[ SECRET POST #1958 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1958 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I wish you the best in finding a way to get it checked, OP. When you do, have 'em go straight to the thyroid. I'm no expert so I can't say goiter or cancer, but I'm a sufferer and the symptoms you list are familiar.

[(Anonymous)]

I second the thyroid vote. I can't say which one it is either, but it sounds like the likely culprit. You know, since you're saving up for the doctor, if you can, start treating yourself at least with food or herbal medicine for now if you can afford it. Eating lots of vegetables and fruit may at least help the healing process. You can check http://naturalliving.livejournal.com/tag/thyroid to see if there's anything you can do yourself.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Thirded on the thyroid. Check into the iodine content of your regular diet, too. (Not enough iodine can lead to goiter, but it's not as simple as just that.)

If it's cancer, though, you need to know it soon and deal with it as quickly as possible, before the cancer gets into your lymphatic system and spreads through your body. You can survive thyroid cancer pretty easily if you catch it early enough. So don't wait. Find a doctor or a charity that can help you now.

[(Anonymous)]

Fourthed on the thyroid. Not a doctor, but a fellow sufferer, and that list of symptoms is familiar. It can also fuck up your cognition, your growth, your hair, basically your whole life.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

And fifthed. Your exhaustion could totally be related to your thyroid crapping out on you.

*hugs*

I am so sorry that you are in this position. I will keep you in my thoughts, Anon.

[eaemilia.livejournal.com]

Thirding this. My mom had problems with her thyroid, and this sounds like some of the stuff she went through.

[(Anonymous)]

OP here

Thank you so much for your concern and suggestions. When I do (finally someday) go to a doctor, I will definitely have them check the thyroid.

I'm wondering myself, because isn't your thyroid down low, under your voice box? My lump is up high, near the pulse point, under my jaw. But I know next to nothing about this stuff, just what I could google about lumps in necks.

[lunabee34.livejournal.com]

That might be your lymph node. But IDK if a thyroid issue could make your lymph nodes swell.

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Thyroid cancer survivor here! I wasn't diagnosed for a very long time (good medical system, crappy fat-phobic doctors) and I was fine. You have lymph nodes where you describe, and chronic exhaustion and low-grade infections can definitely lead to swelling of lymph nodes. When my thyroid cancer was finally found, they were concerned because my lymph nodes were so big - but it was because I had been chronically sick for so long, since thyroid problems mess with your immune system too.

Love and best wishes to you.

[hypercaz.livejournal.com]

I used to get those, and then I was diagnosed with a thyroid thing - go figure. Maybe just a coincidence. The thyroid thing can be checked by a simple blood test, but I realise I live in a country where blood tests and doctor visits are free if bulk billed. The problem with you ever getting diagnosed is that you would have to obtain and pay for the medication.

This needs to be checked, OP. My life is 400% better now that I know the problem isn't me being lazy and sleepy for no reason. I don't know enough about your culture, but if there's a way you can get it checked - do it. Thyroid issues are serious - and if you get onto the medz, your life will be so much easier and you won't feel so overwhelmed. And as someone else said here... if you have to go into debt to get treated - do it.

[cashay.livejournal.com]

I agree with luna, the position sounds more like your lymph knot but as tempting as it is to self-diagnose via the Internet I wouldn't take what you find too seriously. Your symptoms are generic enough to give you results from problems with your thyroid gland to having cancer.
And just because certain symptoms point to one thing doesn't mean you have it, sometimes different things play into it. For example I have all the symptoms for an underactive thyroid gland but my thyroid functions perfectly. So yeah, what I'm trying to say is: Don't let yourself get freaked out by the Internet. I can't imagine how scared you have to be and I wish you all the best *hugs*

And most of all: Never, ever feel bad for being sick. I'm not sure if it's any consolation but even a lot of people in countries with a good health care system feel bad for being sick. *hugs again*

I'm not sure how expensive over the counter medicine is where you live but did you ever ask a pharmacist if they have something that could help you?