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please help! have had all symptoms of non hodgkins well over a year..positive lymph node on mamogram,chest x ray and ct scan...yet it waxes and wanes..have chills drenching night sweats sleep up to 20 hours a day itchy all over,yet yesterday I was belitt

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Submitted by janeyblue on Wed, 02/11/2009 - 22:46.
help me please help! have had all symptoms of non hodgkins well over a year..positive lymph node on mamogram,chest x ray and ct scan...yet it waxes and wanes..have chills drenching night sweats sleep up to 20 hours a day itchy all over,yet yesterday I was belittled for half an hour by this surgeon he refuses to remove or biopsy. I have a grossly enlarged thyroid which was biopsied on Feb 2 and came back inconclusive for follicular thyroid cancer or abnormal cell growth. he will grudgingly remove half my thyroid. i am in tears because of all of this. I have only one dr who listens cares but she is my pulmonoligist she has ordered all tests to get me this far. if anyone can suggest anything please help me! I am afraid and basically alone in this fight and I dont know how much longer i can go on. ty all janey
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Submitted by Kasia on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 03:31.
I don't know where your from, but aren't there other other doctors in your area that you might visit to obtain a second opinion (oncologists would be prefered) ?? By the way, the symptoms specified by you are characteristic for non hodgkins as well as hodgkins lymphoma. All the best. Kasia
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Submitted by specialeducation on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 12:57.
Hi Janey I think you need to get biopsied. I have not had any of the symptoms you mentioned except I have had abdominal pain and yet I have been diagnosised with follicular B cell lymphoma. There are too many doctors out there to be treated harshly by any one doctor. Find other doctors to deal with your issues.
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