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ajk
28-10-06, 19:00
Hi I'm new to the site. I've been googling symptoms for throat cancer and I can pretty much tick all the boxes. I have this white spot at the back of my throat on the right hand side near my tonsils - its been there for three weeks and has affected my ear and neck and I have felt generally unwell and feeble. I smoked for many years and successfully gave up after (three years of trying) in March of this year. I have anxiety and guilt issues around the smoking so to me every sore throat or cold is the start of some smoking related cancer. This time though I feel really scared. I have suffered panic attacks in the past, again over illness issues and now feel in an anxious and fearful state ever since seeing my doctor yesterday when she saw the lump. I have been prescribed antibiotics and told its too early to worry about anything and to come back next week. I am just so fed up with feeling poorly and fed up with feeling frightened and tense. I just want to try and get on with life feeling secure and unafraid. I feel such a fool trying to explain how I feel to people and my doctor. I am so glad I found this site. Thanks for reading this. Any advice welcome. Love Alison K

net
28-10-06, 19:03
i get a white spot sometimes on both sides everytime i get tonsilitis

netty


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Wannabeloved85
28-10-06, 19:21
white spots, yep, sounds like tonsilitis. go to your dr, he'll prob prescribe anti biotics or something.

Becci x

ajk
28-10-06, 21:19
thanks Netty and Becci - sometimes you just need a little reassurance! Love Alison K

honeybee3939
28-10-06, 22:39
Hi Alison,

A BIG warm welcome to you, lovely to see you here, im sure you will get some great advice here and make new friends on the way.

A BIG well done to you for stopping smoking ! My advice to you is please DONT google, i used to do it alot and it certainly dosnt help, Gosh i used to have every illness going!!!!

I read the joke pages now, much more entertaining !

Your in good company here Alison, glad you found us.

Love

Andrea
xxxx

yorkylover
28-10-06, 22:53
Hi Alison and welcome to the site.it does sound like tonsiliitis.You really shouldnt google.it will make you more anxious.There are so many illnesses with very similar symptoms.Take it from someone who knows.I used to look at medical books and this is where alot of my problems started from.
Take care;)

Ellen XX

ajk
29-10-06, 16:58
hey this is just great thank you for all your answers and advice. I started up my PC just now to look up the symptoms on google again - But I came here instead. I'm so glad I did, thank you. Love Alison

yorkylover
29-10-06, 17:19
Well done for not googling and coming here instead.[^][^][^].
You will get better advise here.
take care

Ellen XX

nomorepanic
29-10-06, 18:45
Hi Alison

Welcome aboard and lovely to see you here. Hope we can be of some help.

You will meet some lovely people here.

People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel

Nicola

ajk
03-11-06, 03:54
me again - really scared. THe white spot on the back of my thorat has not responded to anti biotics. My Doctor is aware of my health anxieties and is sending me to a specialist to "rule out cancer". She thinks it looks like a cyst and is propbably nothing to worry about but she says she has to do this because I have left her no choice because I am so anxious about it and my mind needs to be put at rest. The other symptoms I have with this "spot" are worrying me - I've been googling and I am so ridden with anxiety that I can't tell if what I'm feeling are real or imagined symptoms. I can't sleep tonight for worrying about everything and I just don't know how I am going to get to 5pm on Tuesday when my appointment is. Does my Doctor know more than she's letting on or is she really trying to put my mind at rest?. People keep telling me I look really poorly - hell I feel really poorly - and this is not helping. And now my partner has just told me that he will be out of the country for a week when this happens. I am so sacred and imagining the worst possible outcome. Anyone got any ideas on how i can through this? Thanks and love Alison

debstar
03-11-06, 06:44
Hi Alison,

Could you please describe your symtoms a bit more to me please.

Have you been tested for glandular fever as this causes white spots and will not react to anti-biotics?

Deb

ajk
03-11-06, 09:09
Hi Deb thanks for replying - I did get to sleep eventually but now I have to go to work.

I had a cold and sore throat about six weeks ago which I recovered from although I felt really congested for some weeks afterwards then mid October I noticed a tickle at the back of my throat on the right hand side and my ear felt stuffy. I saw a nurse who said I had an ear infection and prescribed ear drops. She said I had a red patch in my throat gargle with aspirin - which I did. However I had seen the white spo near my tonsils and I know tonsils get white spots so I didn't worry too much but I did ask her if Ihad any lumps in my throat and she said no. Then after nearly two weeks of feeling utterly wretched and poorly with a stuffy tingly right ear and a pain in my neck I think where my glands are I saw a doctor. She said I didn't have an ear infection but a white spot at the back of my throat - I immediately responded with "this is gong to frighten me I have health anxieties about cancer because I used to smoke". I have had no other tests I have been stupidly googling symptoms for throat cancer and can say I've got all of them - I am in a high state of anxiety -so much so I booked myself in privately to see an ENT consultant on Tuesday at 5pm - my doctor was going to refer me to a consultant to "rule out Cancer" but it would take two weeks to come through and I couldn't live with that wait and I am now terrified about what the appointment with the consultant on Tuesday will reveal - even though this is I suppose what I wanted!. Thanks and Love to you Deb

Allie
03-11-06, 20:22
Hello and welcome!

Well done for not googling! I've been guilty of doing that in the past for lung disease/madness and even dementia (I'm nearly 22 so i don't need to point out the stupidity in that) but I resist the urge now!

It sounds as though you have had a bout of tonsilitits. i suffered with that alot. White spots are normal. Ironically, i used to find having a white spot on my tonsil quite reassuring as I used to believe that a tickly sore throat meant choking was just around the corner. When the white spot appeared I knew it was just tonsilitis again, but everyone's anxiety is different! Hehe!

Take care!

Alison P xXx



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ajk
08-11-06, 17:24
Hi everyone - I just thought I'd let you know that the white spot on back of my throat is a common or garden cyst. My consultant says he sees them everyday and there is nothing to worry about. I have spent something like three weeks in a high state of anxiety thinking that I had throat cancer and making things worse through self diagnosing by googling symptoms - I would read something - then get the symptoms. It's amazing what the mind can do

I looked in the mirror today and saw my face worn out with anxiety and cares and I wonder where it was that I lost myself in so much fear and why I do this to myself.

With love to you all and thanks for your support Alison

nomorepanic
08-11-06, 18:05
Alison

Glad you got it sorted in the end and got to the bottom of it all.

So will the cyst go away on its own then?

Nicola

People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel

Lousy Hero
09-11-06, 21:54
Hey Alison.

Yeah my biggest advice is never to google any symptoms for illness. Ive done it in the past and its never a good thing to do because the results are generic and vauge and if people are looking for answers (especially with illness) its instingtive to jump to conclusions which is always a bad idea. but hey, we all do it, its natural.

I agree with others, it is most likely tonsilitus and if your GP thought it was anything more you would have been referred to a specialist immediately. Its a positive sign that you've been put on anti biotics because if your Doctor had any real genuine consern for your welbeing he would have referred you to a specialist. But he/she hasnt, which is great :D

Everything will be fine :)

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dlou84
20-07-07, 17:55
Hey, I've had tonsilitis for about 4 months now and its still not gone had bloods done swabs 6 courses of antibiotics and still nothing. I dont want them removed due to my A and PAs...

My parents go away tomorrow for a week on holiday and Im dredding being alone :(:(:( I cant take it by myself :(

I think that Im going to die from something related to the tonsilitis and ahving it for so long. and not sleeping.

and that you can get these other deiseses from tonsilitis too

I dunno what to do and need help :(

Lindalou64
20-07-07, 21:34
hello alison,im glad ya got some answers, i was gonna ask if they took a swab to see if it was strep throat which is common with a cold and can last for awile.see not too worry.wish ya the best.....Linda

nomorepanic
20-07-07, 21:46
PLEASE NOTE - this is an old post.

SharonDerby
21-07-07, 23:14
Hi Alison
I have suffered like many of the others have too with health anxiety, but that's what this is i'm sure, sounds to me like tonsilitis, i have had it 4 or 5 times with white spots at the back of my throat and ones that have got bigger over days, don't google .......GARGLE get some honey and a frsh lemon and gargle.........google won't make you feel better but i bet the honey and lemon will help.
Try to trust your doctor i'm sure she is trying to put your mind at rest

Love Sharon :)

Pink Princess
27-07-07, 18:58
hey welcome to the site, hope you settle in and chat soon, take kare xxxxxxx