Hi everyone,
Just looking for a bit of advice about how to cope with my anxiety over this. In october last year I had an ear infection and noticed two lymph nodes on my neck had swollen (i'm pretty sure they came up during the infection, but they could have been there before). I went to a walk-in centre and was given medication for the ear infection, and told to see a gp in two weeks if the lymph nodes hadn't gone down, which I did. The doctor asked me about lymphoma related symptoms (weight loss, night sweats etc), none of which I have had. She said she wasn't too concerned but ordered a blood test to be on the safe side. Blood test came back fine, so I didn't think much of it, even though the nodes didn't go down.
Then about a week ago I had to take a covid test (no symptoms, I was just part of one of those studies where they randomly selected people to do a home test so they can measure levels of asymptomatic cases or whatever). When administering the swab I noticed that my tonsil on the same side as the swollen nodes had basically doubled in size, and is now way bigger than the other one. This is weird as I have had no pain (a tiny twinge in my throat but basically unnoticeable), and no other symptoms of tonsilitis or any kind of infection. I waited a few days to see if it would go down on its own (it didn't), then rang my gp this morning who wasn't very reassuring- said it sounded possibly abnormal and booked me in for an appointment on friday.
I am obviously pretty nervous that this could be some kind of cancer that has started in my lymph nodes and spread to my tonsil- I can't seem to find any other explanations for this issue? I know it's unlikely and there is probably a less scary explanation but I am struggling to rationalise my fears and I feel like I'm going to be super stressed waiting for this appointment. I'm also worried that once I see the gp it will take forever to see an ENT, and it will be a while until I know what's happening.
Has anyone else been in this situation? would appreciate any input :happy: