Hi Anita,

Thanks for reading my post, and replying. I apologize for any confusion. I’m confused myself. It all happened when my glands and lymph nodes became very swollen under my left jaw, the swelling seemed to be present all day. Very tender and painful. Doctor thought it was allergies, saw fluid in my left ear, said something about “temporal swelling” and put me on Allegra and Singulair. The swelling and pain still did not go away. One night, I was eating chicken, and felt something lodge in my throat. I coughed, put peanut butter on bread to try to dislodge it to no avail. I was still able to breath, but went to ER. When I was outside of ER, I had dry heaves and it dislodged whatever was in my throat.

My throat still hurt badly, and the ER doctor scared me asking me how long lymph nodes have been swollen. I said 4 months. He said “you need to follow up with your GP right away, I feel you have non-hodjkins lymphoma.” “Your spleen is enlarged, you have a solid nodule under the base of your skull and several solid nodes under your right armpit.” When they released me, they gave me paperwork, and it said “unexplained lymphoma”. (?)

My Doctor wrote an order for me to see a general surgeon for the lymph nodes under my right arm. That is scheduled for 28th of September. My case manager is taking me. I have lost over 34 pounds in 2 1/2 months. I have another appointment scheduled for a fine needle biopsy on October 12th, on two enlarged thyroid nodules. They are going to take 5 tissue samples from each nodule. I hope this clears things up a bit.

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