Hodgkin Disease Symptoms
Hodgkins Disease is a type of cancer that attacks the white blood cells. Like any other disease it does have symptoms, if you have nay of these symptoms please see your doctor, early detection is the best way to fight it. Swollen lymph nodes are the most common sign but they are painless, they may be swollen but you feel no pain. What normally happens is that when the lymph nodes are fighting off an infection or virus the lymph nodes become swollen which is normal. So what you have to watch out for are swollen lymph nodes without any infection or virus.
You may also experience other symptoms such as coughing and shortness or breath and maybe some abdominal pain and swelling. Lymph nodes that surround the diaphragm are the ones that become cancerous which would explain the abdominal pain. You may also experience Horner’s Syndrome which is a neurological affliction that does affect the eyes and face. You may also experience nerve pain and some leg swelling.
Other symptoms may include bone pain, some people think they would not recognize bone pain but the pain can be hard to take so in that instance you would know what bone pain is. You may feel pain in the lymph nodes after consuming alcohol. You may wake up in the middle of the night covered with night sweats, all over body itching and you may be more prone to getting infections.
If those symptoms, you don’t recognize then you should call your doctor if you notice your lymph nodes are swollen but there is no pain at all and you feel healthy. If you have a fever though you feel ok but in the interims of taking your temperature combined with fever you will see periods of normal temps and then higher temperature. Erratic body temperature.
If you lose 10 percent of your body weight without trying. If you start getting sick a lot more than you ever have. About a third of people who actually have this disease may notice other symptoms in addition to the ones we mention, fatigue being one of them.
Other symptoms may include enlarged organs such as the spleen or even the liver but only 5 percent of people who have Hodgkins actually experience the enlarged liver.
Sometimes these symptoms will point to Hodgkins and then again they may not. But the key to proper diagnosis is to tell your doctor exactly what you are feeling, don’t leave anything out it may make a huge difference.
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