I have not any CT / biopsies on them because the ultrasounds were reassuring enough to my doctor. In any case, as far as my doctor can tell they are currently not cancer, so therefore they must be benign. (especially the collarbone one, because nearly all sites will say it's a worrisome find! I even had an ENT tell me that he would worry about it if found in an adult. I try to stay calm about them, but they still do represent a source of anxiety despite not growing. And you see people saying their doctor said their thinness may be why they can feel them. I recently read (on wikpedia mind you) that cervical lymph nodes may be palpable in around 20% of adults. Either you have an infection or you have cancer, yet we see so many anecdotal stories of people having persistently palpable lymph nodes and feeling no peace about it because they are not being told it can be normal. I think this particular issue is hard because everything online seems so black and white. (because I am still very anxious about them.) They get hard if I have an infection or if I rough them up during an anxiety attack about them. They have not grown, and I would describe them as soft. 2 (or 3) ultrasounds came back normal, and a lot of blood work since then has never raised suspicion. (therefore classified normal) I also have a teeny one in my right collarbone area (supraclavicular) and one in my groin. The neck ones are rather long (an ultrasound measures one long axis at >2.5cm) but the short axis on all of them are under a cm. I noticed a bunch of lymph nodes on the left side of my neck when I was around 16 after a bad bacterial / subsequent viral thing.
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