Hi Kels, 

Welcome to the forum although I'm sorry to hear that you're dealing with the health concern at the moment. It's understandable that you're feeling terrified at the moment. 

We have quite a number of members here on the forum who have been in your position and I can see that you've been chatting with a couple of them. I'm tagging one of our lovely ladies, [@RadioactiveRaz]‍ into this post in the hope that she'll see it and reply with a few words of wisdom. :) 

Please try not to Google your symptoms. It won't give you any firm answers and only cause you to worry. Try to take each day at a time and keep busy between now and your appointment. 

If you think it would help for you to talk to one of our team of nurses then do give them a call. They're available Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm on 0808 800 4040. 

Keep in touch Kels and let us know how you get on. 

Best wishes, 
Jenn
Cancer Chat moderator

Hi Kels like Jen says please please keep,off dr Google. It’s automatic now in the n h s once you reach the main Alicante age of 40 the quickest way to be seen .like my dr said around 99% of urgent refferals are to rule  out  cancer not rule it in In my case lasypt May i was the 1% and tonsil cancer is 97% a male cancer especially if h p v 16+ positive which I was. So statistically I would have had more chance in winning the lottery so don’t worry. If yiu are like me there’s plenty of us on here to help.  But again if any consolation most if us on here with is haven’t had any pain just a swollen lymph node in the clavicle ie college bone area. 

Plus my oncologist said to me don’t please google as if iPhone did he could diagnose himself dead within minutes too many untried facts on the internet. 

Keep in touch 

Hazel

Thank you jenn 

Hi Kels

do sorry about your dad  my dad died with lung cancer n mum bowel cancer so I can relate to how you are feeling especially towards the end of life care. 

Let me know how your referral went msrnding hugs hazel x

Hello hazel,

ENT went well by all accounts the doctor had a look at both tonsils  looking in the mouth around the mouth checked for glands in the neck jaw head and found no problem, he did say that because the sensation is accompanied with ear discomfort that he wants to do a CT scan and I will get the appointment in the post.

My symptoms I'm normally always there occasionally I can forget about them but yet again I woke up this morning with a feeling that something about the size of a golf ball stuck in the side of my throat I can feel the pressure if I have my arm upnear my neck when laying in bed putting pressure probably on glands I can feel a difference even when turning my head left to right I could feel that just turning it to the right puts pressure inside my throat this to stop.

Now for another waiting game

Kels

Hi Kels

sounds positive to me I had no pain no throat problems at all just an enlarged lymph node which really didn’t think anything amiss. Just s thought my sister in law had something very similar and hers turned out to be silent reflux brought on by stress her mum my mum in law was dying of lung Cancer at the time she used to say a permanent feeling of a lump in her throat n earache ? Now on 40 mg of omaprozole sorted her. Not s medical opinion obv just passing a thought on 

sending hugs to your fsmily

hazel x

Thanks hazel ,

I do hope it's all turn out to be nothing and I know worrying about it like this will get me nowhere fast .

I will update after ct scan.

Thanks again .

Kels x

Hi Kels, hope you are well. I know it has been a while since your post but I was wondering how did your CT scan go and what was the findings? I too have very similar symptoms and now extremely nervous awaiitng MRI scan. Thank you