I have had a breast mri, nodes are okay, neck ultra-snd. nodes ok. still have night sweats chest pain in am. low back pain and 99.5 fever almost daily for 6 months. can this still be lymphoma? ~ 30 year old overweight female.

I'm so scared about this all the time. Maybe my anxiety over dying and hypochondria are contributing factors to my symptoms. Any help I could get would be great. I think my doctors are tired of me in the office, because I feel like I know that something is wrong.

Steph:
OK well keep in mind that your symptoms could be lots of things and that people at this site are generally familiar with lymphoma symptoms only.

The chest pain, coupled with your fever and your night sweats- first thing I thought of was Hodgkin's, but those are very general symptoms. Does that chest pain give you a cough or cause shortness of breath? Any problems with itchiness? Also that's a very low-grade fever, generally a lymphoma-associated fever would be over 100.4.

When you say breast MRI I don't quite get that. Was it an MRI of just your breasts (do they even do that?) or a chest MRI? I imagine you're saying you've had an MRI of your chest and it came up negative. If that's the case then, unless they missed a tumor, the chest pain is related to some other issue.

As for those nodes, swollen nodes are common in lymphomas and you say yours in the neck and underarms are fine but they can also be swollen in the groin.

Had you not had some of these tests, I might think there's a better chance of HL or an NHL, but otherwise ... can't say. Evidently something's going on, it's strange to run a fever for that long.

Finally, your weight is a risk factor for cancer in general, but not really for lymphoma.

Finally, your doctors may be tired of you, you may even be a hypochondriac, I don't know, but if I thought something was wrong with me I wouldn't give a damn if my doctors were tired of me and you shouldn't either. I guess the problem is, let's say they rule out any sort of lymphoma, would that put your mind at ease, or would you find another syndrome? I mean if you're determined to find something wrong, that's problematic, especially if there's nothing there.