Hi,
About 3 years ago I started having random strange high fevers and was not sleeping well. When i went to the dentist, he told me that I might have swollen adnoids that were causing me not to be able to sleep. He refered me to an ear, nose, throat dr. When i got there, the doctor noticed a lymphnode on my neck. It was about the size of a brazil nut(one of those large nuts). I was not alarmed because it had been there for a good while and did not hurt. This obviously sent off some red flags for him because he refered me to another dr. to have it checked out. I was put on at least a month of antibiotics to see if it would go away but it never did. I went to several other dr.s . Many did not know anything about it. I even had one lady tell me that it was not a lymphnode at all that it was just a blood vessel. Well, i knew that it was a lymph node so I went to one more dr.
THis doctor sent me to get a biopsy by needle aspiration. Whatever they pulled out came up inconclusive because there was too much fluid? or something. So i was sent to get an MRI of the node and they put some liquid into my blood to help distiguish the node. Well, when i got the results, it did not show that anything was there.
This was strange but it also happened when I had my appendex removed. The MRI showed that the appendex was not inflamed, when it actually was.
The doctor said that the only thing that we could do would be to remove the entire lymph node. So in january 2004 I had the entire node removed. The Dr. concluded that it was actually a node but he says it was not cancerous.
I did not ask anymore questions. i was really miserable from the surgery for about a month because of a tiny infection and my parents did not delve into it anymore.
Now, looking back, I wish I had gotten the node that he removed. I wish that I had asked more questions. He never even told me what made it large. Anyways, I was wondering if the people that have lymphoma were diagnosed immediately after the removal of the lymphnode? I heard on other message boards about how people had to send their lymph node to several doctors before they actually confirmed that they had lymphoma and that many doctors can miss the cells that tell them that they have cancer. I might be a little overly concerned. My other question is about the time span for lymphoma. If I have not had any other symptoms for a few years does that mean I do not have cancer? Wouldnt I have seen other symptoms?
My final question is kind of random but I was wondering if anyone has heard of a connection between an abnormal chromosome 1 and lymphoma? I
THanks for reading!! Any info would be greatly appriciated!