Thank you... how old are you if you don't mind me asking? I am finding more and more young people being diagnosed with oral cancer. I am back to the suspicions of my original posts... I think it started as HPV in the throat, developed into cancer and possibly is spreading to my lungs. Someone said they hadn't heard of lung cancer without first having lymphatic cancer but isn't it possible I have that and it just wasn't diagnosed...

Back in 2000 I was telling the doctors I felt something in my lymph nodes, a tingling that didn't go away for a long time and a tightness which I still have... I'm not saying I had cancer then, obviously left untreated I'd be dead by now as mentioned before, but I think what I felt was the HPV and now after all these years it's developed into cancer... a major sign of this change being the lesion on my uvula I just had removed... I'm thinking there could be lesions like these all down my throat...

I had a chest x-ray done and the doctor said the results were normal... ok so there's no tumors in my lungs, but something is going on in my chest, I don't think it's stress. Maybe it is my lymphatic system, sometimes the pain travels down my arms to my elbows. Or, on a lighter note, maybe what I have is only HPV running through my lymphatic system, not cancer, and the lesion on my uvula was a wart, and there are skin cell changes happening in my chest and that's why it hurts...

I know I must sound crazy... but really when you think about it doesn't it make sense that this IS HPV and could possibly be cancer. My ENT doc is so sure that it's not, I don't understand why he doesn't see the connection... my tonsils swelled up right at the time acquired genital HPV, I had oral sex with this person..?! He doesn't seem to think anything of it.