I have night sweats, SEVERE pain in my left ear basically 24/7, pain when I swallow, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes in left of neck, headache, neckache, a small mass on my left tonsil, and I've been spitting out blood (99% sure coming from my tonsil) for 8 weeks, currently the bleeding has progressed to the point that pretty much every time I go to the bathroom and spit to check, there is blood, if not every time then every other time. 2 weeks ago I didn't have the night sweats, the severe earache, the sore throat or the pain when I swallow.
Despite all of this I can't get a 2ww referral to see an ENT even though I've begged literally 9 GPs to do so, as they can't tell me what is wrong with me, but they also will not refer me. I lucked out and there was a cancellation so I saw an ENT today. I told her literally every symptom, every symptom that is a symptom of tonsil cancer... she did a laryngoscopy and was ready to let me leave. She didn't even check my lymph nodes though I said they had been swollen for weeks, I read on the Cancer Research UK website that would be something that happened and she didn't even do it, she wasn't going to do anything and just let me leave.
I nearly broke down (I am literally so done at this point), explained that noone is going to help me even with symptoms and even while I suffer, said that I had expected a biopsy or a CT scan, just literally something. I showed her the mass on my tonsil on my phone after she lazily looked in my mouth and said she couldn't see it (yes really), and agreed to a CT scan. I have no idea how long it will take but for all I know it could be 38 weeks (that was the original wait time I was given to see an ENT).
What do I do after the CT scan, since I've read that the *only* way to diagnose tonsil cancer is biopsy, and I'm *very* worried that if they don't see anything they will just brush me off like everyone else I've seen for the last 8 weeks has done. Is there a way to guarantee a biopsy, is there a way to make it clear that a biopsy should be done, what do I do if I'm just pawned off again? Going to my GP won't help, I've tried that, they do not care at all. I've been to A&E, unless I'm about to die they do not care at all... I literally feel like I'm dying, every day I get worse, but I can't get help through the methods I try and I don't know what else to do. I'm 32, I don't want to die.
