Hey all :)
my stories long but I have swelling in my front of neck for some time, since March with several symptoms including such bad neck pain. Went to several GP appts all to say nothing's wrong with you but we will refer you anyway to ENT. ENT are suspended at the moment for non urgent and they didn't think I was urgent enough even tho the swelling was getting bigger. I called my GP nearly 3 weeks ago due to the nature of finding too small lumps and a hard part of muscle near the back of my neck / spine area on the right hand side and another hard lump the complete other side of my neck at the front. My parents opt'd a private appointment just to get seen for some advice as my GP wouldn't do anything. Bloods came back normal at GP and they were so fixated on that including the fact i didn't have possible lymphoma.
I had a amazing consultation privately he works for the NHS too and a really positive outcome about my lumps and swelling suggesting it could possibly be benign tumour and you are so young that age is in your favour with the big C however we need to rule out lymphoma and there's always a chance so he's booked an ultrasound and he warned me about a possible biopsy.
although this was extremely positive and reassuring he wasn't worried and no major warning signs I've had this for swelling for months and my neck pain is very persistent and getting worse and I also found another lump last night in my neck. I can't help but actually think the worst due to the nature of how my neck is changing I guess. I have an ultrasound in the next couple of weeks to hopefully find out what's going on but it'll almost be a relief to find out what's going on because I've been in limbo for four months taking a guess is it cancer is it not? You're being silly to think it could be cancer
unfortunately he ruled out cysts as how mine are presented they aren't so it's either cancer or non cancerous tumours.
my body does feel somethings not right and I've had a gut feeling for months so I wouldn't be surprised if it's the big C but I guess I'm keeping positive and hoping it's only benign. :))
