I was asked to come for a routine blood test at the GP's office. I have at this point been suffering from extreme pain throughout my body for about 7 years and have had various tests done, and the only conclusion they could come up with was fibromyalgia. The year before, my husband, who is a dentist sent me to the hospital to get tests done on my neck as I had two glands that were not going down, even though the GP and the specialists at the hospital said it was nothing to worry about, some people get swollen glands and can take a long time to disappear. So I had my routine blood test, and 2 days later I got a call from the GP (a locum Dr, that I had never met before) asking me to come in straight away. He sat me down and said he had gone over my blood works over the last couple of years and he was concerned and would like to do a physical examination. Once done he told me to take a seat, and he said, "right, I think you either have an autoimmune disease or lymphoma." My spleen and liver were very enlarged, and the glands on my neck were still there. I thank God every day that I got to see this locum Dr, cause not a single Dr that I had seen over the years had taken any notice of my symptoms.