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Carolyns,
I'm in marker hell myself today and can sympathize with your great anxiety. I asked to have my Bayer test run last week (six months since last) and called today to ask for result (I've been tossing and turning in my sleep since I decided to ask for the test). My oncologist's nurse said 'one minute' and left me sitting on the phone for quite a while. Then she told me the result was still "pending." I didn't believe her, was sure she was lying, that my marker had gone up. I then called my chemo nurse (we get along great) and she looked it up and sure enough it's says "pending." Of course, now I'm wondering why it could be pending after eight days and wonder if I hit some stratospheric number and the lab is rerunning the test.
Yet, I've been told by my oncologist many times that the marker numbers are highly unreliable--any type of infection can send them up or a benign condition that needs to be addressed but is not cancer, perhaps even stress. And the headache can be anything, including stress since you knew you were due for a scan. Or it might even be something so simple as the need for glasses or a stronger lens. I know it's hard to do, but try not to think about it! Better said than done, I know!
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