I don't mean to be dramatic, but I need
some serious help. I'm a 36 year old mail
with a disturbingly long laundry list of
problems, and I've managed to get myself
wrapped up in self-diagnosis insanity and
simply can't figure out what to do.
I have emotional issues that need to be
addressed, and I am aware of that, but my
problem(s) right now is (are) physical.
sometime in the fall of 2006 I noticed a
lump under my jaw. Of course my heart
dropped. I went to a doctor in December of
2007. He said "I don't feel any lump."
COmpletely nonchalant. I went to multiple
docs after that, and all said "I don't
feel anything"
Finally I went to an "alternative" clinic
in Irvine, and the doc there sent me for a
cervical and abdominal ultrasound. They
found several enlarged nodes in my
neck/under my jaw, none over 2cm but a
couple close. The report also stated that
my spleen was enlarged.
Bloodwork at the time (and all previous
and since) was normal, except I was shown
to have elevated levels of EBV. Not an
acute infection...but chronic?
Anyway...since last fall when I noticed
the lump...my health has gotten worse and
worse. I have almost no energy, and am
completely terrified that I have developed
a blood cancer. I can feel multiple small
nodes in my neck on the left side,
including some down near the pit near my
clavicle. NONE are large, at all. NONE
distend the skin...nothing is BIG, but
there seem to be a LOT of them. They are
mildly tender sometimes as well.
Other constitutional symptoms include
flattened (almost square looking) stool,
temperature problems (feel hot, clammy,
chills, but no fever!), occasional night
sweats (but nothing consistent, and was
only bad when I had the flu recently), and
fairly severe dizziness. I have had
vertigo attacks most of my adult
years...maybe once a year lasting only a
few hours.
The thing is...I've already been to
several doctors...I've spent thousands on
testing and have NO results, and at this
point I wake up every day thinking I have
cancer and that I'm a goner. I can barely
function and my life is truly completely
on hold.
Part of me wants to go to (yet another)
doctor and say LOOK, I need a biopsy done
to PROVE to me that I don't have cancer,
but Im not sure if I want to know! Yes,
the mystery would be over, but then I
would be stuck in the cut/burn/poison
realm, or (equally as bad) stuck with
"alternative" methods which are immmensely
confusing, diffuse, and most of the time
clearly just a scam!
I am at a total loss here, completely
paralyzed, and it really seems that NO ONE
can help me!
I've tried to talk to the people who care
about me, but they dismiss my concerns
because I am a big, strong looking guy,
but I don't feel big and strong most of
the time. I feel weak, tired, listless,
malaise, and DREAD every single damn
morning when I wake up.
This can't go on much longer...I am at my
wits end.
SOMEONE, please help me?
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homerx
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Joined: 03 Jan 2008 Posts: 3019 Location: , USA
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Posted: 02-05-08 16:04pm
If it would make you feel better going to
another doctor then I think you should and
if you want a biopsy to prove once and for
all that you do or do not have cancer then
I don't see how that could or should be a
problem. Just because you are a big strong
man doesn't mean that something may or may
not be going on with your health. I am no
doctor but if I were you I would insist on
a biopsy, if that is what it will take to
set your mind at ease. Good luck to you..
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Tham
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 15 Feb 2008 Posts: 7 Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Posted: 04-29-08 09:32am
Herbs that fight viruses include olive
leaf extract,
pau d'arco (lapacho), monolaurin, oregano
oil,
elderberry and rosemary, which you can
find in
any health food store.
