The problems I am having with throat/neck are getting worse, and I am getting more and more worried. My neck feels really tight when I look up, to the point where I can't look up for more than a few seconds. And when I say 'look up', I don't necessarily mean up to the ceiling. I was watching a TV today which was up on the wall and even looking slightly up at that was causing me problems (especially when leaning forward). Also in the past few days I am getting a sharp knot pain on my adam's apple, kind of like somebody is squeezing it.
Also, there is something not right about this lump which I have already mentioned. It basically feels like a 2nd adams apple to the right of my proper one. I can see my actual adams apple move when I swallow and that is in the centre of my neck, so this lump is not that. Like I say it feels hard like my adams apple, but just to the right of it. Also before somebody says its normal, it's funny that the lump sensation/pain when I swallow is JUST on my right side, exactly where this lump is. This shows the lump is causing this. And I do not buy this explanation about it being anxiety, because the sore throat on my right side started FIRST, and THEN I felt this lump when examining my throat. So it's not like I felt this lump and then started getting pain in my throat. Plus I am sure that this lump is getting bigger (not too noticeable but it does feel like it has gone further along my neck in the past couple of months). Also, before people say this lump isn't a problem and that I am worrying about nothing, remember that I went to my GP about this lump last year and he said it wasn't a problem. It was only when I went back in January of this year that my GP admitted the lump had GROWN, and sent me to a specialist. So how is this me being paranoid when my GP even admitted that the lump had grown, as well as other people that I showed it to.
I know I had the camera down my throat and also the ultrasound, but I still have doubts. I mean, while the camera would show throat cancer, it wouldn't pick up something such as thyroid cancer. To be honest I was never that worried about cancer of the throat anyway because I can still breathe, eat, and drink ok. It is something such as thyroid cancer that most worries me. I know you're all going to say that the ultrasound would pick up thyroid cancer, but I have read a couple of people say they had an ultrasound or CT scan which showed nothing, but cancer was later found.
I really want a biopsy but I have no chance of getting anything should I go back to the doctors.
To the people who say I have anxiety, could you just try to answer this question: Why are the lump sensation/pain problems I am having all coming down my right side, where this lump is? This surely shows that the lump is causing the problems. Plus when I look over my left shoulder I can feel this lump pressing against the right of my neck, which isn't normal.
Plus I have been diagnosed with acid reflux but I cannot see how this can be the problem. First of all I am not suffering from belching or anything like that, plus, like I say, acid reflux would not cause a physical lump.
I cannot get this wrong because this is my whole life on the line. I cannot leave it because 'the camera would probably have seen something' or 'the ultrasound would more than likely have picked it up' or 'cancer is rare in young people'.
I have always been quite a laid back but this problem in the past few months has ruined me and I don't know how much more or this I can take.