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I am a male (45 years of age) and I have developed a number of symptoms during the past 2 months following a major anxiety attack. Here are the symptoms and timelines:
==2 years ago till now==
- Developed hard stool (constipation). However I have been visiting the bathroom at least 4-5 times a week but it is always a very hard stool. One month per year the hard stool became extremely difficult to pass (sometimes took me 45 min in the bathroom!)
- I have a long history of having a fatty liver with elevated ALT (ranging from 45 to 72 U/L)
- I have a long history of elevated CRP (4)
- My triglyceride level has recently been elevated, in the range of 2.9 to 4.9 mmol/L
- My blood pressure is always in the higher normal sides (140/95 mmHg)
==2 months ago, following a major anxiety, which last for 2 months==
- Low-grade fever
- Flushing in my ears, hot red ears
- Sever pain in my feet, I couldn't walk for 1 day
- Disturbed sleep
==6 weeks ago==
- A high fever for 3 days (possibly from flu)
- A semi productive cough
- Muscle in my feet and hand started to get tight
- Sever numbness in my hands and feet, specially during nights
- Burning sensations in my legs and hands
- Elevated CRP (9) and ESR (25)
- Low-grade fever continued
- Excessive sweating day and night
- I became pre-diabetes (blood sugar at 123 mg/dl and 5.9 mmol/L)
- Two red rashes appeared in my palms (please see the below pictures):
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- My temperature and blood pressure increased when I sit and decreased when I stand up
- Red hot ears continued, usually started with the right ear and then left, last for 1-2 hours
- My ears continued to remain hot throughout my night sleep and go to normal as soon as I wake up. Sometimes I feel pain sleeping on them and sometimes no pain.
- Loss of appetite, lost 5-6 kg (10-12 lbs), possibly due to eating less
- Stomach started growling all day and all night long
- Sensitivity of the skin to pressure and touch, became temporarily red when scratched
== My current symptoms==
- Two red rashes are still there
- The hot ears are still persisting, the upper section gets hot and normally the ear lob remains cold
- Profuse sweating during day and night. At night I only get sweating in my head and shoulders. My pillow gets wet but not drenching wet.
- I feel discomfort in my upper right abdomen, where my liver is
- I continue getting stomach growling all day long, no matter if I have eaten or not. I feel the sounds are mostly coming from my upper right abdomen area
- I still have persisting coughs and I have voice hoarseness after 6 weeks
- My CRP/ESR levels fluctuates: CRP between 6 and10 and ESR between 15 and 35
- I still have tingling feeling and burning sensation in my hands during night, but not sever
- I have some mild joint pain and muscle tightness
- I feel less energized than before
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I have been tested negative for: Mono, TB, Hepatitis, and HIV with normal CBC, liver enzymes (except for ALT), urine culture, TSH, testosterone, and vitamins.
What I am worried about is the possibility of having lymphoma.
Please evaluate my symptoms and let me know your assessment.
Thank youView Thread



Has anyone had this? I want as second and third opinion.View Thread



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I am getting a second opinion in July.
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Started with chest/breast pain I have been to many, many doctors and specialist and nothing. Cardiologist, Neurologist, GI's, General doctors, ER's...the list goes on. I'm 24 years old, female and have become depressed lately.
I discovered my 1st lymph node in summer of 2010, my doctor at that time said it was a cyst (concluded that because of my severe acne) so I believed her. she sent me to do an mri of my neck.. normal.
months went by and it went away, then it came back out in april of 2011. ever since only on my neck, my new doctor (at that time in april) said it was a viral infection put me on valtrex, the nodes went away (so i thought) I had an upper GI, xray, ct scan done on my chest and nothing. I got very dehydrated that year multiple times as well as hospitalized. during that year my stomach began to hurt, so I was setn to do a colonoscopy and endoscopy...even an ultrasound. normal... hida scan; normal
til this day my stomach is in pain, my chest, my left underarm, my neck gets stiff when the lymph nodes come back, recently been in really bad headaches and neck aches. my back is worst.... my legs get itchy and are dry, i get random feelings of itchy skin all over. doctors say its just anxiety. they have leaned on that since my heart has been on a rate of 140+ (three cardiologist checked me and said that my heart is healthy) doctors say it isnt lymphoma.though some in emergency have concerns they keep sending me back home. blood works come back normal too
i guess to relieve my worries they said many tmj patients get fibromyalgia... i dont know what to do or believe. i have been to so many doctors and i am so desperate i came here. i even went to los angeles for help ended back here in nyc...crying isnt an option since that wont help.
i feel breathless, fatigued. the nodes on my neck are there, steady... i dont know what to do. my doctor left her clinic left me a referral to see a hematologist in june 11...I was supposed to be seen in april but I got pushed back, twice.
i left my job and dropped a few classes because the pains are unbearable, the medications don't work and no one is helping me.View Thread






My father had Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, and more than likely had the hemochromatosis, but there is no way to verify that, since he died before I was diagnosed, and we had never even heard of it. I seem to be following in his footsteps when it comes to having miscellaneous health problems all the time.
They said my biopsy was benign. The results say there were "mixed follicular and hurthle cells" and colloid and something else, and that that is consistent with non-toxic multi-nodular goiter. If that's not what's causing the pain, swelling, choking, difficulty breathing and swallowing, etc, then I don't know what could be...unless it is lymphoma. But I don't know as much about lymphomas as I do about my symptoms, and have questions.
Is it possible to have lymphoma and not have visible or palpable nodes? (There is only one on my right that I can feel, about the size of a pea or almond, but the docs don't seem to notice it). I had a staph infection in 2001, and for years now I feel that particular node off and on; the more tired I am (and I'm exhausted all the time), the more I feel it. Are there things here that aren't consistent w/diagnosis of NHL?
Another couple things are that I've had horrible bone pain lately in my pelvic bone (tailbone level, roughly), and for four or five years have had that pain in my left iliac crest on the pelvic bone. Also, recently I've noticed that after having a glass or two of wine, my neck and ears are hot and a little red.
If anyone has anything at all, any suggestions or anything, I'd be so grateful. I don't even care what the diagnosis is at this point - I just want one so I can figure out what it is and how to deal with it. The thoguht of going on like this indefinitely never knowing what it is has just gotten to be too much.
Sorry this was so long. I'm just feeling desperate anymore.
Thanks everyone.View Thread



She was cancer free until diagnosed with the same cancer in her stomach on Nov. 22, 2011. This time the battle has been a fast roller coaster ride of hospital stays ranging from a week to 17 days,every other week. Each time she spends time in the ICU due to vomiting blood and having two procedures done to stop the bleeding.
At diagnosis she was told she had an 80% survival rate. In Dec. her doctor told her the tumor wasn't growing and he was happy with the way things were going. Two weeks later she was in ICU and we were told chemo wasn't working, the tumor was growing and there was nothing more that could be done.
We transported her home to the local hospital where she was placed on Hospice. We were told she would not survive the ride. Two days later she was awake, up and telling everyone she is going to beat this. She is tough and has too much to do.
Her cancer Dr was surprised to get the phone call from the local Dr saying she wanted to see him.
It has been two weeks since that ambulance ride. Mom is now home, kicked off of Hospice.
Her cancer Dr told her that if she gains weight he will send her to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN to have her entire stomach removed.
Does anyone have any experience with ... Lymphoma in Stomach? Stomach removal? Life after stomach removal? Mayo Clinic?View Thread





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