I found a swollen lymph noded in my neck that has set off my health anxiety again. I 've booked a doctors appointment for this week but I'm just looking for a little information/advice/reassurance from people on here as I know lymph nodes are a hot topic.
The initial lymph node I felt is around 0.5-0.8cm, maybe the size of a pea. It's hard to measure these things but it's certainly not over 1cm. I found it around 4weeks ago with no recent infections or ill health. Over the course of the 4 weeks it seems to hardened a little but I'm not sure if this has been hardened naturally or been caused by prodding. I've not touched it so much the last couple of days and have taken ibuprofen and it seems to have gone slightly smaller and softer by the tiniest of margins but I'm really not sure. I'm pretty sure it's mobile to some extent and it causes no pain.
I was starting to worry less about it but I've just discovered a second lymph node next to the initial node (and possibly a third a little further down the neck). All three nodes seem to be in the same chain with the biggest 2 kinda connected (although I might be imagining this). The third one is hardly worth mentioning in size but the second one in maybe around 0.3cm. I can't feel corrsponding nodes on the right side of the neck which is why I've really noticed even these tiny ones on the left hand side.
I guess the nodes aren't particularly big and I may have had them for months for all I know. But do these symptoms sound like I should be concerned at all? I have bigger and more definded lymph nodes in my armpits but I know those are there and they are normal for me. This is the first time I have felt these lymph nodes in my neck so they aren't normal to me hence I'm googling... and worrying... and prodding...and making my neck hurt...and therfore worrying even more.
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