ballerina
23-06-18, 21:48
Need some support as I'm majorly freaking out. Haven't stopped crying all day.
Been having issues with ongoing malaise and throat problems. I've also had a rock solid lump under my left ear.
I'm off work again, I got sick and went off work for 2 months, went back for 4 months, not feeling fab but well enough. A week ago I suddenly felt very ill again and I've been off since. I'm due on a holiday flying to the other side of the world in a week's time and I'm a complete mess. I haven't felt this depressed in a while. However I've rerequested my prescription for prozac that I haven't taken in months, can't get it until Monday due to the weekend.
Not only has that got my anxiety up the wall, I began thinking about this mass under my ear. When I had my ultrasound (scanning my lymph nodes as they'd been up a while), I asked about under my left ear and she said "oh it appears to be your parotid gland". Now since I've been researching and nowhere does it say feeling a hard lump under your ear is a normal parotid gland, they're supposed to not be palpable, everywhere says it's a parotid gland tumour and it seems to fit the bill. It's under my left ear which is the one I use to talk on the phone and studies have shown increased tumours due to mobiles - maybe a long shot but it adds to my concerns.
I'm not even all that concerned that it's malignant as it doesn't seem to have grown, it just popped up. But I know you can get facial paralysis removing a benign tumour. Would an ultrasound show a tumour as well as the gland? Could they have missed it? Or do you need a different type of imaging such as CT to see a tumour?
Been having issues with ongoing malaise and throat problems. I've also had a rock solid lump under my left ear.
I'm off work again, I got sick and went off work for 2 months, went back for 4 months, not feeling fab but well enough. A week ago I suddenly felt very ill again and I've been off since. I'm due on a holiday flying to the other side of the world in a week's time and I'm a complete mess. I haven't felt this depressed in a while. However I've rerequested my prescription for prozac that I haven't taken in months, can't get it until Monday due to the weekend.
Not only has that got my anxiety up the wall, I began thinking about this mass under my ear. When I had my ultrasound (scanning my lymph nodes as they'd been up a while), I asked about under my left ear and she said "oh it appears to be your parotid gland". Now since I've been researching and nowhere does it say feeling a hard lump under your ear is a normal parotid gland, they're supposed to not be palpable, everywhere says it's a parotid gland tumour and it seems to fit the bill. It's under my left ear which is the one I use to talk on the phone and studies have shown increased tumours due to mobiles - maybe a long shot but it adds to my concerns.
I'm not even all that concerned that it's malignant as it doesn't seem to have grown, it just popped up. But I know you can get facial paralysis removing a benign tumour. Would an ultrasound show a tumour as well as the gland? Could they have missed it? Or do you need a different type of imaging such as CT to see a tumour?