Hi everyone,
Just a little about me. I am a single mother to 3 great kiddos. I have an 18 year old daughter, 12 year old son and 9 year old daughter.

Back at the beginning of March I started having to clear my throat a lot due to phlem..I didn't think anything of it because I usually do not get sick and when I do I can usually take an antihistamine and it's gone the next day. However this time it stuck around and then a week later I developed smalls viral bumps on the roof of my mouth and had a sore throat for a week thereafter. I ended up going to the Dr. who thought that I had Strep throat or the flu and so they tested me for both came back negative. So he decided to put me on antibiotics anyway. Antibiotics ended up not helping and I called the Dr. who then put me on Prednisone. I took all of that and it helped a while until after I ran out and then I felt worse than ever. Very bad sore throat came back along with a sore tongue in the back part on both sides. I went back to the Dr. who again tested me for Flu, Mono and Strep and all were once again negative. The Dr. is stumped at this point and put me back on another round of antibiotics and steroids. Again, after all of this I was back to feeling extremely bad again. Sore throat, sore tongue and I started developing ear aches. I decided I had enough and called the Dr to refer me to an ENT in my area. I went in and they checked my throat and he said I had a little bit of displasia in the back of my throat but nothing to be concerned about. He checked my ears and nose and nothing looked out of the norm he said. He did set me up for an allergy test and that is coming up soon. I have a cat that we got about a year ago but he doesn't seem to think it's allergies from the cat as this should have started right when I got her. However, I'm still scheduled for it but since we literally have no allergist in my area except one I can't get in until July.

I also had a cancer scan of my entire mouth by my dentist and everything came back normal although I'm not sure if he actually scanned my tongue since he wrapped it and was pulling it side to side to look at my mouth.

So I kept going for another week thinking well maybe it's all in my head but the ear aches, sore throat, and tongue continued to hurt and I felt like I was eating Tylenol like candy. So I made an appt with another ENT that had very good ratings a couple of hours away from me. He scoped my throat and scheduled me for an ultrasound of my neck. The scope ended up showing nothing and the ultrasound came back showing only swollen lymph nodes. But they didn't seem to concerned about the lymph nodes. But I am just wondering what is causing these? I feel like it has to be something and I'm really scared.

So I went another week and now there is pain not only in my ears, my throat, my tongue but also my neck and jaw. I tried calling the ENT back that is a couple of hours away..left a couple of messages and still have not received a call back. I am really worried and I feel like if this is cancer it could be spreading at a rapid rate. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could do to get additional testing and quick? The ENT that was here in town doesn't seem to want to help at all and the only other ENT's that are in town are in the same ENT's office.

Thank you all in advance for any suggestions and just for your support. Hope everyone is doing well.

-Dream