I have been diagnosed with Mono, but fear that it is Lymphoma.

[Dance12345]

Basically I have been diagnosed with mono but before i was diagnosed i was petrified that it could possibly be lymphoma because i matched pretty much all the symptoms for it. I was relieved to know it was mono because at least i knew why was feeling bad at that moment but the fear came back. I guess you could say i have dealt with health anxiety a lot before but usually i brush off whatever im scared of having but i just cant shake this fear off and it is consuming me. I seems that whenever i find a new symptom it online my body seems to get that symptom shortly after, like excessive sweating/ night sweats for example. I want to brush it off but i just keep thinking "What if?" and that i just cannot let go of this fear, its truly effecting me horribly and i want to live a normal life and feel safe and comfortable but i just keeping finding more symptoms and symptoms that i maybe had started years ago and keep relating it back to lymphoma. I really hope and pray that i do not have lymphoma. I mean i've had mono for about 2 months now and its like some days i feel pretty good but then a few days later i will go back to feeling pretty crummy and isn't lymphoma having persistent symptoms? If my sore throat goes away and comes back weeks later doesn't that make it persistent ? Would that happen with just having Mono? Everything is just so frustrating like i have a pain in my leg right now and now i fear even more it is lymphoma. This is just a big mess and i just want this to be over and i want to be assured that i don't have any cancer of any sort and that it is just mono.  

[Paxiled]

It's one thing to check Google for sites such as Mayo Clinic and NIH when you have a diagnosis and don't feel your doctors are doing the appropriate things.  It's a good way to double check things.  But googling symptoms blindly is never a good thing -- symptoms are similar for many many things you don't have.  One thing I wonder is whether you actually researched how severe an illness mono is and whether your doctor talked this over with you.  It's not a cold -- this is a serious illness that takes a while to calm down and then you have to take care of the future problems it can raise, such as with your liver.  It's also been diagnosed, so you know what you have -- it's a common illness, so your docs would surely know it from lymphoma.  Stay off the Google looking for random symptoms but do research what you do have so you can handle it properly.

[AnxiousNoMore]

You have no medical background and Google is not a course so as long as you insist on checking in with Google you will never stop being anxious. Google can find a disease for anyone's self-diagnosed symptoms so it is never a pleasant experience Googling symptoms.