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Sharon
The 24 hour urine test isn't a pain - you just have to be home to catch all your urine and put it into the jug. Usually they start it around 2 pm so that at 2pm the next day, you go to the doctor or lab and drop off the jug and they take blood at the same time.
My mom has high blood pressure but it was easy to control with high blood pressure pills. Her potassium was very low because one of the medications was a diuretic. However, these can be symptoms of a functioning adrenal tumor or, in my mom's case, a coincidence.
If your mom's high blood pressure can't be controlled with medication, I would seriously consider the test. One of my mom's tumors "fades in and out" during the CT scans she's had on it (the smaller 8 mm one) because CT scans are just sliced xrays and then they are put back together to form the image. So, it depends on how they put the image back together and the small "nodules" can be harder to read (and the radialogist who read one particular CT scan actually said exactly that in the diagnostic verbage).
Anyway, the bottom line is that these are extremely rare to be a primary or met cancer.
Have a great weekend
Becky
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