Swollen lymp node side of neck for months!!!!

Basically around late january  i felt my neck for the first time and i noticed swollen lymp node around around a size or pea on the left back if my neck i didnt know what it was first but then after reading about it i noticed it was a swollen lymp node.

I kinda got scared as the last time i got ill was around late November wid a chest infection and that the lymp node should have gone by now.

4 weeks on the lymp node hasnt gone and now i noticed another lymp node near it this on simalar size however the first one kinda shrinked but its still visable and its around 1 cm big. 

 

Also around February i got a enlarged goiter in the front of my neck which hurt alot but that went down 

I dont know what it is but can a lymp node not go down afer a infection. 

 

  • Hey!! 
     

    Go to your doctors and have them check it! It's one lymph node odds are it's fine. I started off freaking about it when I had just one and now I've got so many and I'm loads of different places with an ultrasound booked Wednesday I wish I just had the one as most of the time the outcomes seem a lot better! 
     

    I've seen it can take ages for them to go back down so it's probably still just from your chest infection but it's best to check x 

  • May i ask u a few questions 

    How big is ur lumps and how long its been there. And do u have any night sweats or any other sytomps. 

  • [@Lovestar123]‍  of course! They vary the ones on my throat can be quite big and swollen but I'm not sure if those are nodes not sure what they are lol. Others I'd say just under a centremetre a few just over so not large unless the ones either side of my throat. I've felt warm at night since having my son but not actual swears no! Only tiredness but my one year old has only just started sleeping through the night lol. I have white spots on my tonsil that's all x

     

    collarbone one about my finger tip in size x

  • I also had a lymp node on the side of my neck for a while now its about a size of a pea for months aswell. 

    Im not a doctor or anything but i think the white spots on ur tonsillitis are acc a good sign rather than a bad one beacuse that states a infection in ur tonsillitis rather than cancer i think however its good to get it checked as it could be. 

    May i ask how long it was there for

     

    Also i read up a few websites that lymp nodes aren't technically swollen if they are less than 1 cm or about half a inch as long as its not growing 

  • [@Lovestar123]‍ Aww bless thank you I know I did think that at first but my bloods revealed no signs of infection and I actually had a swab on my throat which also showed no significance so I really don't know. I had a cold on and off at the start of the month and now my throat isn't sore but it feels swollen again but it's literally come back on today my partner has said he has a bit of a sore throat too but I'm not convinced it's the reason for the pain. My ears have been mildly hurting since December too! 
     

    I first noticed my lymph nodes swollen around Late November early December but thought I'd leave a few weeks to see if they went due to infection and they didn't I've just kept finding more and more and then no signs of infection which is weird. Originally the one I went about to the doctors I don't think it's a lymph node but a cyst and my partner has it in his throat too. 
     

    if you have just the one it's looking very good for you! Have you had any doctors appointments ? Also I'm just guessing the size I'm not very good at measurements lol! X

  • Hi

     

    i have also had one swollen lymph node on my neck for about 1 month

    i am too scared to ask my mum since she is already stressed with work but do you think it would be worth asking?

    does anyone know what else other than infection or cancer causes these?