My symptoms were swollen 1 lymph node on the right side that they tried to treat w antibiotics twice, and jaw and ear pain which was diagnosed as TMJ and I was told to wear a mouth guard at night. I had 3 doctors and 2 ENTs look in my throat and none of them noticed anything except one doctor said my throat was "a little red". The pain was not constant, it was an ache when I had it. Also I was having taste bud issues for months, sometimes I could not taste things.


AGE 38 10-2012 thru 3-2012 swollen lymph node,painful jaw and ear,2 antibiotics,X-ray,CAT scan,needle biopsy,scope, no answers
3-4-13 tonsillectomy and selective neck dissection, DX R tonsil SCC,METS to 1 lymph node,BOT,HPV+, stage IV
TX 35 RAD,3 chemo cisplatin/Taxol started 4-8-13
rad end 5-29-13