So... sorry this is basically me venting, and trying my damn hardest not to panic. But I'm freaking out over a symptom and searching for others with the same for the sake of reassurance. As usual.
I know my right tonsil is enlarged, which for all I know has been there months and I'm getting a sharp pain somewhere between that and where the ear canal meets the throat. Not sure of my biology there, but it's around about that area. It's not sore like a sore throat: it's hard and painful, and there's usually a headache around the ear area to go along with it.
Naturally the dreaded C word pops into my mind. I didn't even have to google it this time (actually, as soon as I realized I was thinking these thoughts, I came straight here instead of heading to google, read my correspondences with some of your lovely members who had calmed me down before, and tried to avoid google altogether. Baby steps?)
I don't get allergies. The pain, thinking on it, has been coming and going on and off for months, I've just been fighting to ignore it because I don't want to go through all of this anxiety again.
I feel pretty bad about this actually, because I still felt the need to answer the scared little 'what if's' in my head, even after reading everyone's useful comments and messages, not to mention all that CBT.
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