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Question about neck nodes

Greer2204
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It is normal to be able to feel lymph nodes in the neck, even when there not swollen? I can feel ones below and at the sides of my jaw and at the sides of my new. There all below 1/2 an inch and I've had them for 2 years and they've never changed. I also have no symptoms of any cancers etc... I've read that lymph nodes can be feelable when not swollen in slim people, is this true? I'm also slim and only 17

  • Hello again

    I understand these lumps in your neck are really playing on your mind but there is no one on here who can tell you any more about them, I'm afraid.

    The important thing is they remain unchanged in 2 years and you don't have any other symptoms so likely to just to be part of your normal anatomy.

    Yes some people can feel their lymph nodes more easily than others.

    Please talk this through with a parent or another trusted adult as it clearly is worrying you.

    Take care

    Naomi

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