does anybody kow how I can get tested for oral cancer? I have no insurance. I have had a sore throat for some time now but the seriousness of the issue has always been misguided due to blaming it on crappy tonsils. I have had pain atw mid neck, I get these spells where throat burns to breathe in and now its gotten serious. Since I moved back home to Fl. My left lymph node on the side or back of neck has been swollen sending sharp pains to back of neck. Then my tonsils began looking even more ugly. swollen. crypted. mucousy. whitish. red bumps on back wall of throat. red patches still there. and white "injected" pus in the walls . on top of that two days ago the papillae on the back f my tounge was really swollen and painful and it felt like glassto swallow. now ive gotwhite bumps or swollen taste buds traveling anteriorly down my tounge. spicy food which I love burns my tounge too much to eat now. I had an encounter with someone with HPV a few years ago and did have relations with him underestimating the severity and lacked all education on the subject as far as oral anything goes. Anyway... since then ive had "crappy tonsils".
I don't have insurance. I am staying temporarily in south Fl. until I can get onmy feet. I live in the mid west and confused my throat problems with paranoid assumptions. I ended up getting a spinal tap in an er for viral meningitis. Again I did not know enough about it.. got it done, and went back with a worse h/a. They told me I needed a blood patch. Blood from the arm to seal a leak in spinal fluid to clog it and relieve the headache.
what worries me is if its cancer did I just move it to my spine?
Also how will I ever get diagnosed without insurance? Given the bmps on my tounge, and my throat being the wayit is my lymph swollen should I try to go to the er? If so,.. Should there be a specific er I should be going? '
I don't have much time before I have to make x amount of money to get back to the mid west to appear in court... shouldn't be jail time though.. unless I don't show. PLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLsss any one help me, again I don't have insurance or money and on a deadline and probably running out of time too