Is it Time to Visit Leukemia Specialist?

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When you are feeling unwell in anyway and visit your doctor, the doc will prescribe a course of treatment and wait for you to respond positively to antibiotics. If you don’t and in the mean time your doctor notices certain other symptoms, he/she will refer you to a specialist. The symptoms or causes that the doctor notices can be one or more from these;

(i) Tiredness, breathlessness, bleeding, repeated infections, bruises etc.

(ii) Doctor refers you to a specialist if you are above 65 and they notice similar symptoms. A person under 60 can also be affected with Acute Leukemia but most cases have been observed where the patient was above 60-65.

(iii) If you’ve had a history of radiation or chemotherapy and you are feeling or showing the symptoms, its time to visit Leukemia Specialist.

(iv) If you or your doctor notices a growth in lymph, armpit or neck it’s time to visit Leukemia Specialist.

(v) If you or your doctor notices an enlarged liver or spleen its time to visit Leukemia Specialist.

(vi) If your doctor observes repeated complaints about any of these symptoms he is likely prescribe medicine course, take tests and then suggest you to visit Leukemia Specialist. These are not alarming signs that need to be attended to immediately but if they persist then second level observations should start.

Prescribing medicines and waiting for the antibiotic to respond is the first normal stage. Second stage is advising blood tests, scans and X-Rays. Symptoms like fatigue, weight loss, sweating at night, itching sensation in the body, breathlessness, pain the stomach, bleeding, growth of glands, swellings are symptoms which doctors look for before suggesting specialist advice.

You should always keep in mind that existence of above symptoms individually or in combination of others doesn’t necessarily lead to only Leukemia. You may be suffering from everyday simpler ailments also. But if you feel that your doctor is not paying attention that he should you should seek 2nd opinion.

It’s our body and even if we are not able to explain the exact situation we are the best guards of our body. We know when something is wrong. If not then we should learn to develop this awareness in our body. It’s very important for every individual to learn to be aware of one’s body.