Should I be more optimistic?

I'm waiting for the results from my ct scan which I'm extremely scared about. I went and saw the hematologist about swollen axillary lymph nodes in my right armpit and he said he was not too concerned and that I looked healthy, but he would perform blood tests and a ct scan because of my weight loss. All of the blood tests have so far come back clear and nothing abnormal has shown up. I did however have a high eusophil count on my first full blood count. I'm scared this could be cancer and I can't sleep. They said that the ct scan is gonna take two weeks for results but if they spotted something serious do you think they would call me before? 

  • Hello there. It's normal to get a bit obsessed with how long results take, and what the timescale may mean. In the long run, it doesn't indicate much either way, from what I've seen.

    Do your best to practice relaxation techniques, Youtube is great for meditation/self hypnosis videos. Think about how you've dealt with stressful situations in the past. Do you like having a mad dance to music when nobody is watching? Or painting a picture? 

    Two weeks may seem like a lifetime just now. In the grand scheme of things, it's not that long. 

    regards, gamechanger

  • Hi only certain people can check out a ct scan properly and make sure they don't miss anything important. Lymph nodes can play up at any time some times they'll swell up for a few days and then go back down other times they might have a bit of infection it doesn't have to be cancer. Try to relax we're all a bit stressed on here good luck with results. 

    Billy 

  • I'm not a doctor myself, but I have a friend who's a retired GP.  He told me a couple of weeks ago that if you were to run enough blood tests on a healthy person, eventually you'll find a result that's too high or too low.  Run it a couple of months later and it's fine, but you'll probably find something else that's now too high or too low. 

    There are numerous reasons why your eosinophil level is high, including allergic and infectious responses, so it is very much jumping the gun to assume that it's cancer.