
the past year. I know that a lot of his
symptoms are that of hyperthyroidism, I
was also wondering if the thyroid is
affected by lung cancer? He is supposed
to get the results of his blood work and a
radiologist is supposed to look closer at
the x-ray of the scarring. They are
supposed to get back to him early this
week coming. I am just very worried about
him
. If
anyone knows the answers to any of my
questions I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you so much. God bless!
