Hi everyone,
Like a lot of people who post here I am just really after some advice and some words of wisdom from people who have been/currently going through something similar rather then scaring myself half to death through Google.
About 10 weeks ago I noticed a large lump on the side of my neck, it's visible when I look in the mirror. I left it for a couple of weeks as I know lymph nodes can often swell, went to the docs about 8 weeks ago now, he said it felt like a lymph node, nothing to worry about unless it didn't go away after 8 weeks. Well it didn't go away, so he sent me for blood tests that all came back normal. By this point I had another three lumps come up, one on the same side just below my ear, another on the opposite side just below my jawline and the fourth just above my collarbone on the same side.
My doctor decided to send me for an urgent ultrasound referral, which I have read should take about two weeks normally, but I don't know if this is the case at the moment due to everything with Covid. Anyway, I'm concerned as it will be two weeks ago that I saw him this Friday and I have yet to have a letter from the hospital. Is this normal? Do I need to ring my surgery and make sure the referral has gone through, or should I just try and be a bit more patient? I don't want to be harrassing them as I know they're busy, when it's just a case of I need to wait a bit longer.
