LMTU,


Go To the Doctor!, I let my lump in my tongue go for a year! Then it spread to my lyphnnode then I went to the dr. Thanks to that I had to have to surgeries and RT. If I had just went in the beginning may have just been one surgery and no rt. So the longer you wait the worse it could be or may not be! Never know till you go!

Sorry to be so blunt,but anyone tells me they have a problem I tell them to get it checked. SO I am telling you get it checked out!

Keep us posted,

Pam C.

Thanks for your info Mum and Noreen.

I'm not at this time living in the Uk, so its not so easy for me to get a good doctor to look at my problem, but I am working on it and thats not to say there is no good doctors here.

As I am now work Teaching in Thailand where they have some of the best Hospitals in the world, but I have minimum Health Insurence and have to pick the right hospital to be treated in.

So just not making excuses, Im being realistic with the problems I find my self in.

Once again guys, thanks so much for your kind words and yes I do know I have to urgently see a specialist Doctor asap

Kindest regards

LMTU

Hi there,

I know Thailand well and as a reall hypochondriac have spent a great deal of time in Bumrumgrad having consultations and health checks. If I remember rightly, an initial consulation with a consultant is relatively cheap under 500 bhat. I suggest you go for an initial consulation with an ENT specialist and if they think there is real cause for concern you could come back to the UK for more tests on the NHS. If they say its nothing to worry about you can carry on with teaching.

Oh I almost forgot - a question for Tony: is having a bad cold before diagnosis associated with HPV?

Yes I intect to go there or there sister hospital but they close at 4pm so its not easy to take days off at my work till my holidays on october Im checking into it.

Any Info about your illness Id like to hear was it similar to mine

Kind regards

LMTU

LMTU,

To let you know my lump in my tongue started first. Then my left ear started hurting and had small lump just below my ear lobe right behind jaw bone. SO please as soon as possible seek medical attention of some sort. Waiting only causes more worry and even maybe more problems. The unknown can drive you crazy it is better to find out it is nothing that to never go and have lots of damage. I speak from my own personal experience. I am a mom and I did set a bad example for my kids by waiting so long. Now everyone I tell asks their dentist to look for any areas of concern at their check ups.

Take care and good luck,

Pam C.

LMTU,

"Yes I intect (sic) to go there or there (sic) sister hospital but they close at 4pm so its (sic) not easy to take days off at my work till my holidays on (sic) october Im (sic)checking into it."

Oh, good grief! Stop it!

No, it's never easy - dying of untreated or late diagnosed oral cancer isn't easy nor is treatment even with an early diagnosis. Those who have replied to you have posted kindly while encouraging you to get a diagnosis quickly. I'm not doing that - make an appointment now! No more excuses! Time to grow up! (You're not trolling, are you? Is this game playing? Your excuses don't sound real.)

There's a cable talk show host here (Neicy Nash) who often says, "Put your big girl panties on and deal with it."

Whew. Gotta' simmer down. Got that off my chest. Please let us know the results of the tests you'll be having within the next few days and stop this 'October' business. If I'm wrong and you're nine years old and unable to make decisions for yourself, I'm terribly sorry to have misjudged you.

Mimi

Thank you so much Mom and Mini I apreciate your bluntness may be we are not all as strong as you about Hospitals.

Ill let you know when i ahve been very soon now?

LMTU

Hi Guys,

Well today like a brave boy at 64 I wen to have my check up with the ENT specialist.

He put a camera up my nose down my throat and now he wants to give me a scan MIR I think he called it, as he has called it cervical lymphadenopathy, on the neck glands and may be the tongue, but he cant see any thing there yet.

So then he will take a Biopsy then tell me the worst.

So what do you think will happen in it Cancerous, take out my Lymph nodes and give me the most hideous Chemo or what?

For some reason I said Doctor, am I going to die soon, he just say I can't tell you yet, but its serious.

How terrifying.

Now Im really worried.

Thanks for your in put

LMTU

LMTU,

Sorry about all the fun things at the ent! I haven't gotten the pleasure of the camera up the nose and down the throat!

A word of advise my boss gave me during my treatment and a few others. Stay positive keep focused and you will get thru this.

If you think bad thoughts it is not healthy for yourself. I understand what you are going thru I have been there just end of last year and this year. Remember it could be worse. This is a very operable cancer if it is actually that.

I didn't have chemo. I only had the neck dissection the portion of tongue removed and radiation. I do have a friend that has done chemo for breast cancer and she did just fine and took care of her two small daughters with out a whole lot of assistance needed.

So be strong and positive it will get you places.

Best regards,

Pam C.

LMTU,

Am so glad you were able to arrange an appointment but your doctor certainly doesn't have a bedside manner! You won't know anything until you get the results of the biopsy. It's senseless to say "don't worry," because I'd think there was something really wrong with you if you didn't worry a little bit. We all did; we all had different levels of fear but somehow we managed to get through it all and post on here. We're a little battered and bruised but we're survivors.

The scariest part, believe it or not, is right now, when you don't know what's going on. Once you do, and if it does indeed turn out to be an oral cancer, you'll be given a treatment plan and will know where you're headed.

It pained me to be so tough on you but I'm thrilled that you did what had to be done and I'm sure that MOTB feels the same. Please don't hesitate to contact me at any time, either through the forums or in a private message. I'd like to be your friend through this.

I'm rooting for you buddy, take care!

Mimi

LMTU,

I didn't in anyway purposely try to be mean. I am this way with my husband too! My new theory in life is if you have a problem get it checked out. My dentist originally thought I was biting my tongue in my sleep. I don't see that dentist anymore, had he really checked this all would have been handled quickly and maybe not so much surgery.

My husband has a very red nose my family and his have been after him for 2 years. After my ordeal he finally went to the dr and she gave him cream she says it is Roseasa I am not sure on that spelling. But it does look better. We were all worried he had mylenoma and he kept saying na not me! And I said hello what am I a poster child for oral cancer! No smoking or drinking and I was 30! So I am very glad to say the least that you did get checked.

Keep us posted on what you find out we are all here for each other. I have been down the path hopefully you won't be going down, but if so we are here.

Check out my pictures on the members album it will give you a better idea of me. I am here for anyone who needs me.


Take care,

Pam C.

Hi
sometimes the first sign of oral cancer is a lump or swelling in the lymph glands in the neck(cervical).They usually do a fine needle biopsy which involves putting a needle into the swelling and withdrawing some fluid from it.This will be sent to pathology for examination to see if it contains cancerous cells,occasionally they may take a piece of the swelling.
The scan is called an MRI and you will have to lay on a table which will then move inside a tube .It can be quite claustrophobic and is very noisy.the MRI can take anything from 15 minutes to 45 minutes depending on which part of your body they are scanning.Some hospitals just do head and neck and chest,some do the whole body.This will help them identify if and where the primary tumour could be and if it has spread anywhere.

Try not to worry too much .Until they have the results of the tests they dont really know anything,and as we say here "it aint cancer till someone says its cancer." and most of all remember if it is cancer dont automatically assume the worst.Its a hard road but many have walked it and moved on to a new normal life.

good luck

Hi Guys thanks for all your kind words, yes the road Im going down it trrifying for me I faint at the site of a needle so who knows whats in store for me.

I have other problems with may be Insurence and living in thailand and being cared for but i wont go into that just now. Nothing you cna do to help me there Im afraid.


But when if I haver the scan I wil know more as you say but i have feeling it is cancer as it is growing fast now as it is clustering from 1 1/2 inches to 2 " now along my jaw line so i would have thought that is cancer and may be malignant at least i have only had the problem around 8 weeks so that may be of help

Ill have to see when it is scanned.

Ill let you know and if you have any othetr advice, Ill be more then apreciative for it, to help me through this horrid road, I find my self in.

LMTU

Well today I was very brave and had my first needle on my wrist for my MRI scan what a night mare you are in a tube for over an Hour with so much noise going on and no swallowing or movement for over an Hour.

so now i have to wait for the answer to see how bad the growth is.

then they will do a Biopsy then see what they are going to do after that Operation or Chemo.

The good thing i i have only had the swelling for about 8 weeks surly its not to dangerous in that short time but may be its been growing before that Ill just have to wait ok if you can add anything that they may do to me later let me know

LMTU