She said they are a bit swollen, but they are totally not hard and very mobile, so she wasnt concerned at all. The doc said this could be the cause for those lab results. She has had some sneezing and runny nose occasionally, but this was like 1 or 2 weeks prior to the lab test. She said low neutriphiles and higher lymphocites % usually are related to a virus thing. I panicked and took her along with the report to the children hospital. Neutrophiles were low and lymphocytes high. Again, i kept saying to myself: he missed something (he is the best in my city). She had an ultrasound like 2 weeks ago wich showed reactive lymph nodes up to 6 mm, regular oval shaped and no contour deformation. I dont know why i became soooo obsessed this time. So they have been there for 2 years (i checked them time to time). I didnt think too much about it until i touched it it like 1 month ago. I asked her pediatritian then and he said that this is comon in children. When my daughter was 9 months old i saw lymph nodes in both sides of her neck. But mostly if is anything related to my children. I’m here to talk with anyone that needs it :) I am still learning this myself and I still google things but I know it’s reassuring to hear from people that have similar skin/body issues that turn out to be normal and not worst case scenario. Go to the doctor when worried but also know that our bodies are keeping us healthy and just because you notice something different doesn’t mean we are dying. My advice to everyone I see posting about lymph nodes, go to the doctor for your peace of mind but DON’T play with them, I am confirmation that if you play with them and hurt them they can’t heal. I spoke with a doctor and they told me that our bodies are amazing, they will fight viruses and illnesses and we won’t even know and these lymph nodes are just doing their jobs and if they get inflamed they may never go back down fully and will swell up again if we get sick. Even the rock hard one in my collarbone is almost completely gone. Now my nodes never got huge and they have only decreased in size. The original one on my neck was almost completely gone but I started touching it again and it would flare up. Well, low and behold when I stop touching them, they instantly go down. I never went to the doctor because I’m those types of hypochondriac where I won’t go to the doctor, I’ll just diagnose myself and cry about it. Convinced myself it was metastatic cancer from somewhere else.Īs I did with my original lymph node, I started poking and pinching these lymph nodes and continued googling and freaking out. This all sent me into a horrible panic, I was convinced I had lymphoma or some form of cancer. Then a few months after that I found another pea sized at the top of my left neck and then a month ago I was digging in my collarbone and I hurt myself and then days later found a HUGE rock hard lymph node. Months after the first lymph node I found a tiny pea sized one at the bottom of my right neck and again freaked out. I then started to do neck inspections, I would run my hands along my neck and I started to even dig in my collarbone(really rough also). Didn’t matter if I was driving, working, watching a movie or cooking I had my hand on that spot. I have spent the last couple months googling the same things over and over again and during that time I kept pushing and poking the lymph node literally every 5 seconds I would touch it. Of course google also said to just see if it goes down/gets bigger and not to jump the gun. Of course I freaked out for a moment as google told me it’s a lymph node and I have some form of cancer or STD. As we know doctor google is not for people like us lol.īack in March I suffered with some throat infection and a few weeks later in the shower I noticed a pretty decent bump in my right neck. Any little change or blemish I freak out and turn to doctor google. I have horrible health anxiety and hypochondria. You can use these buttons to filter out certain posts in the subreddit. “Symptom Listing” and “Anyone Else Experience This?” Posts "Great Content!" - Some of our best posts.īelow is a summary list of our rules. Remember not to substitute anything said in this subreddit as real medical advice. If your health anxiety is negatively impacting your life, you may have to consider professional help such as a psychiatrist or psychologist. Health anxiety is a real, and medically, recognized mental illness. While /r/HealthAnxiety is a community for people suffering from anxiety with concern of our own health, we're not certified to give any kind of professional or medical advice.
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