Throat cancer help

Hi Queenie and welcome to the forum

My symptoms were an alteration in my voice, a weird sore throat that didn't feel like any sore throat I'd had before and generally feeling a little under the weather as if I was going down with a cold or something.  All quite innocuous really but just didn't feel 'right'.

Wishing your father in law all the best with his tests and diagnosis.

Linda x

Hi Linda 

My partner has throat cancer as per last question you responded to 

He had a sore throat and his face and neck looked swollen almost like it was retaining water

His voice got quite low and tests showed he had it 

Try not to fret too much as it could be a number of other things 

Glad he's getting help and wish you all the best 

Sharon xx

Ahh hope your doing okay now? 

I think I’m just looking too far into it and making more symptoms for myself 

Unfortunately for us the worst happened it's all pain control and quality of life 

Delays in testing due to covid may or may not have made things worse 

I guess we'll never know 

Xx

Hi Queenie. A warm welcome to the group but in a way I hope you don’t stay.

Throat cancer has different symptoms depending on where it is. If it’s in the larynx the usual symptom is a hoarse voice for a few weeks with no other symptoms. Cancer in the back of the throat, ie tonsils, can manifest as pain on swallowing or very often just a swollen lymph node in the neck where a small tumour has spread. Cancer in the base of the tongue can again be pain or just a swelling. So you see there are lots of symptoms. 
All these signs can easily be something else. 
I hope the results are good and he has nothing to worry about. 

Thank you for the reply, I’m hoping this I have is nothing then, the main symptom is a tight throat and the feeling of a lump xx

HunQueenie 31

my main symptom  was a lump in the hollow of my collar bone .I had no sore throat or pain in neck or mouth. I could eat and drink perfectly fine , Try not to google anything as it’s  the worst thing you can do, go with the hospitals guidance If yiu need us there a few if us in here who have been there and got the  t shirt so to speak. 

Hope we don’t have to offere our help but if you need us we will be here.

good luck 

Hazel