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So my health anxiety is over mouth cancer with that being said a month ago I brushed my tongue against my upper lip and felt a lump. I had instant increase in heart rate instant panic. But I was being seen by a ent in a couple days to so I showed her. She said some people have these bumps and it's nothing to worry about. Now i am so obsessed with I am constantly looking to see if I see anything. And it hurts now because I keep feeling it constantly. Well tonight I could see it had a kind of white spot on it. So freak out again! I am constantly going from 0 to 100 on the scare scale. Anyone else have anything else like this so I try to tell my self I am fine once again. I am always looking for reassurance. And I can't leave it alone.

I'm 23 years old and have smoked cigars occassionally, smoked cigarettes occassionally (sometimes chain smoking them) and used snuff for a period of 5 years or so. Ive smoked the cigars and cigarettes for maybe 3 of those years. Lastly for maybe the last year or so I've done some mild to moderate drinking once or twice a week. The major part of my tobacco usage was the snuff, with the worst of my habit being in 2014, when I was consuming up to half of a tin a day. Since 2014 i cut back to maybe 2 to 4 dips a day, some days i would not use at all. About 10 days ago I quit cold turkey due to reading some rather frightening material about smokeless tobaccos effects. I'm now having some severe anxiety over what I've potentially done to myself and may even be dealing with some hypocondria type symptoms. I've been to the doctor as of Wednesday with some neck pain, earache and a feeling of one side of my throat, like my tonsil area, feeling swollen when I swallow & told him for the first time about my tobacco use and he claims my mouth tissue looks very healthy. He looked into my throat and felt my neck and did not find anything suspicious but did not scope my throat. My throat isnt sore nor am i hoarse or anything like I'm horrified of what could be as I cannot tell if my symptoms are real or imagined, I've been googling non stop about it and I'd like to ask anyone that could help me with this, what are the odds of cancer of the throat or someplace like that given my past usage tally??

Hi everyone , I posted here a few weeks ago thinking I had oral cancer because of a small flesh colored bump I saw on my tonsil , and the back of my throat looked strange . I got over that fear, and thought I had oral thrush so I went to a doctor . My doctor barely looked in my mouth and rudely dismissed my fear about oral thrush . My tongue looked a little white and so did My throat, but unfortunately she was rude and didn't take the time to check . She said since it wasn't painful, bleeding and ALL over my mouth, that it wasn't thrush. Just for added rude effect, she pulled up pictures of really bad thrush to rub in my face . The back of my tongue looks a little thrushy, but it's hard to see back that far and I feel no pain . I didn't have time to go back to the doctor because I was going on vacation. Fast forward a week and a half and I'm in full fledged panic mode . I wholeheartedly believe I have cancer . The back of my throat just looks .. strange . It looks kinda white, and it looks like it has reddish bumps on it as well . I look at it everyday , and my mind MAY be playing tricks on me but it looks like it slightly changes everyday . Like I said , my mind could be playing tricks on me because I compulsively check it every hour. The roof of my mouth has a whitish symmetrical tint, although that could've been there . I'm just devasted . I'm a 19 year old female . I've never smoked . I've only gotten drunk ONCE in my life , and I'm in a monogamous relationship with my boyfriend. I've given him oral sex only a handful of times , but I'm afraid those few times were all it took for me to contract HPV and for it to progress into cancer . I was on the gardisil shot, but I never got the 3rd dose because this is around the time stories were surfacing of young women having adverse reactions to the last dose and being permanently handicapped . I freaked out . I have no risk factors for oral cancer except for the few times I engaged in oral sex . I'm deathly terrified to go back to the doctor because I just know they're going to tell me it's cancer , and it's insane because I barely have any risk factors. I lost my grandfather to throat cancer, but he smoked and drank . I do neither . I'm just scared . I'm so young and I don't engage in activities that others do at my age because I'm simply not interested . Does this sound like cancer? like obviously I need to go back to the doctor , but I would like to hear from some real life people who have compassion, experience and aren't being paid to tell me "you're fine " just to get their check... I was doing so well with my anxiety and this just knocked me back down..

Hi everyone, I posted here a few days ago thinking I had oral cancer. I got over that fear, and now I think I have oral thrush. For about a week, the area near my soft palate has felt dry, and sometimes burned when I swallowed. I thought it was a sinus issue at first, because I was having a sensation of post nasal drip, although I barely have any mucus in my nose and throat. I also noticed the roof of my mouth has a symmetrical white tint to it , but I didn't pay it much attention. I was looking around in my mouth today, and it looks like my throat has white patches on it. White patches on throat, roof of mouth looks white.... sounds like oral thrush. I use an inhaler because I had a lung surgery last year, and I use it pretty often. Could I have gotten oral thrush from that? and how is the testing for oral thrush done? will they have to swab my throat? I have an awful gag reflex and I don't know if I can handle that. Also, is oral thrush fatal or serious if left untreated? My symptoms started about a week ago, and my mom won't take me to urgent care tonight. Shes telling me to make an appointment tomorrow, but I dont know if I can get in soon enough, or if my results will come back before June 29th when I leave for vacation. I've had vacation plans months in advance, and if I have to miss them for a diagnosis, I'll be upset, but health comes first...

Hi everyone, new here! I'm a 19 year old girl, and as of late, my already existent anxiety has been exacerbated by some mouth symptoms. It started about a week and a half ago when I noticed a flesh colored bump on my pataglossal arch, in front of my tonsil. Naturally I turned to Dr. Google, and what did it say? Cancer. So I freaked out all night, only to wake up and see the bump was gone. I felt pretty foolish considering I just about cried over this small lump. Fast forward a few days, I'm poking around in my mouth again (I never learn) and I see a flesh colored lump on my left tonsil. Here we go again. Google says cancer, my brain says cancer, obviously I'm dying right? So I did some more poking around and realized the roof of my mouth has a whitish symmetrical tint to it (could've been like that my whole life, but brain says oral cancer), my right tonsil has two tiny flesh colored bumps on it, along with the larger one on my left, the left side of my throat hurts when I swallow (which HAS happened before, just not in conjunction with these other symptoms), and I've got a new symptom which is a little hard to describe. The area in the back of your mouth where your nose meets your throat above your uvula feels dry. It's not pain, but it does feel kinda dry when i breathe in through my nose. I have an office job, and the AC is always on full blast, and I also sleep with my AC on at night because I sweat terribly. I drink nothing but water, and that's not helping the sensation. I had slight post nasal drip, but my nose and throat are completely clear now so I don't know whats going on. If I focus on the dry feeling enough, it makes me feel like I can't breathe. Does anyone else suffer from this? and do my other symptoms sound like oral cancer? I should also mention I'm in a 2 year monogamous relationship, and we've both recently began engaging n oral sex, so I'm worried that I may have gotten oral cancer from HPV because I know that's a possibility. I sing, and I had a grandparent who passed away from oral cancer that eventually spread to the throat. He was a smoker and a drinker (I do neither) but I'm just scared and I would like to know if anyone else could relate in any way or help me out? Some people on other forums I've posted on aren't too nice, so I'd like to see how things go here.

I'm feeling panicked for the first time in a long time. I woke up this morning and felt swelling on a part of my lip that I've had trouble with for a few years. In 2011 I developed a bad habit of biting that part of my lips during the winter, as the skin was dry and chapped. This habit continued over the next winter. During the winter of 2013 I tried hard to stop biting, and was mostly successful, but by this point I was getting calluses on that spot. Even this year, all year, the calluses have come up, gotten flaky, and fallen off. I've also had aching pain in that area, inside the lip. And now the swelling. It's hard to see, but I can feel it, and it feels different in that area too, the same feeling you get with a cold sore. I told my dermatologist and dentist about the biting habit, the calluses, and the aching pain in that area, but neither thought anything of it. This morning I happen to have a routine cleaning scheduled with my dentist, so I'll mention this to her. I'm terrified it's c****r. Does anyone know of a case where lip biting became a health problem, like c****r? Should I ask my dentist to take a biopsy? How should I handle this? Any and all advice and reassurance is appreciated!!