Hello. I am brand new to this forum, so bear with me while I learn. I actually want to describe some symptoms my husband is experiencing & hope someone might have heard of them & can shed some light.

My husband found a lump in his neck a wk ago. It is very painful and radiates up through the back of his head and down his right arm. The doctor told him all the lymph nodes on the right side are enlarged and that it could be anything from an infection to hodgkin's disease!!! They ran blood tests and did chest x-ray but still no answer. They are going to do a cat scan on friday & possibly a biopsy of the lump too. He is extremely tired, sleeping more than 12 hours a day. He is sweaty, red faced and in a lot of pain in the neck & head. He is getting headaches and feels completely drained all the time. His bloodwork does not indicate an infection and he doesn't have a temperature.

I am scared to death. I feel like he is getting worse everyday and the thought of him having a strange illness or even cancer is devastating. He is miserable and I am just not confident that the doctors are being aggressive enough. Does anyone know about hodgkin's disease, mono, west nile, lymph infections, etc. Etc.??!! These are the things running through my head. I just don't know what it could be and how the doctors are going to figure it out & help to "fix" him! To add injury to insult, I myself am only 4 weeks post-op from an emergency c-section (which obviously means we have a newborn at home). I don't think I have the patience to let the doctors take weeks while they try to figure this out. They really don't seem to have a clue & we are both starting to wear thin emotionally. Any help or thoughts to this would be greatly appreciated!!!