Bone spurs were NOT the problem

Well even though we were wrong, we were right! Good Luck
Michelle, and keep us informed.

"Mrsg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:<[email hidden]>...

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Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to get a second
opinion when my family doctor diagnosed me with cervical
bone spurs. My complaint had been pain behind and under
the left ear and pain in the back of the neck and head. He
recommended that I take Celebrex and stop running until
the pain was gone. He said that I may have pain for the
rest of my life, or it may be intermittant.

The ENT that I consulted last week found an entirely
different cause for the pain. He found a lump on my left
submandibular gland. This is a gland under the jawline.
The mass is large enough that it is effecting the nerves
that go under and around my ear and across the back of my
head/neck.

I had an MRI last week, and a needle biopsy of the lump
will likely be done this week. The doctor says it may be
an infection, or it may be something more serious. He has
put me on a strong antibiotic in case it's an infection.
If the MRI and biopsy indicate that it needs to be removed
I may be having surgery soon.

All of this is a bit scary, but if I had followed my
family doctor's advice instead of getting a second
opinion, as so many of you suggested, I hate to think of
what might have happened. Masking the pain with the
Celebrex and delaying the discovery of this strange lump
could not have been a good thing. Michelle

And BTW, I too had/have a "lump" that appears when my neck
and shoulders are very badly twisted, but a few cracks by
the chiro and it's gone. Also a few years ago I was
diagnosed with a mass in my ass, about the size of an
orange. Well much to my oncologists chagrin, after I begged
him to recomend a chiro so my ins would pay for it, it
turned out my pelvis was so twisted that it had bunched up a
knot of muscles that upon exam appeared to be a large tumor.
A few cracks and it was gone. I'm not saying this is so with
you, but lets hope it is.

"Mrsg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to get a second
opinion when my family doctor diagnosed me with cervical
bone spurs. My complaint had been pain behind and under
the left ear and pain in the back of the neck and head. He
recommended that I take Celebrex and stop running until
the pain was gone. He said that I may have pain for the
rest of my life, or it may be intermittant.

The ENT that I consulted last week found an entirely
different cause for the pain. He found a lump on my left
submandibular gland. This is a gland under the jawline.
The mass is large enough that it is effecting the nerves
that go under and around my ear and across the back of my
head/neck.

I had an MRI last week, and a needle biopsy of the lump
will likely be done this week. The doctor says it may be
an infection, or it may be something more serious. He has
put me on a strong antibiotic in case it's an infection.
If the MRI and biopsy indicate that it needs to be removed
I may be having surgery soon.

All of this is a bit scary, but if I had followed my
family doctor's advice instead of getting a second
opinion, as so many of you suggested, I hate to think of
what might have happened. Masking the pain with the
Celebrex and delaying the discovery of this strange lump
could not have been a good thing. Michelle

"Mrsg" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

Quoted message said:

Thank you to everyone who encouraged me to get a second
opinion when my family doctor diagnosed me with cervical
bone spurs. My complaint had been pain behind and under
the left ear and pain in the back of the neck and head. He
recommended that I take Celebrex and stop running until
the pain was gone. He said that I may have pain for the
rest of my life, or it may be intermittant.

The ENT that I consulted last week found an entirely
different cause for the pain. He found a lump on my left
submandibular gland. This is a gland under the jawline.
The mass is large enough that it is effecting the nerves
that go under and around my ear and across the back of my
head/neck.

I had an MRI last week, and a needle biopsy of the lump
will likely be done this week. The doctor says it may be
an infection, or it may be something more serious. He has
put me on a strong antibiotic in case it's an infection.
If the MRI and biopsy indicate that it needs to be removed
I may be having surgery soon.

All of this is a bit scary, but if I had followed my
family doctor's advice instead of getting a second
opinion, as so many of you suggested, I hate to think of
what might have happened. Masking the pain with the
Celebrex and delaying the discovery of this strange lump
could not have been a good thing. Michelle

And, of course, you are absolutely certain the second doctor
is right. What if you went to this second doctor in the
first place?