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@concernodules

I feel as though I've been given a Runaround, as my discouragement has lead for ME to reach out on my own.
The week before Thankgiving, my throat was so soar; i feel like i loat some of my Voice. Because time is precious, I went to a CHI Clinic.
She couldn't believe how my tonsils looked. Strep Test came up negative. She diagnosed me with Tonsillitis and made prescription for Amoxicillin.
2 weeks later, when I felt like I should be Pain-free, I decided to see if my Reg Doc could see me.
He, too, was surprised with my tonsils (especially since I was already supposed to be Better with the Amox.) He said that her get me on something a bit atronger: Clindamycin.
After 2 weeks, I feel as though I SHOULD have been dancing. I was NOT.
I told them, via phone, that it feel as though I had something in my throat, that irritates and keeps me up at night. I could during the day and have some major cough attacks at night. They sent foe me to have an MRI on Dec 10th. Result on Monday: calcified nodule, which appears to be the same size as it was in a 2014 biopsy (yes. I've had this irritation for some time.), but it has since "calcified". They informed me that may be why it's bothering me now. They said that IF I want something more done or for someone took at it, to give them a call back. I waited a day to see IF I was just being a 'baby' OR if I really should get some Answers. Here's the run around: oncology won't see me because the Chart mentions "thyroid". And, Head and Neck doesn't seem to want to see me because it mentions "calcified nodules". BOTH are suggesting that I see the other. 😔
WtHeck?!? Can someone, HERE, tell me that I'm "just fine" or if they think I should be seen???
(FYI: The pic is what I took after 1 week of being on the Antibiotics.)
Thanks for ANY and ALL help.

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Hello @concernodules and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Your situation sounds both painful as well as frustrating! You seem to have really worked to get a diagnosis and some help without getting much help.

You mention having seen a regular doctor as well as a clinic doctor. Have you seen any specialists? Since you mention a thyroid problem, have you seen an endocrinologist? What about an ENT specialist?

If you have been seen by specialists, I might recommend that you go to a multi-disciplinary health center like a university medical school or a facility like Mayo Clinic. These types of health care centers have a better handle on difficult-to-diagnose problems because they are generally research-oriented, and they also see a lot of patients with a variety of problems, which smaller hospital systems and general doctors do not see.

Have you been to a center like this?

@concernodules, I can understand your frustration at getting the runaround with the 2 departments telling you to seek a consult with another. Clearly you would like to be seen by a specialist like an ENT doc, endocrinologist or oncologist. Might you be able to write to the patient relations or patient experience office at CHI Clinic and ask them to mediate?