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Lump In Neck With Other Symptoms
Posted: 10-26-06 09:18am

I have had this lump on the right side of my neck for some time now (over a year) and I have had feelings of fullness in my head (pressure) two cat scans and an mri of neck and head and an mra of head showed normal. I have been to the er room for this on one occasion because the pressure was very bad and I felt I needed medical attention right away. After I was seen and blood work done it showed that my neutropphils count was high(79.2) range= 43.0 - 72.0% / lymphcytes low (14.2) range = 18.0 - 43.0%. My segs for the differential manual were high 78 range = 25 - 62% and lymphs low 15 range= 20 - 52%. I was also told the lump in my neck was a swollen/infected lymph node (2 doctors confirmed this) the er doctor suggested I bring this to my doctors attention, which I did the next day, and she told me there was nothing wrong with me except stress due to the death of my mother (died of lung cancer in march 2006 - I was at the doctors for this in june 2006). So nothing was done except that she kept me on ativan for stress, which did nothing for the feelings I get on the same side of my head that the lump is on. Over the past several months I have been getting night sweats, feelings of just not feeling good (always asking "do I have a fever?" and feeling hot and cold- wake up with night sweats which are not constant but enough to make me aware there is something going on) - I am just getting over a sinus infection that took two weeks to clear the infection but I still have a cough and achey feelings (like the flu going on 4 weeks) I had a chest x-ray which was normal. I did some research on the low and high counts of the blood and the swollen lymph node in my neck and it all led me to hodgkins/non hodgkins disease. I am in need of some advice - should I seek a second opinion from another doctor or wait until my symptoms get worse? Help!
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