Hi everyone, I’m new to the forum so unsure if I’m posting on the right page. Firstly, I have severe health anxiety which has been going on for some time since a friend was diagnosed with lymphoma. I obsessively convince myself I have a cancer every few months so I do feel like this is happening again. But also I have had some very worrying symptoms so wanted to ask for advice.

almost 4 months ago I felt a small lump on the right side of my neck an inch of so below my ear lobe and more towards the back of my neck than my jaw. It is between the size of a pea and a baked bean. It’s moveable in the sense that when I press it it doesn’t stay still under my finger, and it hasn’t grown in size/become painful. However, it hasn’t gone away. 2 different doctors have checked it and said it was fine, however at the time I was fixated on a different illness and worry that they just brushed it off to stop my anxiety from

getting worse. 

I feel my neck all the time (and have done since my friend got his diagnosis) and this is the first lump I have ever felt. Yesterday I was feeling my neck and think I have found a more round lump at the very back of my neck. These are not obvious lumps and you can’t feel them with a quick once over, however if you prod they are definitely there. I have had no other symptoms.

My GP appointment is booked for next week. I am trying to stop myself worrying as 2 other doctors have said I’m fine. I recently had a blood test and my white blood cell count came make as normal - would it definitely be abnormal if I had cancer? 

I am behaving exactly as I did when I’ve been thinking I’ve had all sorts of other cancers, but the lumps are really worrying me. Just need some reassurance that I’m only being silly or if not some information about the chances of it being cancer, etc.!

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