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Lymph node scare

I am a 19 year old boy recently I developed a lymph node behind my neck and I reduced in size I dont know how and its not going back to normal but its below 1cm and the lymph node is small and moveable not painful
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You have been advised on the HIV forum to see a doctor about your lymph since you don't even know what lymph is supposed to feel like.
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Hi, a lymph node can not go back down fully and yet still be not-cancer when:
- it has scar tissue (fibrosis) inside from an infection or inflammation
- there are lots of granulomas inside, which is when the immune system can't kill off an infection so it walls off the infection with immune cells that surround it
- there is still an active infection or inflammation
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