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Lymph nodes! Prominent 5 weeks

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Mads1026 · 17/07/2026 16:18

Hi, I’m looking for any similarly stories 😩 I have really bad health anxiety, 5 week ago I went to the drs as I keep getting a on and off ache in my jaw right next at the side were your mandibular is sometimes it’s painful to touch sometimes it’s not .. when the dr felt around he could feel some lymph nodes up but said they were mobile and likely reactive due to a ear infection I had 3 week before asked me to go back if they stayed up .. I can’t feel the nodes are see them .. fast forward to last week I saw him again and said this jaw feeling is annoying me it isn’t painful it’s just I know it’s there he said it was probly from TMJ are slavery gland stone but put in app for a ultrasound as the nodes were still there, iv been for my ultrasound today and he said my right side kneck is fine .. but on the left I have some prominent nodes, they look normal there oval they have fatty hilum and none increased vascularity .. the larges is 12.4mm .. he said he wasn’t worried and I shouldn’t be but because there prominent I need to go back in 4 weeks for another scan .. I have a dentist appointment tomorrow for a filling in the top teeth on the same side .. and my bloods tomorrow also I constantly clench my jaw and I don’t know how I’m going to wait 4 weeks 😭😭😭😭 please anyone been in the same situation xxxx

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concertinacornflake · 17/07/2026 16:40

Having health anxiety is emotionally very tough. Because you have health anxiety, no one can reassure you really on the medical side.

The thing that would help is trying to calm the anxiety in general - can you do some breathing exercises, meditation, yoga or go for a walk?

If you map out the next four weeks with some radical self care targeted at soothing anxiety hopefully you can get through the wait ok.

Mads1026 · 17/07/2026 17:09

@concertinacornflake thank you for the reply .. yes I know no one can help it’s awful I have my whole family reassuring me and the dr and the radiologist and still I’m like this 😭😭 honestly thankyou I will try plan some self care it’s the 6 weeks holiday so I have the kids off Im sure they’ll keep me busy !

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