Hi everyone,

I will try to sum it all up, I have been having very suspicious symptoms for about 9 months now. It started with feeling suddenly really tired and some bone pain but just sort of in my knees and elbows and occasional rib pain, but at the time I put it down to doing too much at the gym. Then I started to get swollen lymph glands in my neck and groin , I tried to convince myself I had overdone it with exercise, or that it was just some inflammation or a little infection or something as my glands always swell up if I'm run down and it was winter (a very wet grey one!) etc. But I had also lost my appetite quite a bit since the early autumn and had lost at least a couple of kilos out of nowhere, I put it down to not eating enough calories and going to the gym a lot or maybe my body not absorbing my food enough (malabsorption)  

Then I finally decided to see a doctor at the start of febuary, as I had started to get constant pain in shoulders and other bone pain and  still had swollen lymph nodes and had starting getting this aching pain in them occasionally and still very tired. Had a FBC count and he said my WBC were a little low and iron levels low but nothing to worry about, told me to uptake my iron. I wanted to believe him nothing was wrong so I carried on, even with all these symptoms. Then Because of the pandemic suddenly I wasn't able to go see him until very recently, I am still having all these symptoms, constant pain either a sharp pain or a dull aching in my neck/armpit/groin lymph areas andbeither in my head or ears or shoulders or back or ribs, this morning in the sole of my foot! I've had another full blood count and other blood tests and he says that it's all normal and definitly nothing sinister. I  also had a chest X-ray done and I'm still waiting on the results of that. But he is convinced that it's not lymphoma because he would know if it was suspected by the blood tests he's done but I just don't believe him. He is going to refer me to a specialist for all the bone pain I think. But I just don't know what to do. I'm so afraid and convinced it's lymphoma but I want to believe my doctor and trust him too. Any reassurance or advice would really be appreciated. Thanks so much if you've taken the time to read this!!