Anxiety, health
So after BLFC, I used a qtip wrong and pushed some earwax in. I've also had a bump under the skin behind my jaw on the right side. I finally messaged the doctor about these things and he told me to come in.
I am trying my hardest not too panic about worst case scenarios.
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As an update, went to the doctor. Doctor said bump was just a cyst. He cleaned out my ear and said everything was good. So everything is good again. Anxiety is relieved.
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@xurnami *sending huuuugs*
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@xurnami I suspect they just want to look at the bump and probably just irrigate the earwax out of your ear. (Been through that procedure. It feels weird but it’s not painful in the slightest)
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@xurnami Oh, man, I just had an oral cancer scare of my own recently. *hug* If it's any consolation, it turned out fine for me, and I got a bit of a friendly lecture from the dentist about JUST HOW MANY other things can cause little bumps or sores in there. Good luck, hun!
(Also, yeah, impacted earwax is something I've had on and off all my life and that's generally SUPER easy to treat, though the peroxide treatments I would get felt SUPER funky afterwards...)
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@xurnami that sounds like a swollen lymph node, which would fit ear stuff. Hopefully this is minor but irritating and too difficult to resolve at home, so I think it’ll be okay.
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@xurnami hooray!! glad that went well :D
Anxiety, health, familial abuse/trauma.
Part of what makes this all worse is that my family conditioned me to never go to the doctor for anything. Not for financial reasons as we had money but because of narcissism.
I had athsma at 16 due to the shitty air quality where I lived and didn't get diagnosed until closer to 18 by it finally becoming too much. When I blew on the flow meter, it didn't move. This trauma tomy lungs makes colds like a two week long affair.