Hello,
To explain the situation briefly, over the last 4 months I have been having health problems. Mostly, I have throat soreness that comes and goes regularly (including white patches on tonsils that lasted nearly a month) and weird coloured urine sometimes, which I realised is probably blood. I went to various doctors about this, just to be given antibiotics (they always assumed it was tonsilitis in the case of my throat, and a UTI in the case of my weird urine colour) however, all urine cultures always came back clean.
Then, the last few weeks lymph nodes all over my body (groin, armpits, neck) have swollen up. At this point, I know I must be very ill, but the not knowing why is torture. I keep thinking I have bladder cancer or lymphoma or something, since everytime they do a bacteria test and it's clear, its just leaving worse and worse outcomes.
I went to the hospital today and they did full bloods, urine sample, chest and abdominal CT scan. I have to wait a week for the results, and the doctor mentioned doing a lymph node biopsy if the tests are not conclusive. Is it possible a CT scan could show if I had cancer in my bladder?
I don't really know what I'm asking here generally, maybe some reassurance or just to get it off my chest. I'm only 24 years old and up until 4 months ago I was healthy, so it's an incredibly scary situation to be right now. I'm at university abroad, and can't imagine what I would do if I find out it's cancer. I almost don't want to hear the results in case it's something I don't want to be told.
