
Originally Posted by
jocular
I am deeply grateful for your reply. My direct, decisive, and belligerent attitude is often taken, I have little doubt, for the ranting of a near-lunatic, this fact surely not encouraging worthiness of consideration. However, most who know me ignore that side, and discover another which somehow appeals, I think.
See, doubting "Thomas" that I am, "has NOT been shown to increase the incidence of metastasis", but, has attempt been made to SHOW that it has? Your own, personal writing as a perhaps Medico (?) suggests intensive study of things at the cellular level of size, the astronomical numbers involved, the constant movement of bodily fluids, lymph, chyle, blood, which prompts me personally to believe that maybe, deep down, you yourself might harbor some doubt about the effects of biopsy other than the beneficial ones--- No?
Sorry if my rant implied it was in response to worry over biopsy performed; it has not yet been done! (yet). Nor has it been suggested, since my last office visit with a new P.C.P. failed to include palpation under my jawbone, though he palpated everything else possible, to my disdain, as I already KNEW I have no hernia, BPH, etc. And I neglected, on purpose, to mention the swollen lymph node, thinking I would seek as many opinions as possible first, and research the question of joint deterioration debris as a cause. R.A. is mentioned as a possible cause in the link provided by Scheherazade.
The neck pain is unignorably severe, quite localized, and turning my head very far results in crackling sounds there, more "feelable" than audible, as I'm almost deaf, to boot! So, at least one vertebra is crunching away, I think. The only testing done was general in nature, CBC, PSA, Echo-Cardiogram, all routine, not in response to any symptom, other than my alcohol consumption, which has brought about ( I guess) elevated GGT, which I told the Dr. to expect, and he shrugged it off immediately, before knowing any actual numbers, saying if the other enzymes are acceptable, don't worry about it (they were). Even that remark, I question in my mind, as liver enzyme elevation is not thusly explained by medical sites. (GGT was 124, range 10-75).
So I have lifted the one "foot in the grave" mentally back up onto firm ground, looking for info, worrying, being active, cussing, and drinking (!). jocular