Hi,
I'm looking for some reassurance. I was ill with a virus a few months ago and saw a doctor, who said a lump I've had in my neck for about six months was a lymph node. I had thought it was a muscle 'knot' in my neck. This panicked me a bit as I'm aware lymph nodes shouldn't be hard for no reason. It's solid like a rock, doesnt hurt, or move. It's under my ear, just behind my jaw where the neck joins the skull and is around 1.5cm x 1cm. As it's still there now, I decided to visit another doctor, who this time said he thought it was muscular. As I've had two different opinions I'm not sure what to think. I've been feeling generally run down, my last blood tests showed slightly abnormal white blood cell count (3) and mild neutropenia (1.2) as well as a ALT result of 94 and albumin of 54. Everything else was normal. This could be related to the virus I had.
It's very difficult to get an appointment at my GP surgery (I had to wait a month for this one and call 6 times) and I have a long commute to work which means it's even harder to get to the GP. For this reason, I was thinking of getting a private appointment but wanted some advice from anyone who's had anything similar. Do you have a muscle knot that you were concerned about? Have you had a more sinister lump in this area? I'm at a loss for what to do now as one doctor says one thing, and the other something else!
