I asked Dr Google and now I'm scared... Please reassure me that it's likely something else!

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For a few weeks I've had really awful fatigue. I thought I'd experienced fatigue before but this is on another level - you could tell me there's a million pounds at the bottom of the garden and I wouldn't go and get it, when it's at its worst. At its best I'll manage five minutes on my feet and then I'm wiped out. It's completely unlike me.

I have found various swollen lymph nodes including one really strange one - the occipital one on one side at the back of my head. I didn't even know there was a lymph node there before this. Also my armpit and around my collarbone. They're hard, don't move, painless.

I am having random fevers on and off (no rhyme or reason to the timing but at least twice a day) where I am boiling hot, feet and hands are freezing, or alternatively I feel freezing but my husband feels my back and I'm burning.

The night sweats. Oh my God. I'm having to wake up and shower and change in the night because I'm drenched. Doesn't matter what I do, I wake up and I feel like I'm in a puddle. I've never had this before.

I thought it was early menopause but I'm 30 and don't have any of the other symptoms of it. I googled and immediately wished I hadn't; it said with my age the most likely diagnosis would be Hodgkin Lymphoma (followed by TB??).

Please reassure me that this could be something like glandular fever or something, I know the symptoms aren't good and I've never felt so ill in my life so I could do without the nerves! I was diagnosed with a low grade brain tumour a couple of years ago and that diagnosis completely blindsided me, which is why I googled so I'd be prepared for the doctors, but God I wish I hadn't 😅

I'll be making a GP appointment on Tuesday but could do with reassurance until then!

I was like this with hypothyroidism, before I was diagnosed and put on medication I mean.
I hope the dr can reassure you and arrange blood tests to figure out what’s going on & you soon feel better

So I went to the GP and was feeling really reassured as he said the swollen lymph node wasn't a lymph node... Then he went and got another GP to look at the lump for an opinion on what it was and the GP went "oh, that's a swollen lymph node".

So I'm back to worrying again. I'm being referred for bloods and a chest x ray. Still waking up in the night drenched in sweat. Still having random fevers. Still terrified.

It's good that you have a referral.

Don't forget covid. I had symptoms like that with old-school 2020 covid.

No good ever came of going to google.

How many completely innocent answers did you get there? Or did you just hone on in on the most terrifying one.

Wait for the bloods etc to come back and stay away from google.

And tbh MN isn’t the greatest source either because you’ll get people who’ll tell you their horror stories and others who will reassure you that you’re fine, and nobody knows.

I had this with Covid earlier this year.

it was a beast.

It is probably covid or a random virus.

It's probably not anything anyone above can say, I'm going through exactly the same op and it needs investigating but just take each thing a step at a time and do not google. Try to box time into chunks and carry on as normal as you can. I've had a few big wobbles.

I had COVID at the beginning of 20, before it was really being publicised.
Boiling hot, absolutely exhausted. Swollen. For about three weeks.
It sounds like a really bad flu or the type of COVID that happened before the vaccines?
Please don't panic. It's almost certainly not life threatening.
I hope they find out how to help you and you feel better soon. X

All the docs are out today

Sorry what do you mean?

None, that's the thing! It's all jumped straight past the normal stuff and gone straight to lymphoma, with TB as a secondary option.

In fairness, I wish I'd googled before the brain tumour diagnosis as being totally swept off my feet by it made it even more traumatic. I think that's why I went to Google this time.

I was also going to say covid. Do you think it might have started with that? Very similar to my own symptoms, in particularly mimicking or triggering menopause symptoms. Apparently it's a 'thing'.

Thanks all. I've had COVID a few times and never had the night sweats, and when I had a fever with COVID it was persistent rather than on and off and seemingly random. It could be a different strain though so I'll keep that in mind!

You’ll just need to wait for the blood work and other tests, I can only imagine how stressed you feel but neither a stranger on Mumsnet or dr Google can diagnose you.

it could be covid, it could be glandular fever, could even be early onset of menopause, so all things which though not nice, aren’t unusual and can all be dealt with. The other thing that sprung to mind with the twice a day sudden fever spikes is AOSD. Again, not a pleasant thing to deal with but not life threatening.

Easier said than done but try to keep busy until the tests give you more information.

Thanks all - going to try and keep myself mentally busy and not think about things I can't control or change. Easier said than done but will do my best to step away from Google 😅

Just wanted to update this in case anyone is ever searching because of their own symptoms and worried - I've had a call from my GP today, bloods have confirmed glandular fever! That explains why I'm still so bloody tired 🤣

Thanks again all for the reassurance and suggestions.

Google can feck off.
I had a lump on my knee, google said "sarcoma" which is a deadly form of soft tissue cancer.
MRI showed that it was cyst full of fluid due to a torn ligament.
I'm so done with Google. It just promotes health anxiety.

As a Cancer Survivor ,I am trying to wean myself off of googling anything! A McMillan Nurse told me esp to stay away from American sites (She was American LOL).Had been a Nursing Sister on a Cancer ward in leading London hospital for 20 years!

Oh that’s miserable but glad it’s not something worse.

only just seen this thread OP but I had those exact symptoms when I had glandular fever. Sorry I didn’t see it earlier so I could help to reassure you!