Lymph node chin hard

Hi all, my mitotic rate is 2-3, non-ulcetated, 0.82mm, on top of my foot. I met with my surgical oncologist & he said 15% chance it may have spread to lymph nodes. Can someone please share positive stories with high mitotic rates, those who did not have any spread to lymph nodes? I believe I was given the 15% chance & not lower due to the mitotic rate. Really struggling while waiting, thinking every ache and pain is the cancer spreading. In need of positive stories! ☹️

23F, occasional marijuana user, no known health issues, takes 50 mg spironolactone for off label tx of acne
So for the last several months to a year or two I have had an area on my neck that swells and goes down periodically. It is located slightly right to the midline of my neck just in the area where my chin meets my neck, maybe near the hyoid bone. I would consider this between submental and submandibular region. When the area swells I can feel my neck quite swollen in this area and that side feels slightly uncomfortable when I swallow on that side. My tonsils are still present but not visually enlarged. The lump is not always present and I cannot seem to connect a trend with it. It comes and goes. It is a hard immovable lump that is not seen visually but can be felt. I had it looked at once last fall when it swelled up by an NP at urgent care. The diagnosis was a swollen parotid gland, however this area is no where near the parotid. I had an ultrasound as well but the results were normal. The lump has returned and I just feel very uneasy about it and have tried researching other possibilities it could be but am stumped. I realize no one can give me a diagnosis, but does anyone have ideas I can look into and perhaps discuss with my doctor? Thank you

Hi y'all, I just started week 3, 1.8mg, and for the past week have had this tension in my neck and my lymph nodes have been aching.
I know the risk of thyroid cancer is miniscule, especially appearing in a week lol, but has anyone else experienced the same? I've been waiting to see if I come down with cold or flu symptoms to explain the lymph nodes but so far nothing.
Thanks liraglutiders 😎🫡

33M, caucasian, non-smoker, social drinker, history of SVT with overall low risk factors. Currently taking Pantapropozole, Carvidolol, Multivitamin, Iron, Miralax. I'll attempt to make this short-winded and hope this counts as appropriate for this subreddit!. Around ~August 2023, I suddenly started having random spikes/drops in my sugar levels, as well as fatigue and notable weight loss (40 pounds over 4 1/2 months). My previous PCP started the workup and over the next ~3 months, I was in and out of hospital admissions/countless doctor visits. Over this time I started to develop more symptoms, most notably night sweats, increasing GI issues, and worsening fatigue/tiredness.
Because the symptoms were mostly non-specific, I had pretty broad, general workups with few things off (my hemoglobin dropped several points in November then slowly recouped back to 15.5. Saw a hematologist and he basically just said "you had a bleed, it clotted off and now you're recovering. If it drops again come back to me"). Full body CT w/contrast, MRI of spine/brain, colonoscopy/endoscopy, spinal tap, echo, CPX, countless blood tests which I would fail to mention all of, but including endocrine/rheumatological and autoimmune markers, as well as viral potential causes.
At some point in December my gp basically threw his hands up and said "we don't have anything to work with, the few abnormal things are recovering". Fast forward to February, I end up in the ER with severe nausea and a dull pain below my lower left rib cage. They do a repeat CT and mention that my spleen is still "minimally enlarged" but there are no noticable masses, and my liver is "no longer slightly enlarged". These are two things I was never told about, I suppose because they felt they weren't significant enough? But made me realize I needed another opinion/better guidance. The radiologist also noted on the report that I had "mild haziness near the mesenteric root of the pancreas level", but "pancreas unremarkable otherwise" as well as normal lymph nodes in the area. He recommended checking for pancreatitis and/or mesenteritis.
I go into a new GP in March. She's fantastic - extremely thorough and importantly doesn't immediately try to blame this all on the easy things. She gets me into GI and hematology (had another GI doctor but she wanted me to get another opinion, as the old one basically said your colonoscopy/egd are normal, come back in 7 years). Hematology came first, and he basically said objectively, you acutely then chronically bled, used up all your iron stores which caused excess fatigue (fatigue/tiredness is still a primary issue for me but is substantially better than a month ago when I started iron supplementation) and now you're recouping. We can do a bone marrow biopsy or a PET scan, but I can tell you what they will show: nothing. I asked about the spleen/livemesentery involvement and he just said "your blood work and scans show no sign of a mass, if malignancy were making you this symptomatic, it would be more obvious and you wouldn't have seen any improvement. In addition your liver has reduced in size and your spleen is still barely enlarged with no signs of mass, malignancy doesn't act this way".
I leave the visit at least more optimistic about the situation, but still feeling awful and like this is some type of GI related malignancy that's killing me, frankly. (As a side note, symptoms became so problematic that I had to stop working full time which has obviously been another stresser during all of this).
Then the GI visit comes (about 2 weeks ago now at this point). We go over everything and he just basically says "let's skip the MRI and go for a pillcam to get a closer look at your small intestines, and an endoscopic ultrasound to take a closer look at your pancreas and this inflamed part of your mesentery". Sounds great to me! I know people go years looking for a diagnosis sometimes, but the last 8 months have been the most exhausting/stressful/longest of my life and he seemed adamant about getting to the bottom of this.
Here's where my concern/question comes in: back in December in my last hospital admission, the hospitalist asked what I thought this may be. I pretty quickly said PC, because of the way things progressed and the initial, non-specific symptoms + sugar issues (which seem to have mostly gotten better? I've also regained 30 pounds since, which is a "good" sign I know). He kind of laughed and just said "your pancreas has been imaged and looked at twice by two separate radiologists and neither saw anything to worry about" (this was before the February scan showing mesentery involvement). I kind of gave up on that idea/worry for a long time because of the assured way he answered my concern over it, but now I've got it in my head that that's what has been the culprit all this time and have been told CT's miss signs of PC pretty frequently, and the mesentery/spleen findings are a result of pancreatic tail or body involvement that's spread, which the GI did mention it was unlikely to be in the head as you'd almost certainly see bile duct involvement/jaundice evidence at this point, or the classic pale/clay stools, which I haven't had.
I know there is pretty strong evidence to this point to suggest it isn't a pancreatic tumor, given 3 contrast CT's now over 9 months with no sign of it, improvement in some symptoms (night sweats are virtually gone, fatigue is significantly better), some of the more obvious/common symptoms not being there, like the stool/jaundice, but instinctively this just feels like the right place to look. I'm not terrified of a diagnosis at this point, but I'm absolutely mortified that this is going to get worse before I have the chance to even figure out what it is because of the things that have continued to worsen (nausea/malaise in the morning especially, tiredness/dyspnea... Well, the dyspnea has improved since the iron supplementation as well, but considering I could get up and run five miles 9 months ago and now a small flight of stairs whip me...). The idea of losing ~6 months of valuable time if I'd pushed this concern harder back in December is also a hard pill to swallow. Speaking of, the pillcam is Thursday, and the EUS is the 28th. I tried to move it up but they are booked out (I feel like I they suspected pancreatic cancer they would have got me in sooner as well) and I don't want to push it anymore in the case that it isn't that, and I potentially take someone's spot that needs it before I do. I guess I'm asking for someone to talk me off this ledge and trust that something obvious wasn't missed, or even recommend I continue to push this as maybe it sounds like a familiar situation someone has witnessed in the past where it ended up being something like PC. I think I've mentally accepted almost every potential outcome of this situation except for that one, which likely has to do with me being intimately familiar with what it looked like in the end for a friend.
That was... Long-winded. Sorry, I tried haha. I wish you all the best of health moving forward!

i'm currently taking latuda 20mg and trazodone 50 mg for sleep. i take 1-2 stimulant laxes a day after taking 3-5for years and i wanted to wean off them entirely, but i've found it hard to stop.
ever since i started psych medication after 2.5 years of not being on it, i'm bipolar and had a very bad breakdown my gi issues have worsened. i've been using lax since i was about 19-20, i'm 27 now, i struggled with such bad constipation after my bout with anorexia that i never stopped taking stimulant laxatives, though i've gradually reduced them. every psych medication i've tried since december 2023 has failed me and i'm now starting to suspect it's my lax use, but i'm afraid to stop out of fear of what itll do to my bowels.
for the past week i've been experiencing on and off vertigo/dizziness, shivering, heart palpitations, exhaustion, farting and lymph node swelling, coldness in my limbs and muscles, and sensitivity around my veins, immense stomachache, which has never occurred longer term before, just once in a blue moon. when i scratched my stomach earlier the skin actually turned red. i cannot tell if this is the psych medication or not but a lot of it seems to occur around my bowel movements. it also happened during/after my period. makes it hella hard to function and i feel out of commission and extremely exhausted during the hours where i experience those symptoms.
i have an appointment with therapist tmmrw and i dont know if i should tell her i need to stop and search for advice. i already owe thousands to the ER from an allergic reaction to my medication so i'm afraid to go to a residential. i have also been tested for other conditions and they claim nothing is wrong other than a higher than avg hemoglobin level and a 'dry kidney' from dehydration. yet i feel like absolute sick shit.
i'm not engaging in restrictive behavior beyond the lax taking. my insurance is crappy and i only have a general practitioner doctor and psychiatrist whos out of pocket. dont think anyone who specializes in gi health is covered. my entire body is heaving and writhing and has no idea what to do and i'm afraid of stopping the lax, should i just reduce it to one pill every few days to start and then buy some miralax?
please, i need help. i've been wanting to get off these for years but felt helpless to stop and now i fear if i dont it will end catastropically. i'm afraid my system will shut down if i dont stop, but i'm also afraid itll shut down if i stop cold turkey too quickly. please please help me and offer me some advice on how to get thru this.

I 32F had an abdominal CT with contrast following removal of a borderline ovarian tumor. No other medical conditions. This was ordered after my first visit with the gyn oncologist to make follow up plans. In the results the radiologist put:
“No suspicious finding. Pelvic ultrasound and MRI have better sensitivity for evaluation of reproductive organs.”
Am I overthinking this? Is that a subtle concern? The observations are as follows:
OBSERVATIONS: LIMITED LOWER CHEST: Normal. LIVER: Normal. BILIARY TREE: Normal. GALLBLADDER: Normal. PANCREAS: Normal. SPLEEN: Normal. ADRENAL GLANDS: Normal. KIDNEYS/URETERS/BLADDER: Normal. PELVIC ORGANS: Normal, accounting for CT technique. BOWEL: Normal. LYMPH NODES: Normal. PERITONEUM/MESENTERY: Physiologic amount of free pelvic fluid. No ascites. VESSELS: Normal. ABDOMINAL WALL: Probable postsurgical changes. BONES: Normal.
What would be the meaning of “normal, accounting for CT technique” in reference to the pelvic organs? Does this mean she didn’t get a clear view?

Is pain a common symptom? Mine feels almost like I’m sevearlly bruised while Simultaneously sun burn around my torso and pro dominantly lower back radiating around my kidney area.
My sarcoidosis is only confirmed in my lungs and lung lymph nodes.
Is pain elsewhere normal?

I am a 27 year old female. I’ve had 2 kids. Since having my kids I’ve noticed my skin is horrible. I wash my face twice a day with Youth to the People. I use toner and BHA. No matter what I do I can’t seem to get rid of sebaceous filaments all over my chin, between brows, and on forehead. Sometimes they get so big they almost look like a noticeable pimple. I hardly ever wear makeup. I’ve been to the doctor and they tested my hormone level and said everything was normal. I am looking for any advice what I can do to help :(
Ps I’m also looking for a new daily SPF.

My boy recently seems to have changed. He doesn't want to come out as often and is very hesitant. I haven't done anything recently to make him think I'm trying to trick him, but he suddenly is so finicky. He doesn't shy away from pets or scritches or anything, but he won't budge on trying to coax him out for play time. Even leaving the cage open for half an hour while I'm away from the opening (sitting on my bed behind the cage) doesn't work.
I know the past few months or so I've been bad about letting him out. With the end of my first year as a grad student and other personal and family issues it's been really difficult to find the energy to do literally anything, let alone having him out and supervise. I'm trying really hard to get better letting him out every day, but so often he's just... not interested. He barely came out for a bath yesterday. It felt like pulling teeth.
I feel like this has happened before, a period of "moody teen". Just hope it passes soon. It just makes me feel like I'm failing him.
I change his cage every week and almost daily vacuum it, he doesn't have a dirty cage and has plenty of food, hay, and toys and lots of space. I give him a new stick like every other day. He's also in the middle of shedding; no matter how much I vacuum, his cage and subsequently my room is covered in chin fur. Could that have something to do with it?

Age 50
Sex F
Height 5"3
Weight 135
Race Caucasian
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edit for rule following- asking this question because it is now personally effecting me: I need to know if it's possible that there's a rare hereditary platelet disorder in my family, or if it's just alcoholism, because my child requires a surgery and their hematologist basically left it up to me whether I wanted to pursue testing since the relatives is so inconclusive.
original post:
A family member recently had two surgeries - a craniotomy for an unruptured aneurysm (which was done emergently as the patient had a seizure) and then a thyroidectomy / lymph node removal. Post op courses of both were slow with excessive bruising, they required draining of blood collection multiple times after the removal of the lymph nodes.
A Hematology work up was negative for all the common issues (such as Von Willebrands). It was basically concluded to be an unidentifiable platelet issue (possibly PAI1)
It is suspected that this person was drinking to excess at the time, but they denied it both to family and to their medical team (it was reported as "occasional social drinking").
I know that alcohol can cause bleeding, but my question is how much drinking would it take to cause a problem like this, and would they have needed to actually be drinking within the immediate time frames of the surgeries themselves, or would significant alcohol abuse in the same time as the issues be enough to cause this problem.
Thanks!

I had an infected Bartholian cyst and it’s now almost gone yay but my Lymph node on my thigh on the same side is swollen, was wondering if this happens to anyone else? I have a doctors appointment in the next week just incase but I’m really anxious about it because my dog was just diagnosed with lymph node cancer haha :(

I read a bit about how tattooing and how the human body deems it unsafe, so the immune system attacks it with white blood cells, and carries the crud to the lymph nodes to filter. So peoples nodes get all inked up from the break down of it. And thats why the tattoos fade over time. My question is, is it just the process of it all or is the ink? If its the ink, I havent found nothing online when it comes to vegan tattoo. If anyone can spare a minute to elaborate

Can somebody tell me how much is the doctor's fee in Makati Life Medical Center for check up/consultation? And if pwede walk-in? Kasi hindi pa sila nag re-respond sa text ko e. Papa-consult ko 'tong lymph nodes or kulani ko (not sure din if ito nga tawag dito pero basta 'yong lump sa leeg huhu). Kinakabahan kasi ako baka lumala to. Pleas help me guys! Or can anyone recomment affordbable hospital I can go for a check up/consultation.

I am trying to wrap my head around dev containers and how to use them properly, but I am a bit confused
Do I create a new container for every project I work? Or can all my node projects share one container?
Where on the hard drive do the containers exist?

I [18f] and my mom [46f] used to get along really well when I was younger. I never had that “I hate my parents” phase like most of my friends did and I really enjoyed going shopping and going on little weekend trips with my mom. When I was 13 we discovered I had a gluten and dairy allergy so my mom worked really hard to help me find foods and really supported my diet no matter what. After my 16th birthday my mom quit buying me food and on my birthday made a normal cake saying “nobody is going to want to eat a gluten and dairy free cake” when all the years prior she had no problem making me birthday cakes the fit my allergy needs. So I never got a cake and my brother ended up eating all the birthday cake. Then I got my first job where I worked 5 days a week and only ate once a day on the days I worked because it was the only place I could get food. One day I went to my grandmas house and asked if she had any of my food (my grandma almost always accommodated for my allergies) she said she had one of my frozen pizzas in the freezer, we went out together and that’s when I told her my mom had quit buying me food. A whole fight broke out between the two and my mom started crying while my brother comforted her and my dad called me a spoiled brat. After that my mom bought me food on and off for 3 months until I started my senior year of When I was midway through high school I learned that my allergies had gone away from accidentally eating cheese that was on a burger. My mom seemed really annoyed and I started eating normal food. Recently me and my bf [19m] have been talking about moving in together. All of my friends and coworkers are super supportive and excited for me, but my parents just act like they want me out of the house. My older brother (we’ll call him Steve) has a swollen lymph node on his neck and has had to go to the doctor several times for last month and a half. At first I was really concerned about it, but after the doctors ruled out that It was nothing serious like cancer I realized he was ok. Well, Steve had gotten a temporary disability from his work, so that he’ll still get payed to just sit in his room all day. Meanwhile my parents fuss over him daily, my mom can’t have a conversation with me without him being the main subject and Steve has literally gotten away with throwing things at me and cussing at me while my mom doesn’t do anything. I tried bringing it up to my mom and she got mad at me saying that Steve is hurt and he could be unalived by his swollen lymph node and saying how they talk about me just not in front of me. I pretty much dropped it after that but my mom only continued talking about him more. A few weeks ago I had to report someone to the police for harassment and because she was causing a lot of stress in my life, when I told my mom she just shrugged it off acting like it was a normal thing to do every day. Steve is home everyday and my mom acts like she never sees him. Whenever he comes downstairs it’s always “hey Steve! How are you! What have you been up to?” Whereas I can be gone every day for 2 weeks and my parents won’t even bat an eye. Yesterday my boyfriend’s ex girlfriend came into my work and just watched me for an hour. I tried my best to ignore her and finished up my shift. When my mom got home from work I told her and she just brushed it off like it was nothing, but turned around and fusses over if my brother had eaten or not. Side note: my boyfriend lives almost an hour away so his ex had to drive a good 40 minutes just to get to my work I’ve been upstairs almost all day today, but I’m just so frustrated and I needed to get this off my chest, does anyone have any advice?

For the last 2 years or so since I first got COVID, every time I’m about to get struck down with (day before symptoms appear) or just recovered from a cold/flu (say about 2-3 days post recovery) I get pain in my left collarbone that appears to be where the left supraclavicular nodes are. It presents as a small lump sometimes but goes away quickly and doesn’t visibly linger. Is very soft to touch, mainly just aches. Can touch and sometimes see it better if I lift the arm. The aches will last a few days and then generally disappear until I get sick again. I’ve seen a few doctors who’ve said “it’s just your bodies reaction to the virus” but unfortunately it’s disappeared before I can get an appointment and they haven’t assessed the lump when present. I did the naughty and googled it and not liking the answers I saw. Is this common/nothing to worry about if it always and only matches up to when my body is fighting an infection? 30m, non smoker, “relatively” fit if that matters.

Official CT results: “New heterogeneous enhancing foci with central hypodensities scattered peripherally through the liver for example at the right hepatic dome lesion measures 3.8 x 3.6cm, these are suspicious for new hepatic lesions”
Still waiting on MRI results but I am not thinking it’s good.
Summary of the situation: dad had lung cancer, full removal of lung. (NSCLC) 3A, spread to local lymph nodes which were also removed.
Precautionary chemo but there was no detectable cancer before he started.
After chemo he was given his scans and declared cancer free.
He started to bounce back after chemo, extremely well. His hemoglobin (which was 6-7 before they caught the cancer and has been around 7 during all of it) is back up to 10.
1mo after he started his adjuvent care / immunotherapy, which included Keytruda. Has scans again before- all are clear.
2-3 weeks after first treatment he gets violently ill, weak, fatigued.
When he goes back for second treatment they decide to run bloodwork and CT instead of treatment.
We get a call from the doctor and the liver enzymes are high, and the CT came back with an abnormality on the liver. He said he doesn’t think it’s serious and there’s “no defined edges,” so it’s likely not a lesion. And he ordered an immediate MRI.
Everything else was mostly normal, hemoglobin actually up at 11. Only other abnormality was a slightly swollen spleen, but they informed us that that is normal after chemo.
HOWEVER, on the CT report on his charts it reads: “New heterogeneous enhancing foci with central hypodensities scattered peripherally through the liver for example at the right hepatic dome lesion measures 3.8 x 3.6cm, these are suspicious for new hepatic lesions”
So basically the report contradicts what he said to us, and we feel as if he was trying to keep us calm until the MRI (they also didn’t post the CT report for a few days when it’s usually as soon as they have results- but this may be nothing). It says there is a lesions and multiple other possible lesions.
We’re are not telling my dad what the official report says, as we are distraught and don’t want to worry him. This sounds much worse and we are praying for the best, but having terrible anxiety.
He’s all of a sudden so sick again lately. I can’t fathom this. I can’t fathom this cancer came back this aggressive this fast out of the blue. I can’t. He was clear less than 3 weeks ago. All his other tests are IMPROVING.
He received his MRI yesterday and we are awaiting his results still. They said we’d likely hear back on Thursday… waiting is excruciating.
Please, someone tell us it’s going to be ok.