Hi,

I am writing on here to ask for some help and advice due to my symptoms and having recently been told about a booking for me to have a surgical biopsy done on my adenoids, palatine tonsils and lingual tonsils.

I have been suffering for over a year now with originally just a raised lump/lymph gland on the left side of my neck, but then I started suffering with shooting pain in my neck, which then got worse with severe sore throat, cough and aches in my throat and back of my tongue. I have also been struggling with swallowing at times, tasting blood in the back of my throat and feeling like there was something in my throat that was getting in the way but it wouldn't budge. More recently, alongside this horrendous pain and discomfort, I have started to experience bouts of tinnitus and a muffled sound/sensation in my left ear and I have also been suffering with vertigo and night sweats. I have had an US on my neck, which confirmed Level II raised lymph glands and then had a CT, which also confirmed this as well as having "prominent nasopharyngeal soft tissue and bilateral enlarged tonsils". After speaking to the ENT, he has referred for me to have an emergency biopsy on these two areas, with a possible tonsilectomy that will be decided at the time of the surgery. I am messaging on here, as I feel a bit unsure about what to expect and with the worry about what the results will be. I am very confused about how I am feeling, as part of me hopes they find the cause of all my pain and problems through this biopsy, no matter what the outcome so that I know what it is and can try to treat and stop it, and so I am not left still wondering and suffering with the unknown. But then, of course I don't want the problems and worries that come with a cancer diagnoses. So I wanted to message on here, to express my problems and worries, and to please ask for advice with how other people were when they went through similar situations, with the worry and the actual biopsy procedure. Any help or advice will be very much appreciated, thank you in advance!