Dear Eliana:

It reads to me then that you were not diagnosed with (any type of) lymphoma. The concerning symptoms that you indicated are swollen glands and lymph nodes under your left jaw for four months, a swelling that did not get resolved with anti allergy medications. In addition, you lost 34 pounds. Your ER doctor told you that he found an enlarged spleen and a solid nodule and several solid nodes that concerned him.

Wikipedia lists fever as one of the symptoms. You didn’t mention fever. I am assuming you didn’t experience it because I can’t imagine forgetting to mention such a distressing symptom. You also didn’t mention if the lumps are itchy, red or purple, which is what they commonly feel and look like in non-Hodgkin lymphoma, according to Wikipedia.

When the ER doctor told you: “I feel you have non-hodjkins lymphoma”- that reads so very irresponsible of him to state. A medical doctor should not …”feel” that a patient has this or that disease, he should rely on evidence, not on a feeling. He suggested you suffer from a possibly deadly disease based on a feeling and very little evidence, without and before testing, and before precluding other possibilities.

This reads very suspicious to me. Perhaps this is a very incompetent doctor.

anita