Hi, my name is Maya and I've been worried for a little while. I'm 16 and in June I found that there's a lump on my neck. I wasn't s worried as I had a lot of other stresses at the time and it wasn't on my mind much. However, as time went on I was constantly tired and my hair was falling. Again I put this to stress but my parents asked me to go to the doctor anyway. When I went my doctor (let's say dr. b) wasn't too concerned and said it was probably just an infection or something. He then said that it will be gone in 2 weeks. Dr.b usually makes me uncomfortable as I feel like he is constantly (no matter the issue) brushing me off and making me feel like I'm over-reacting (bc I have severe anxiety). I then made a new appointment with another doctor (DR.O) after it hadn't disappeared in 2 weeks and felt much more heard, I guess. HE felt around the lump (which dr. b hadn't done) and booked me in for a blood test. It came back positive for glandular fever and I was told it was gonna go in 6 weeks. Fast forward to August and nothing has changed except that i have also experienced..uhm... blood in my stool (may be unrelated but scary). Still tired and the lump is still there. I went back and requested Dr.O and he said he doesn't think its anything due to no unexpected weight loss (there was only a little weight loss but it was due to a constant lack of appetite and i was never weighed). But bc of my anxiety he understood that i needed reassurance and booked me in for an ultrasound. I had the ultrasound on my face and neck recently and the sonographer said that they weren't sure but it looks like a huge swollen lymph node and there was one under my jaw that I didn't know about. I was told to come back in December if it's still there and to call for another appointment if it gets bigger. The thing is I have no clue if it's getting bigger or I'm really overreacting like dr. b thinks I am. I've seen a lot of people talking about their experiences with lymphoma recently and how almost all of them were misdiagnosed due to their age and gender (being a female teenager I get a lot of female teenager content). This last week, I have been exhausted. I have never been this tired. I'm so tired that eating tires me out and I can't stop sleeping, no matter how long I've been asleep. And ik what you might think 'oh a tired teenager that's original' but I know my body and this isn't like me. In the past three days, all I could muster up the energy to eat was 4 cans of energy drink and a Lindor. I am tired beyond sleep (which I struggle to get anyways). I just wanted to post this to see if any people diagnosed with lymphoma have ever been in a similar position to mine and to see whether people think I'm overreacting or should keep pushing. Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this :)
