Posts by analogrider13

Is there anything more frustrating than a massive winning streak getting snapped by a single mistake in the final inning? I feel like we were cruising until that last stretch, and now the momentum feels totally gone. Anyone else feeling pretty gutted about how that ended?

hiddenraven5 said:Look, I'm dealing with this mess and I've been depressed for a week... I'm 17... I smoked Marlboro Reds for two years, and then a few days ago I inhaled way too much and my right lung started killing me... I totally freaked out, thinking the worst, and quit smoking entirely. It's been 5 days since my last cigarette... but please, give me some advice: every single time I even catch a whiff of smoke, that part of my lung starts hurting again... could it actually be cancer??

My mom is a nurse, and I don't know if she's just trying to scare me, but she told me she's already seen three 19-year-olds come in with lung cancer... is that even possible?

I guess it's true that you don't realize how much life matters until something like this hits you....

Anyway.... I haven't smoked for 5 days, hasn't even touched a cigarette... but I just caught a bit of smoke and now that spot hurts again... is it seriously cancer or am I just overthinking this?

Please, I need advice, and spare me the "you're just a bratty kid" comments. I really don't need that right now... I don't want to have to tell my mom something like that when she's already stressed enough as it is...

Hey! So, pain in the chest or lungs can be caused by all sorts of things, like pleurisy, asthma, or even lung cancer. Like I said, pain is a symptom of cancer, but honestly, I doubt it's cancer here—if it were, the pain would be intense and there'd be tightness, and since you aren't smoking, you shouldn't panic unless you're super stressed or depressed about it. Just go get checked out: get a full blood panel, an X-ray, or maybe a bronchoscopy, and just look at the results! Don't sweat it too much because if it were cancer, that area would hurt even when you aren't smoking!