I have a lump on my left tonsil that has been there around a month. My lymph nodes have ballooned up on that side and are painful. The inside of my ear hurts. I saw the doctor about two weeks ago and she said "it's a virus" told me to wait for it to go away and had me in the room for all of one minute. I don't trust doctors at all.
I'm so scared, I can't think what else it can be.
I don't smoke, apart from having a few social cigarettes rarely. I drink but only what I'd call normal for a young person. I had the hpv vaccine when I was 14 and was told I couldn't catch hpv. Yet I was recently diagnosed with it. What the hell.
I'm so scared this is tonsil cancer caused by hpv.
I've gone on a bunch of cancer forums where people are describing symptoms similar to me and they say they were fobbed off 100s of times before insisting to be seen and then they were diagnosed.
I don't know what to do with myself, I don't even see the point in going back to my doctor, all she's ever done is fob me off.
I can't find any other explanations on the internet besides cancer :( It says this type of cancer is rising rapidly in young people due to hpv infections.
I am completely beside myself.
This is what it looks like