You should check with a different ENT. Or go to an ER and tell them of your symptoms. They work with people with no insurance and they have programs that help wipe your hospital bills clean!

BTW, it is totally possible that this is not cancer, don't give up on it so easily!! A hard lump on ur nose can be many things, and the stuff going on inside ur mouth can be many things as well!!

You can't just say, i have this this and this going on, so i will read the internet, and go with what looks to be most fitting!! Its not how it works, and often the internet is wrong! You might be getting yourself all worked up over nothing!!

You need to be seen by a doctor, I suggest a ENT but at least go to ER and start there if you are so worried about no insurance and what not!!

Also check with your county about possible health insurance programs!! Here in minnesota, we have a few different options for low income people to get health insurance through the county!!

How silly are you going to feel if you get ur "things in order" and nothing happens? or you get them in order, and go in and find out that the thing on ur nose is nothing but just hardening tissue, and you have a combination of acid reflux and maybe an infection in your mouth??? You owe it to yourself to get checked out!!

Oh and by the way, I had a lot of your symptoms that you have in your mouth before my cancer, and yes, it was all due to acid reflux from my hiatal hernia!! So go get checked out!!


25/female at diagnosis
Dx;stage 3 SCC tongue 03/25/2010
Surgery 04/13/2010
Trach,ng tube, peg feeding tube
Hemiglossectomy, right side neck dissection, 40 lymph nodes removed. Free-Flap transplant to tongue.
30 rounds IMRT ended July 15,2010