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Urgent referral for lump on neck

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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. 

 

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    Hi.

    I've only recently posted myself and in a very similar situation as you except my doctor won't send me for a scan which I wish she would. I was reffered to breast clinic first because it was an underarm lymphnode then my neck lumps followed 2 weeks later and was reffered to a haematologist who wants me to watch and wait for another 3 months which I'm unhappy to do as I've already waited 3 months since it all started.

    If i was you I would call back your GP & make sure it has definetley has been sent as my GP sent me for a chest xray. I heard nothing 2 weeks later i phoned the hospital too tell them I still haven't relieved a letter to be told I wasn't on the system..phoned the doctors back & she had forgot to put it through

    I hope you get awnsers soon x

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    Sorry for not updating sooner, thank you all for your advice so far. I rang the hospital and they have got my referral, I am on the waiting list, but when I asked how long I could expect to wait the receptionist wouldn't tell me, just said that she'd note that I had chased it up. It's been three weeks of waiting now, and I've had more nodes come up on the right side, where the initial lump started, underneath my jaw. So just more waiting for now, but at least I know for sure i'm in the system, and have updated my phone number with them so I'll get a text about my appointment as well as a letter, as that was another thing I was worried about with the post being so terrible at the moment. 

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    Sorry for not updating sooner, thank you all for your advice so far. I rang the hospital and they have got my referral, I am on the waiting list, but when I asked how long I could expect to wait the receptionist wouldn't tell me, just said that she'd note that I had chased it up. It's been three weeks of waiting now, and I've had more nodes come up on the right side, where the initial lump started, underneath my jaw. So just more waiting for now, but at least I know for sure i'm in the system, and have updated my phone number with them so I'll get a text about my appointment as well as a letter, as that was another thing I was worried about with the post being so terrible at the moment. 

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