I have a swollen neck/throat for the last 8 months on and off

[Bennett20502050]

I have had a swollen neck/throat for about 8 months now. I went to the doctor and they did some blood tests but everything came back negative. This problem, it will come and go for a few weeks, but then disappear for months at a time. During those weeks when it's happening, each day will vary. Some days will be worse than others. Smoking makes it much worse. Whenever it happens, I take a nap, and when I wake up, it's usually gone for a while but then can come back a while after being awake. It feels like there's a bump in my throat when I swallow most of the time, and especially when the swelling happens. The swelling is usually on the upper parts of my throat, below the jawbone on each front side. But the swelling can also be lower in my throat too. Any information would be appreciated. Also I've looked into Cricopharyngeal spasm but im not sure if that's the problem.

[BigDawg17]

I have also had a swollen neck, lump in throat, dry throats etc.. but I'm pretty sure the source of all my inflammation is lymph nodes. I had to have 3 teeth pulled a few months ago (may have been infected) and the swelling went down after I refrained from touched by them for a while. That lasted for about 2 weeks and now the swelling is back because I just had to probe my nodes again (bad idea). Be careful with the smoking though... I have been looking up throats and oral cancers recently and they are no joke. Scares me because I smoked for 10 years and then dipped for about 7 months before completely going off of tobacco.