Help please: need neck biopsy asap

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Hello to all in the group,

This is my first post. Here's my confusing story/situation:

1) In June, I became ill with what I thought was bronchitis/pneumonia. I had

some augmentin in the house that my husband brought back from a trip overseas,

and I took it and got better for the most part.

2) A week later, feeling at 90%, I got on a plane from the US to Thailand (a

trip which I had planned in March). The air trip was long of course, and after

arriving, I felt sick again, went to a doctor at Bangkok International, and was

told I had tonsillitis. Again, I took antibiotics, kind of got better, but I

traveled to Vietnam and then Cambodia under a sort of strenuous schedule, and

sleepless nights on trains, bus etc, and bad air-conditioning that was spewing

mold.

3) During the 9 week trip, I was sort of run down because of the antibiotic use,

but took something called CellFood which I think helped.

4) Before going to Cambodia a second time during this same nine week travel

period, I went down to Phi Phi and got whipped by a cluster of jellyfish. I was

wearing a stinger shirt but they got me on my neck and leg. It wasn't the end of

the world, but it was a bit painful and red for a while, and it's when I first

really started getting irritated in my neck.

5) I went back to Cambodia on a bus, just to Siem Reap. I returned on a bus as

well via Polpet. The bus broke down, bug spray was in the luggage, and I was

stuck at the border for a rather long time without any protection. Amazingly, I

got stung on my neck, and arms as well, but my neck! After the jellyfish thing.

Same place.

6) 72 hours later, I was on a plane back to the USA. I was sweating on/off, and

having body aches, and at one point, the flight attendants told me I might not

even be able to make it through Japan because I was sweating so much, but it

stopped. I made it home to the midwest, and that seemed the end of it.

7) The fever started up again, for 12 hours a day later, and then stopped. The

pattern happened again, and I freaked out. I started to think it could be

malaria after a search on the internet, and ordered MMS. I took it, per

instructions but was nervous. On the second day of it, I went to see a friend

who is an MD and she ran all the tests: malaria, dengue, SED, even lyme and west

nile, all negative. She said I probably had tonsillitis or a non specific virus

as I had white spots on my right tonsil. I was worn out, as I came home to have

a good friend die 1 day after my return.

8) I continued with the MMS for two weeks and got better!

9) A family member passed away mid October, and again, my health sort of

crumbled with the commotion and upheaval. I did MMS again, and seemed to get

better.

10) A month ago, two more things added to the exhaustion: 2 bats (yes, this is

getting quite crazy) were removed from my bedroom (a major rehabbing project was

going on since June in my attic to convert it to a studio and probably chased

these creatures out of their space into my space) and one appeared sick

according to animal control (don't know what a healthy or sick bat looks like

personally). The county had me, my son, and my husband start the rabies program,

but at the end of the week, when it was determined to be non-rabid, we did not

continue with the series of shots. Around the same week, a legal issue with the

title of our property became an issue, and we needed an attorney (read: hear

slurping sound out of our wallets!)It took a month to resolve, and of course, I

was quite exhausted and stressed, and hate anything that involves an attorney.

11) okay, here, for those that have read this crazy story long enough, is where

I am now. I went to an ENT last Friday because I now have a visible lump on the

right side of my neck maybe almost the size of a lima bean. It's not on the

surface, but sort of protruding from underneath. The doctor wanted me in the

hospital for a biopsy of the lymph node and " we will wait for pathology, and we

will remove anything else at that time if we need to depending on the pathology

people who will report quickly. " The nurse tried to schedule the biopsy, but

couldn't because a huge snow storm headed in our direction, and the hospital was

" preparing for an emergency. " (Maybe I was lucky?!) So they are calling in the

morning (although I have decided I can't even work with a doctor who doesn't

even answer my questions, or generate enough of his own questions!).

12) I am profoundly upset from that visit with the ENT doctor. First of all, he

didn't look in my ear, or my mouth, or draw a blood test, or listen to the fact

that I had seen a here in September, or that I had had all this " atypical "

travel for 9 weeks, or that I had started the rabies vaccination the previous

month. Nothing. He came in, looked at me, told me what he was going to do, and

told me that I needed a biopsy asap today, and then after all that

it-has-to-be-done-now speech, it couldn't even be scheduled, and I have lived in

horrible fear all weekend. I have no words to tell you how much I hate almost

all doctors, mistrust them, etc. stemming from a medical experience 15 years ago

that turned into a horrendous nightmare, and kind of became the impetus for me

to begin to seek ways to heal myself through alternative treatments.

12) So in a few hours, I plan to head out to another city with a major medical

center, to see if in fact, this is something I should be concerned about, and

give me more answers as to why a biopsy has to be done, if indeed it does.

So, personally, I am CONFUSED. I am wondering if I am having a Herx response,

and that is why my lymph node is enlarged. The week before I went to the ENT, I

used MMS with DMSO on my neck of all places, because my throat/ear was still

bothering me and I didn't have an ear infection.

I am still having occasional bouts of sweats at night, but not every night oddly

and it can't be explained by hormones as a horrible accident years ago resulted

in a TAH among other things.

Clearly, something is wrong, and to be honest, I am overwhelmed and frightened.

I don't drink, but I do smoke, and have been trying to quit for some time.

I quit the MMS and started collodial silver (a product called Silver

Fuzion)after coming home on Friday, and have felt better somewhat, but of all

the crazy things, I seem to be having more of a rash at the site of the gland

(again is this a herx??)

I have been taking Curcumin, and the Silver Fuzion.

I am frightened about what it could be, and have a terrible case of " Web MD

Syndrome " as I am wondering if this is something like a lymphoma type of illness

at this point.

I would like to find out what I have, then come home and handle it in a way that

is truly helpful. I am not sure whether to continue with the MMS, the Silver

Fuzion, both, if I should figure out how to alkalize (baking soda? how much

etc.), or what else I should do. I plan to avoid all sugars, tobacco, and figure

out how to do an 80/20 raw food program.

I just don't know what to do going forward. I know a little bit of a number of

things, but I now feel like I have to know it all because it seems like I have a

serious problem. The possibilities of what I have been exposed to are ridiculous

for me to get a handle on because the last 5 months have been so weird, and it

overlapped with doing the MMS anyway, so I don't know if I have something or if

I had something at this point.

I think the big picture is 1) alkalize and 2) no sugar, no meat, and 3) raw

food, and 4) something like MMS (or MMS2?) and silver. Not sure what order these

should be prioritized, or how to do the raw food thing.

I am so frightened and exhausted by all of this that at a time when I need to

focus and take charge of my health, I feel more scattered and overwhelmed than

ever. I need to get healthy from whatever I have, which I hope to know what it

is soon, and then I need to do it in a way that won't leave me screwed over. I'm

not a purist, i.e. if I was really sick I would definitely not dismiss the

possibility of chemo or radiation in the face of a scary diagnosis, but I also

know that some things can get severely worse with such treatments, and I suspect

alternative solutions will help heal me in the long term, and help me survive

treatments that doctors might give to me.

Any insight or suggestions would be appreciated, as well as any links on how to

alkalize do raw food etc. that have been helpful and are simplified. I am

overwhelmed reading www. curezone. com. Too many ideas, too much stuff to pour

through to get to the information I need. I just need things simplified a bit

right now so I can make a plan for myself.

Thanks for reading all of this, and my apologies for the length.

Sincerely,