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Cancer or tuberculosis?
Why am I not yet dead? It is two years since the hospital physician diagnosed me with either lung cancer or tuberculosis. I looked at x-ray images of lung cancer and tuberculosis.
With that amount of "infiltrates" (the white stuff in chest radiographs), both my lung cancer or my tuberculosis would be far advanced.
In either case, the time from diagnosis to death should have been less than 2 years. But here I am, not even feeling sick except for a little cough. But I can go hours without coughing.
If some physician, or x-ray technician, reads this blog, I invite you to share your opinions with me. I won't construe it as a medical consultation by any stretch. The x-ray is again included here.
If this looks like advanced lung cancer or tuberculosis to you, mind you that I never had any hemoptysis (coughing of blood), and I don't have fever or night sweats.
As for my weight, I have real problems maintaining it... but not in the way you may spontaneously think. When I was diagnosed with either lung cancer or tuberculosis, my weight was a slender 69 kilograms (152 pounds), for a height of 180 cm (5.9 feet). That translates as a body mass index 21.3
Wasting would be an indication that my lung disease is tuberculosis. After all, the traditional name of tuberculosis is "consumption". And a loss of bodyweight is usually a bad sign.
But now, 2 years into my presumed tuberculosis, my weight is 81 kg (179 pounds) for a body mass index of 25.
I mentioned that I have a hard time maintaining my weight. But it's not that I would lose weight if I am not careful. I am struggling not to gain weight.
If I were to eat as much as it would take to satisfy my appetite, I would gain at least 1 kg (2.2 pounds) per week.
Now I ask you: what kind of tuberculosis could this be?
