Swollen lymph node in groin?

[anxiousthrowaway]

Hello! Late night anxiety and I'm losing sleep over this. I'm a 25 year old girl, normal weight, training for a marathon, not a perfect diet but definitely better than average. Gluten free because I have an allergy.

A little under three years ago, I noticed what I'm now am pretty sure is a swollen lymph node in my groin area (where my leg attaches, far away enough from my front that I have difficult looking at it. I have tiny hands, and it's always been the size of my fingertip, so about .5 inches or slightly smaller. It is hard but not super hard, I wouldn't say that I can move it around but it's not stiff, I can kind of sort of move it (not from the spot it's in but I can push it back and forth and it wiggles, it's not rigid). It's the same color as my skin, and it doesn't hurt. Part of me is not worried because I'm fairly certain it hasn't grown, but part of me is totally freaking out because what if it's slow-growing lymphoma that I've just left undiagnosed for almost three years.

I'm going to call the doctor tomorrow, but any advice while I'm waiting for an appointment would be greatly appreciated because I'm totally bugging out.

[Ken_PA]

Hi, your analysis about it being benign is correct and no doctor would be alarmed. It's probably fibrosis in the node.

Besides, even if it was a slow growing lymphoma, it very possibly wouldn't be treated anyway.

[anxiousthrowaway]

Wouldn't be treated???

[Ken_PA]

Yes, with slow growing lymphomas (like indolent follicular lymphoma)  patients are often put on 'watch and wait' because treatment isn't needed until the lymphoma gets worse.