Would you be worried?

I'm taking Jaz to the doctors today. She's had one enlarged lymph node/gland in her neck for years. I had it checked out about 2 years ago, but it was nothing to worry about.

On Friday I did her hair & suddenly, rather than being the size of a pea, its about 2cm round & sticking out about a cm from her neck. She has another one on the other side staring to get bigger as well, but its only pea size now. I haven't felt any others, but haven't tried yet.

I'm not sure what to think. I'm not too worried, but I'm wondering if I should be? I have no idea what it could mean.

Hmm def can't hurt to get it checked hun.. not sure what it could be.. but if it's getting bigger i'd ask the Dr to make sure it's def nothing .... i'm sure all will be fine.

I probably wouldn't be overly worried as such, but if it has grown that much and there is another one growing, then I'd definitely be getting it checked out.

Maybe its just an infection of some sort. They are all slightly swollen around that one. I'll let the gp check out her pelvis if he wants to. Can't feel any under her chin. Just 3 or 4 at the back of her neck normal swollen, like they get with an infection & that one. I noticed that one wednesday last week. Not the others. :dunno:

I was thinking infection too? I'd get it checked out just to put your mind at ease :hug:

has she been sick lately?

DD also has a few enlarge lymph nodes around her neck and head and the paed said theres nothin to worry about it unless it hurts or it is enlarged for long periods of time.

It will usually enlarge when your child isnt well as the immunie system is down but should get back to normal size (in our DD's case larger than normal size) once they recover.

Hopefully its nothin to worry about, please kept us up to date as DD also has them and like you I get worried quite often too.

We actually have a friend who had the same as a child & ended up finding out when one enlarged that he had thyroid cancer. It got bigger & was hurting, but doctors fobbed them off for 2 years. He ended up going down to royal far west for something completely different & they checked it out.
I'm not that worried, but it makes you think.

Gp says it feels innocent & probably just a cyst, but having an u/s done on Wednesday.

My DS2 gets these all the time and like everyone else has said dont worry too much just yet.

His come up everytime he has been under the weather and hang around for a couple of weeks afterwards.
He did have one that lasted a while longer and we had an ultrasound done on it but it was fine. Turned out to be just an over active enlarged lymph node and he was given a two week course of anti biotics to help it on its way.

They are nasty looking things but my GP told me they are common and if the are "movable" and not hurting then thats a good thing.

Hope your u/s puts your mind at rest

See, it doesn't move & DD says it hurts, but I'm not sure if it really hurts, or she's just attention seeking.
Oh well, we should know by the end of the week.

Better to rule it out now as being nothing than not doing anything at all :)

Ok, had the u/s done on Wednesday. No reassurance there.

There are actually 3 of them. He scanned all 3. Said we need to go back to the gp & he'll probably do a course of abs to see if they go down. So I took that to mean they aren't cysts.

Did read (shouldn't have, I know) that they will do that before any further testing for non hodgkins lymphoma... Pretty sure the abs will fix things though :) The only symptoms other than the lumps are dark circles under her eyes & not being up at 6 like usual, but I never put them together til I googled, so I'm pretty sure I'm reading too much into it all.

I did wait til today to google. Will be steering clear now!

Gp is away & won't get a message that we want to be seen til Thursday, so won't get to see him til after that, but he's booked out til after christmas, so letting him decide if he needs to see us & when.

He said it feels innocent though. Thats all I'm worried about for now :)

my initial thought was enlarged thyroid.
so he may want to do a thyroid blood test as well.

good luck hun

Good luck hun. Thinking of you, I know it must be an anxious wait, you sound as though you're doing really well though :hug: I'm sure it will all be fine.

Thanks guys :)
Not worried, just yet, lol. Felt the 3rd one yesterday arvo. Its right at the top of her spine, next to that one vertabrae you feel between the shoulders? (iykwim)