For 100 TGC I will ship you 5 dried tabasco peppers! (In the US).

Yeah, if it's anything, it's oral.
I've smoked cigarettes for a couple of years many years earlier. I've only used chewing tobacco once. It has been painful for many days, I haven't counted exactly but It will be way more than two weeks on the 26th so if the pain doesn't stop and the thing doesn't go away that is when I'll be going to the doctor. If it stops I'll be going February/March. It's painful and immensely annoying but the pain isn't becoming stronger or anything. It hasn't always been painful and I hadn't noticed the lump although there where some things that looked like normal tongue geometry on each side of the base of my tongue. This thing is on one side even further.

The lump is about half an inch across. Although I can't really see of it because to see it, I have to dry my tongue and gently kind of pull it out.

The most likely diagnosis would be canker sore because of the white color. Cancer is most likely red or red with white specs. Canker sores are also known to hurt like hell. Cancer is something only a professional can diagnose. In my case I will wait until 2 weeks have passed which is what the general consensus is and then get it checked out. If it's a canker sore at this point they'll give me something to make it go away faster.

Now it seems like one of my cervical lymph nodes (left side nearly directly below the ear) is getting swollen and a little bit painful.) Swollen lymph nodes happen with canker sores.

So, if it keeps up for 9 more days, I'm going to the doctor.

Beetcoin, don't worry I'm unaffected by hippie advice when it comes to matters of health. I'm not one to wear a crystal and drink extremely diluted onion juice. The people who believe water has memory are ridiculous. I love what Tim Minchin says about that. I'm not sure I can remember it verbatim Through the magic of the internet I found the lyrics: "And whilst its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice is infinite
It somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it!"

This forum is pretty awesome, technical discussions about BTC, trading, novelty products, crypto announcements, millions of dollars of pizza, and now a thread about a potential oral cancer. This thread is a little too Off-topic even for the Off-topic category.
TheGr33k, what kind of cancer did they think your son had? Are you in Greece? If so where, I'm also from there!

I think the brush technique with biopsies is not a standalone one. The other two either include cell aspiration with a needle (pulling the cells with a needle from various places to get a good sample) and a microscopic round cutter that removes a plug of cells. All those newer methods heal right up. My stepfather always gets murdered when they get biopsies from him though so that makes me wonder.

The area can also be tested for certain kinds of bacteria which thrive on cancer cells. I have the theory that if someone's nose and eyes where trained enough, a cancer patient could spit in a cup and let the bacteria stay overnight and then just by looking at and smelling (yucky I know) you could test for cancer. Kind of like trained service dogs can smell a seizure coming in or certain kinds of cancer.

I've only smoked for a couple of years, I'm not a smoker, most likely it's not cancer. The pain is bad though and the general consensus is if something like that doesn't heal within 14 days you should get it checked out. By the color of it, it is most likely not a cancer. As I'm looking into it, it seems less likely than it did in the start. I'm also finding out that different foods have different effects on the pain.

If I eat nearly any spicy food the pain subsides for a couple of hours.

The most painful food is nutella. It's not easy to tell but I think I'm getting better. The lump seems smaller I've had it longer than I can recall. While this is very unlikely to be a cancer this has been all in all a positive experience. Now I now that oral cancer is a very common one. Every single hour a person dies because of it. And what to do about it. If the pain subsides before the 26th, and I hope it will I'll see my dentist on February or March. Other than that trained professionals are pretty good at guessing which is which but I don't have that kind of knowledge.

One surprising detail that I've found is that HPV 17, could be the primary cause of that cancer so oral sex may increase your chances of getting oral cancer 6-fold. I have to say I'm guilty of it but I don't think she had any disease, so it's probably not that. Smoking is also a big factor. Something else that may be of interest is that throat cells (cells in the esophagus) are very good at killing cancer via programmed cell death (autophagy). There are evolutionary traits that help certain parts of humans be more resistant to cancer either by the autophagy just mentioned or if we think about our skin as having a shield for harmful radiation (although this is fighting a cause and not a cancer) and the inside of the mouth seems to be an ideal spot for the body to put on a fight.

Then again there is this bit of text (which I picked since my problem is at the very side of the tongue which is more like tissue from the esophagus rather then the one found on the tongue) :

Cancers of the esophagogastric region are highly malignant tumors with five-year survival rates of less than 16%.1 Research has shown that 88% of patients, selected for curative resection for esophagogastric cancer, already have disseminated tumor cells,2 that can remain dormant for variable periods, before emerging as aggressive, drug-resistant metastases.3 Improved systemic therapeutic options are therefore required to effectively eliminate primary and recurrent esophageal cancer.

http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/dgozuacik/selected-publications/files/2009/01/2004-oncogene-review3.pdf (pretty old document on autophagy (2004) I love autophagy, like our cells have a protocol for cannibalizing themselves.

I'm definitely eating healthier. I wonder If I can test myself using a microscope by just brushing out a few cells. As I said in a previous post, due to the color of the thing it's probably not cancerous. It's most likely a bad canker sore. I've never personally had one of those. The pain is very annoying still though. It switching from burning to stabbing sometimes.

Something to note, I eat hot stuff. Right after I ate some spiced up food, there was less pain for a while which was surprising.

Some people have it worse than I, one of my favorite artists on YouTube, Dan Bull has audiovisual problems (hearing cracks constantly and eye pain) and as he noted he is an audiovisual artist. It would totally suck to be a professional taster and then get this thing.

That's the video he made about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFRGPe04kjQ

Personally I always like to self diagnose and treat. When my big toe broke, I fixed it myself, same when I broke the smallest toe too. When I broke my nose, I went to the hospital. I'm originally from Greece where there is universal healthcare. Here in the US, a doctor checked me and the hospital charged us over 1,000 dollars which made no sense to me. They didn't even have to do anything to my nose, it healed on its own.

If I read a couple of books, I'm sure I can get a small biopsy or a couple of cells and test them under the microscope. So I'll know even before I get to a doctor (if the pain stays past December 26 that is)




Above is what I'd be looking for.

I could totally Walter White it! The only problem is I don't know how to cook meth.

I guess I could grow some marijuana in my closet and use the cancer fighting properties as well as the income from growing marijuana. (For any authorities lurking around here, sticking your noses where they don't belong, know that I am joking).

Happy holidays!

I'd like to let this thread die (ha!) for 10 days or until I know what I have with certainty! If anyone else is also looking for cancer at the time (chances are, with so many users on bitcointalk someone will be) we can start a group.

If the lump is malignant I think my parents and health insurance will cover it, I won't need any donations. If you have any experience with this I'd appreciate it if you'd share it here!

Thank you, I'll just fix that now!

Now finding 131 blocks of transaction history...

I wonder what made the data corrupt on my PC.

There seem to be no blocks found at all for more than 4 hours network wide.....

This is the data:


17:38:19

getmininginfo


17:38:19

{
"blocks" : 96,
"currentblocksize" : 3499,
"currentblocktx" : 6,
"difficulty" : 0.00000932,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespermin" : 0.54315519,
"pooledtx" : 6,
"testnet" : false
}


17:38:53

getdifficulty


17:38:53

0.00000932


17:38:57

getdifficulty


17:38:57

0.00000932


19:22:02

getdifficulty


19:22:02

0.00000932


19:36:24

getmininginfo


19:36:24

{
"blocks" : 96,
"currentblocksize" : 3499,
"currentblocktx" : 6,
"difficulty" : 0.00000932,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 4,
"hashespermin" : 0.39555267,
"pooledtx" : 6,
"testnet" : false
}



Does it mean what I think it means?

0.54 Hashes per minute, how do I stack up?

My favorite part has to be the holidays... No school! (Or for me, college!)

If I have it, it's almost the same thing that killed my grandmother. Where it may be is a very good spot though. Medical technology nowadays is great too. The only really annoying thing is the pain. When I swallow, pain. When I move my tongue, pain, when I try to sleep, pain.

I consider myself as a person with a very high pain tolerance. I have passed the ice-water bucket test from mythbusters and I consume more spicy food than anyone I know. What helps more with pain is to acknowledge and rationalize it.

Still it's very early to tell.

Thank you for your time here everyone. I can't believe there has been absolutely 0 trolling.

I'll come back to this thread when I find out if I have cancer conclusively.

Thanks for the uplifting stuff. I got to mention I have bipolar-disorder so it's a pretty tough life anyway, cancer may just be a little cherry-on-top.

I just hope I don't have it though. If I do I'll donate the majority of my bitcoins to cancer research (I don't have that many).

The possibility is a real downer but at least I'll know pretty soon. I got to get my affairs in order anyway. Tidy up my room and get rid of anything incriminating or useless in my possession.



The potential cancer site is pretty deep in. To get a proper look at it I had to dry my tongue with paper towels and pull it out. Luckily it seems to be mostly on one side of the tongue, which means I'll probably get to keep it(?)

Oral cancer, at the base of the tongue, I've had pain for a while but I don't remember exactly how long. There is a lump and a deformation on the top left base of the tongue. It's really far in but quite big.

Of course it might as well not be cancer.

I'll opt for surgery if possible. It's still very early to tell of course.

Well, apart from the constant pain and the possible cancer, you could say that.

I guess it's time to take up meth-making to provide for my family.

Edit: Obviously I'm joking about the meth-cooking.

Update: I'm okay! It was just a weird extremely painful lump inside my throat. That was 2013, it's 2020 now!

I may have cancer, I will know in a little less than 2 weeks. This is not the way I want to die, balled up in a hospital. I don't really want to talk to my friends and family about it until this proves to be cancer.

I'll know for sure this December 26.

And the countdown begins.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_hFTR6qyEo


I mined them all I'm so sorry....

But, I just got a miner...

Instaaaaa Mining, INSTAAAH_MINING you boy




Here, you just got a miner, I had a miner 3 hours earlier.... And my miner, mines acrooooosss the room, and starts to get all the coins.... I mine your coins Eli, I mine them up.

Man, I hope everyone on that pool uses protection.


You can't imagine how disgusting semen gets underwater.