Ripely sorry don't be offended, a month can be the difference between living or dying with this cancer. Think I'm being a drama queen ? I'm not - I had a clear scan on the 21 of December indicating that the cancer hadn't spread and was only In my tongue - by dec the 27 I felt a lymph node pop up in my neck - under my chin, by the time the dr removed it a month later it was 1.6 cm and the cancer had leaked outside the node into the surrounding tissue and my cancer was well to moderately differentiated - in other words it was at the most moderately aggressive (poorly differentiated is highly aggressive) I was blessed in that my surgeon is top in his field, and got it all - but because of that month (lymph node) I had to do radiation and chemo -
There are two things to note here - this cancer can be highly aggressive and spread quickly, and in younger people it tends to be very aggressive. Seeing an ENT and getting a dx is of the utmost importance. When it comes to expense, its far more expensive to have to have surgery and rads and chemo, than just a biopsy or even surgery - so even if it costs 5000 dollars to see a specialist, I think your life is worth that.
Im blessed to live in canada and we have social medicine, but if i didn't I and i had no insurance, a job or money, I would still get my butt into the drs. as soon as possible if I thought for a moment I had cancer.