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Lymph nodes are GOOD guys, not BAD guys!Įar piercings, dandruff, a sore on your scalp (even a very tiny infected hair), shaving bumps, ear infections, sinus infections, pimples, nose sores, styes, a mouth sore, gingivitis. They were created to help keep us healthy by keeping a cold from going into our chest, etc. The whole soft part of the throat is lymphoid tissue. They work like a filter and stop stuff from spreading.
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They're sort of the garbage can for the virus or bacteria our white cells have killed off. Lymph nodes are supposed to swell! If they're doing their job, they will enlarge. I took him to the dermatologist who cleared him right up but told me it could take a year for that node to go down enough that we couldn't feel it and if I kept touching it, it would never go down. When my youngest son hit puberty, he had horrible dandruff (not nary a pimple tho) and we found the lymph nodes on his skull were enlarged mostly on one side. I hate to tell you to Google, but it does have images showing you where those drain from and might relieve your panic. Veryscary, lymph nodes on the back and side of your neck drain from your scalp (those toward the back of your neck or those ON the back of your head about ear level but in the back) and the others from ears, sinuses, a stye on your eye, etc. The collateral damage to my family and girlfriend is the problem.But eventually they would move on I know. Like I think of it was something that doesn't hurt, like I'm going to sleep. But I can admit on here that I've been thinking about s****de more and more than ever. I can't tell my therapist this because they will 1013 me. Life in fear or life with some fucked up deadly disease. Right now the anxiety is to a point where death is seeming better than life. I have an 18 year old lymph node on he other side where I took that very tack.īut that was a long time ago. She said I may never know what caused the nodes.She said unless something pokesnout her neck or is hurting her, she wouldn't even have bothered going to a doc. My girlfriend says I have to talk to the fears and do some serious work on my ability to cope with uncertainty. He will order up a bunch of tests and then I will be on the road to learning I have lymphoma. I figured that surely my ENT didn't feel these last week. I think all of them are symmetrical, just bigger on one side.Įverything that made me feel OK aboit the one node was out the door. But I found that one and then two others that are symmetrical on each side. Ibswear I wasn't trying to look for nodes.
#Shotty lymph nodes code#
Yesterday my lymph node panic went into Code Orange when I realized there was another one on the left side of my neck.