hello i am newly diagnosed, after a botched tooth extraction, by an idiot dentist, the root was left behind, so i had infection after infection, which has now turned into tonsil cancer, i unfortunately thought it was just another infection, so was put on antibiotics for 3 months, until my gland started to swell up, so i have eventually had all the tests and was told friday tonsil cancer that has gone to my glands, like most people who are diagnosed, i am petrified, i have an appointment next week with the oncologist to either tell me i can get treatment or not, being in this limbo is so scary as your mind obviously goes to the darker side of things, i cry a lot, have a lot of panic attacks and feel angry that one stupid dentist could have caused such a gigantic ripple effect for me.
one of the worst things i am finding, is people being rude to me, i cannot deal with it, i either feel rage at such stupid rude individuals or vulnerable and start to cry, do others have these same experiences? a roller coaster emotional thing going on, triggered by others behaviours, sadly, where i live the the place is populated with people who have never been taught how to communicate with others, one last week was in my face shouting at me being abusive and intimidating, so i told him to leave me alone as i have cancer and he started mocking me for it, how do others deal with such appalling behaviour?
Oh ichi what a sad state of affairs.
I despair at some people.
But let’s start somewhere.
First. The infection caused by your retained root has not caused the cancer. It has however masked symptoms and maybe delayed things a little.
Second. Tonsil cancer which has spread to your neck lymph nodes is caused by infection with HPV some time in the past. In fact lymph node swelling is the classic presentation. The good news is that this cancer is very sensitive to radiotherapy and is curable in over 90% of us.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
one of the worst things i am finding, is people being rude to me, i cannot deal with it, i either feel rage at such stupid rude individuals or vulnerable and start to cry, do others have these same experiences? a roller coaster emotional thing going on, triggered by others behaviours, sadly, where i live the the place is populated with people who have never been taught how to communicate with others, one last week was in my face shouting at me being abusive and intimidating, so i told him to leave me alone as i have cancer and he started mocking me for it, how do others deal with such appalling behaviour?
I can read the absolute terror in your post. You think you are going to die horribly and nobody cares or understands
We, here do. Just leave those folk behind and talk to us here while you wait. There’s somebody around most of the time and we don’t care how you rant and rail because we’ve been there. I was in the same place as you I’m five years clear now and living my life well, if not better than before
Please give the support line a ring. There’s a friendly understanding voice at the end of the line.
Stay and talk to us here too
Hugs
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
put on antibiotics for 3 months
Can I just add that this delay won’t matter much. One if our forum members Hazel, RadioactiveRaz spotted her swollen lymph node while she was on holiday, thought it was a pulled muscle and left it for a long time to get looked at. She’s well and kicking five plus years later.
Dani
Base of tongue cancer. T2N0M0 6 weeks Radiotherapy finished January 2019
