Movable nodes - Lymphomas Message Board

snakenole · 05-18-2004, 03:19 PM

Hi, just another quick question. I've got an appt. with an ENT next
week so hopefully I can get some answers. but I have a quick ?
regarding "movable nodes". When people talk about nodes being
fixed or movable, I know it sounds simple, but how movable should
they be? The one I have that is enlarged will move if I sort of push
on the side of it. It sort of 'slips' back toward the back of my neck.
But if i push on the other side of it it really doesn't move much.
From the front I can make it kind of wiggle back and forth. How
movable should a node be? I keep reading that cancerous nodes
are fixed and I'm just wondering if that means they don't move at all.
This one seems to be movable to me but I'm not sure.
Sorry if this is a dumb question. Thanks for your help.

worryworttx · 05-18-2004, 03:45 PM

I think that if they move they are not cancerous...but I don't know for sure. I have nodes that are swollen and have been swollen for over a year. I forget about them and then I will be doing something and I will notice them. I have on under my left breast on my rib cage area right now that has been there for a year at least ... it is moveable and it rather large, you can't see it when I am undressed or anything like that. I have had fibroids all my life and my breasts are filled with them, and I actually had a benign tumor removed from my breast last year

so I am wondering if I am prone to tumors or not. I don't know..if it is not one thing it is another...that is why the doctors and insurance companies can sock it to us. Because the world we live in is full of toxins and the things that we put into our bodies is just as bad. But I don't know the answer...but from what I have read and heard. One question that I have is how long can lymph nodes stay swollen without becoming alarming? I have had the nodes in the back of my head on my skull pop out before...talk about something that is painful.
Any input would be great.
Bec