I wonder if somebody might be able to help.....
About 6 weeks ago a lump appeared on my left shoulder/neck. it is smooth feeling, and moves around under my skin. It feels to me to be about one and a half cm across it's width and length, but I can't tell how deep. I left it for a week, to see if it would go away, and went to the doctors when it didn't. She arranged an ultrsound scan. I had to wait for a little over four weeks, and in that time I looked on the internet a lot to see what it might be. Looking at pictures and reading what other people had written, I worked out that it might be a swollen supraclavicular lymph node. Obviously there are lots of causes of that. The area around the lump (although not the lump itself) has become uncumfortable, and sometimes a bit achy and tender. It is often more swollen around the lump, although the lump itself doesn't seem to have changed very much in the 6 weeks. I have a tight feeling across the front of my neck, and my neck generally looks and feels a little swollen. When I went for my scan, I was surprised to see "thyroid" on the screen next to my name. The radiologist told me that my lump looked like fatty tissue. It was a solid black oval shapeon the screen. She scanned the other side (right), and I saw on the screen a much smaller solid black oval shape in the same place. She changed the picture on the screen so that it was coloured, and she highlighted several red/yellow/orange patches on the left side that were pulsing. She looked at the front of my neck, too. I know that I need to wait for a doctor to look at the scan, and for my GP to speak to me, rather than take what the radiologist told me as the diagnosis. Does anybody know how different a lymph node and fatty tissue look on an ultrasound scan? Or what the pulsing bits mean? If it is a fatty thing, should I have the smaller one on the other side, too? I would appreciate any information. Thank you very much: Amanda