Hey @Debra300,
I checked my profile page and I don't think there have been too many changes to this specific page in this recent update, although there was an update to this a few months ago? This is what it looks like now:
On your profile you should be able to see messages, but not notifications themselves. As Sarah said below, these used to be a part of the 'Nav bar' along the top of the page, but they are now part of the drop-down with all other account bits:
If you have pending notifications then these will appear as a pink number in brackets next to 'Notifications', the same way they do for messages.
The '6' you can see over my profile pic is referring to messages only, as this is the number displayed by default I think. You have to hover over the profile pic (to make the menu appear) in order to see notifications. For example, if you have 0 unread messages, then the number wouldn't be displayed (even if you had new notifications), and you would need to hover over your profile pic to check for any.
Would it be better to have the notifications and messages included in the number displayed over the profile pic?
(Is this what you meant? Let me know if I'm missing something 🙂)