How can you tell if your lymph nodes are swollen?

[Nerva]

when i swallow, my throat feels weird, like something is there. so i am thinking that my lymph nodes are swollen, but i can't really tell. it doesn't hurt or anything. any one with sound medical mind here?

 

[MX2]

You feel them, and they're swollen would be the best way to tell😕 Also, they might be tender.

Google...

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003097.htm

 

[Nerva]

can you be more specific as to how i would feel them? would they be visible? like you can see your swollen throat?

 

[sixone]

If your lymph nodes were swollen, your neck would hurt just below the back of your jawbone.

 

[desk]

feel the spot about halfway between your jawline and adams apple. if its tender/swollen, then yeah, thats your lymph nodes.

 

[Nerva]

Originally posted by: sixone
If your lymph nodes were swollen, your neck would hurt just below the back of your jawbone.

that's the thing, it doesnt hurt like if you have a sore throat.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

STD?

 

[Nerva]

Originally posted by: desk
feel the spot about halfway between your jawline and adams apple. if its tender/swollen, then yeah, thats your lymph nodes.

can you be more specific as to "tender/swollen"? would it be obvious?

 

[Jgtdragon]

what is the purpose of the lymph nodes anyways?

 

[FoBoT]

run some lymph node checking diagnostic software

 

[Nerva]

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
STD?

actually you are kind of on the money, but i have tested for pretty much ever std and came up negative. i am afraid that it's HIV, since the time I tested negative for HIV was 7 weeks past exposure. so it didnt mean anythihng

 

[frodrick]

Originally posted by: 3cho

Originally posted by: desk
feel the spot about halfway between your jawline and adams apple. if its tender/swollen, then yeah, thats your lymph nodes.

can you be more specific as to "tender/swollen"? would it be obvious?

feel around the spot on your neck that you would feel to check your heartbeat. if there is a large semi-moveable lump there, it is probably a swollen lymph node which generally means you are sick or getting sick. if you don't feel anything unordinary then they aren't swollen.

 

[desk]

Originally posted by: 3cho

Originally posted by: desk
feel the spot about halfway between your jawline and adams apple. if its tender/swollen, then yeah, thats your lymph nodes.

can you be more specific as to "tender/swollen"? would it be obvious?

it's hard to say. it might not be extremely obvious. if it feels a little different then normal, thats a sign. but then again, most people dont feel that area unless they are sick, so its hard to compare.

 

[Nerva]

Originally posted by: frodrick

Originally posted by: 3cho

Originally posted by: desk
feel the spot about halfway between your jawline and adams apple. if its tender/swollen, then yeah, thats your lymph nodes.

can you be more specific as to "tender/swollen"? would it be obvious?

feel around the spot on your neck that you would feel to check your heartbeat. if there is a large semi-moveable lump there, it is probably a swollen lymph node which generally means you are sick or getting sick. if you don't feel anything unordinary then they aren't swollen.

sh1t, i feel the two lumps there, and they are semi-movable. oh sh1t... swollen lymph nodes are the first signs of HIV infection

 

[Chompman]

Originally posted by: 3cho

Originally posted by: AccruedExpenditure
STD?

actually you are kind of on the money, but i have tested for pretty much ever std and came up negative. i am afraid that it's HIV, since the time I tested negative for HIV was 7 weeks past exposure. so it didnt mean anythihng

Worry much?

 

[Nerva]

yeah, entire summer lived in fear

 

[sixone]

Learn something.

 

[Nerva]

it can't be syphillis, i tested 7 weeks after, which is enough time for it to show up. the only probable thing that i haven't ruled out is hiv, sh1t, i am gonna die.

 

[MommysLittleMonster]

You can definetly feel them if they are swollen.

 

[GeekDrew]

...or how about you run down to a testing clinic and get yourself tested?

 

[FeuerFrei]

could be anything. Happened to me once. Never did find out why. No STDs.

 

[conehead433]

Get a bottle of Berberine( a highly potent natural antibiotic containing GoldenSeal and Barberry Bark). Take the entire bottle over the next 8 days. Send me $100.

 

[konichiwa]

Unless you have specific reason to believe that you've contracted HIV, I doubt it's an HIV infection. I get swollen lymph nodes about a week before I get sick, invariably, always. It's a common thing for peoples' lymph nodes to enlarge during the onset of a new viral/bacterial infection. There's a ton of things that could make your lymph system react like that, and while HIV is one of them it's one of thousands...