iamreguser

Hello and sorry for posting here before introducing myself properly, but i am worried about this thing going on...

I've been an MJ user for almost 7 years now, and an almost daily smoker for about 2-3 years. Around 7 months ago, i began to feel slight throat pain when smoking (i only smoke MJ, zero tobacco), which started to get more serious as time went on, until I began to felt pains where the neck joins the head and where it joins the body, also i felt a hardening on the left side of the neck, and would often feel a lump/hardened tissue around the middle of the left side of my neck, it also made that side of the neck feel very sensible, as in weak and feeble, and also joint pains, specially in the wrists and knees; this only happened AFTER smoking, I.e. it would recede when not smoking, and would start slowly developing again if i smoked. A month ago I went to the doctor and they found out i had a nasty streptococcus (beta hemolyticcus), whose symptoms are, unsurprisingly, joint paints (more precisely rheumatic pains) and coronary disease (shortening of an artery, as i understood), and gave me a treatment for 7000mg of penicilin (7shots) and 4800 of penicilin with something else (4 shots). I didn't tell the doctor about me smoking weed (not sure about confidentiality in my country, not US, that's why im posting here). After the first week (5shots) without smoking, all was peachy, until i saw this stoner movie, and my weakness got the better of me, so i just HAD to have a joint. The pains got back, and though it was only 1 joint, it lasted until about half a week, so i said no more weed until this thing is cured. Then i started with the rest of the treatment, 1 shot of 1200mg of penicilin + something else (will check and post later) every 2 weeks, and the pains had already receded again, but then this friend i hadn't seen in a long time shows for the weekend, and again, i smoked, but this time it was like 5-6 joints. It is now a week after this, and about 4 days after i last smoked:at first the pains got back, and also the lump. Now i can't feel the lump, but the pain at the neck-body junction is still there, and also my throat keeps.. developing? mucus (not as much as when you get the flu or cough). I finally got all my stash into cooking oil (not strong enough to get rid of it), so i will not be able to touch it for at least a month.

So here is my question: Could this lump be cancer? Im aware that the only reasonable option is to go the doctor and tell him all that i've posted here, but as i stated earlier, im not sure about the patient-doctor confidentiality in my country, so im very paranoid about it. Also, it may be related: most of the time i smoke, i use a hitter (if the tourists i've met are correct, it is not very known outside mexico), a little metal gizmo which is sort of a very compact pipe, it has two parts that screw togheter, one is a bowl and the other the mouthpiece/filter. I've noticed that smoking with the hitter makes the pain come quicker that if smoking a joint.

Sorry for the lengthy post, but i'm desperate for help.