Recent Cherry angiomas - internal malignancy?

[Johnny1999]

Dr -
4 weeks ago I went away on vacation w/ a few friends (I am a 30 year old male).  I met a girl down there and had protected sex (w/ condom) and received unprotected oral sex.  3-4 days coming back, I got a sore throat - went to see my dr.   Lymph nodes in teh neck were slighly swollen, tonsils was red, but the weird thing is, I noticed (for the first time) these tiny red spots all over my body (maybe 4 on my chest, 4 on stomache, 6 on both upper arms, a few on my back and legs).  I know for a fact that I did not have these before (as they were in area that I shave - i.e. chest, pubic area).  Dr. ran a bunch of blood tests and dismissed the spots as "petechia" (or growth spots).  Blood tests all came back normal except my lymphocyte counts were only 0.8.

7 days after retuning, I was freaking out and went to the ER.  Dr. there told me they were Cambell de Morgan spots - and not to worry.  They again ran a CBC, and everything was normal, but this time lymphocyte count was 1.6.  

Went to an STD clinic 3 weeks since occurance, again they told me Cambell de Morgan spots - not to worry.  They did an HIV test for me, came back negative.  CBC run again, everything normal, but again, my lymphocyte count was 0.9 this time.

My questions are - can stress and anxiety cause cambell de morgan spots to errupt (as I've been a wreck)?

Given that I know for a fact that I didn't always have these spots (as all my dr.s have suggested that I "just never noticed them before", should I be concerned.  I've read on multiple web sites that for multiple cherry hemangiomas that have appeared over a short period, an internal malignancy should be excluded.  This scares the hell out of me - and yet all of the drs seem to automatically dismiss this as something not to worry about.

Not sure what I'm supposed to do at this point.  Drs think I'm a hypocondriac now.  Should I pursue futher insight, are the CBC's nothing to worry about (i.e. low lymphocyte counts)?

[seyal30]

A related discussion, about red spots (de morgan) red chery was started.

[missnanny]

When you go on vacation you are around a lot of people, even people that you sit next to on an airplane, who can be expelling a BUTYL type chemical out in their respiration and you are exposed 'second hand'  Do you recall any flu symptoms?  Or 'moisture under nose or 'the sniffles'  OR flatulence to diarrhea?

The chills is one symptom of hemolytic anemia   And if that is going on the CBC doesn't show it up, as several factors are changing, one counter acting the other, and the doctors don't find this anemia.  They would, probably, if they had the lab tech look at the red blood cells.

So, in that setting I would look for a group of things going on differently that are AUTOIMMUNE.

I think night sweats in this setting could be a clue to one of the lymphomas, but I have no medical background, just an expertise in recognizing the harm of 2-butoxyethanol (one of the most prevalently used butyl chemicals)

[Johnny1999]

Dr. Rockoff - I appreciate your response and attempt to help ease my anxiety, however I truly feel as if there is "something going on".  I shave my chest and pubic area once a week and have never seen these red spots.  All of a sudden they appear (along w/ a number of other symptoms).

I have been suffering from night sweats and chills for the last few weeks, and am unable to dtermine if this is anxiety causing this or something else.

Can you please (at minimum) answer the following questions diretcly for me (as I am no expert and need to know the answers):

Can stress and anxiety acually cause these spots to errupt?
Can a recent erruption suggest that there could be an internal malignancy of some sort?
SHould my low lymphcyte count be of any concern (does stress actually lower you lymph count - I seem to get conflicting answers to this question from dr to dr?

[Alan Rockoff, MD]

I think you've seen enough doctors.  Nobody looked closely at your body before in a way that could let them say with decisiveness that these spots were already there.  Neither did you.  The assessment of the doctors you saw--that these are normal spots that you just didn't pay attention to before you had a reason to panic--seems to me the most likely.  I don't think there's anything you ought to do at this point, except perhaps to take steps to deal with your anxiety.

Best.

Dr. Rockoff