Allidee
22-03-15, 15:09
Hi! This is my first post on these boards, although I've been reading them over for a bit now.
To start off, I'm a 24 year old female. A bit overweight, smoker of a pack a week for two years (haven't smoked for 4 months now) but relatively healthy from what tests I received. Also have always had bad anxiety and depression, but my health anxiety has only seemed to manifest itself until recently.
So about 3 weeks ago I had the feeling of a lump in my throat and I was freaking out. I made an appointment with my doctor that day and she checked me for swollen lymphnodes and my nose throat etc. Her diagnosis was that my left tonsil was slightly swollen and I had post nasal drip. She prescribed me steroids and I was on my way. After taking the steroids I developed very bad pelvic/ lower abdominal pain. Was prescribed antibiotics twice and also had two fun visits to the ER. At the ER I received multiple blood test, urine tests, an EKG, pelvic exam, ct scan of the abdomen, and ultrasound of the pelvis and abdomen. Everything came back normal except for a burst cyst in my right ovary. All of this is fairly irrelevant to what I'm experiencing now but I just wanted to get the whole story out.
As soon as my lower andominal pain started to subside, I began to notice the lump feeling in my neck again. I started feeling around and noticed a lump on the left side of my neck under my jaw towards the back of it. This lump can only be felt when I touch my chin to my chest, it sort of pops out from under and it is highly mobile so it slips back in very easily. It isn't painful and feels hard and is probably about 2cm x 1cm, oval shaped. I noticed this about a week ago and immediately made an appointment with my dr. She gave me a ENT check and said she couldn't feel any lumps and referred me to a psychiatrist. This past Friday I decided to go back because I felt as if the lump was getting bigger and I wanted to try to point it out to her better. Again she couldn't feel it and recommended if I'm worried to make an ultrasound appointment so I got a referral for that. I wasn't able to get an appointment until next Monday the 30th so you'd imagine that I'm going to go nuts until then. Also yesterday I noticed an ulcer on the inside of my lower lip.
It isn't completely unlikely for me to get mouth ulcers, maybe two times a year, usually in that same area. Also I've been incredibly stressed these past three weeks so I'm wondering if that could contribute. But of course I go to googling and everything just screams MOUTH CANCER at me. So at this point I'm terrified and would appreciate any feedback anyone could give me. :(
Thank you all,
Alli
To start off, I'm a 24 year old female. A bit overweight, smoker of a pack a week for two years (haven't smoked for 4 months now) but relatively healthy from what tests I received. Also have always had bad anxiety and depression, but my health anxiety has only seemed to manifest itself until recently.
So about 3 weeks ago I had the feeling of a lump in my throat and I was freaking out. I made an appointment with my doctor that day and she checked me for swollen lymphnodes and my nose throat etc. Her diagnosis was that my left tonsil was slightly swollen and I had post nasal drip. She prescribed me steroids and I was on my way. After taking the steroids I developed very bad pelvic/ lower abdominal pain. Was prescribed antibiotics twice and also had two fun visits to the ER. At the ER I received multiple blood test, urine tests, an EKG, pelvic exam, ct scan of the abdomen, and ultrasound of the pelvis and abdomen. Everything came back normal except for a burst cyst in my right ovary. All of this is fairly irrelevant to what I'm experiencing now but I just wanted to get the whole story out.
As soon as my lower andominal pain started to subside, I began to notice the lump feeling in my neck again. I started feeling around and noticed a lump on the left side of my neck under my jaw towards the back of it. This lump can only be felt when I touch my chin to my chest, it sort of pops out from under and it is highly mobile so it slips back in very easily. It isn't painful and feels hard and is probably about 2cm x 1cm, oval shaped. I noticed this about a week ago and immediately made an appointment with my dr. She gave me a ENT check and said she couldn't feel any lumps and referred me to a psychiatrist. This past Friday I decided to go back because I felt as if the lump was getting bigger and I wanted to try to point it out to her better. Again she couldn't feel it and recommended if I'm worried to make an ultrasound appointment so I got a referral for that. I wasn't able to get an appointment until next Monday the 30th so you'd imagine that I'm going to go nuts until then. Also yesterday I noticed an ulcer on the inside of my lower lip.
It isn't completely unlikely for me to get mouth ulcers, maybe two times a year, usually in that same area. Also I've been incredibly stressed these past three weeks so I'm wondering if that could contribute. But of course I go to googling and everything just screams MOUTH CANCER at me. So at this point I'm terrified and would appreciate any feedback anyone could give me. :(
Thank you all,
Alli