HELP! Need Advice re: Neck Damage
Posted: Thu Jan 12, 2012 12:05 pm
Hey all, I need your help:
I was a self-sucker from the age of 12 to the age of 45 after which I injured my lower back. Recently, I started to try self-sucking again, but this time putting less pressure on my lower back and more on my middle back and neck.
About 5 weeks ago, I tried self-sucking and a week later I felt a swelling on the left side of my neck, which turned out to be an enlarged lymph node. Long story short, my doctors are trying to determine whether I have neck cancer of some sort, either in the lymph node or elsewhere in the neck that moved to the lymph node.
My question is whether anyone here has ever suffered a neck trauma of some sort (from self-sucking or otherwise) that caused a swelling that appeared to be a mass but turned out to be something benign. I'm thinking (hoping) that I might have caused damage to a lymph node, channel, or caused trauma to tissue or blood vessels that is appearing as a mass on my CT scan.
Any positive thoughts or experience on this would be appreciated. Very scared, here. Thanks!
On a funny note, I can't believe that I might have to bring up my self-sucking to my doctor to address this as a possible cause!
I was a self-sucker from the age of 12 to the age of 45 after which I injured my lower back. Recently, I started to try self-sucking again, but this time putting less pressure on my lower back and more on my middle back and neck.
About 5 weeks ago, I tried self-sucking and a week later I felt a swelling on the left side of my neck, which turned out to be an enlarged lymph node. Long story short, my doctors are trying to determine whether I have neck cancer of some sort, either in the lymph node or elsewhere in the neck that moved to the lymph node.
My question is whether anyone here has ever suffered a neck trauma of some sort (from self-sucking or otherwise) that caused a swelling that appeared to be a mass but turned out to be something benign. I'm thinking (hoping) that I might have caused damage to a lymph node, channel, or caused trauma to tissue or blood vessels that is appearing as a mass on my CT scan.
Any positive thoughts or experience on this would be appreciated. Very scared, here. Thanks!
On a funny note, I can't believe that I might have to bring up my self-sucking to my doctor to address this as a possible cause!