Lymph Nodes Hard and Other Illness Along With This?

[kacefacexo]

Hey, I'm a 14 year old girl, and for the past month and a half, I've been pretty sick, but It's basically off and on. I've lost 12 pounds, had a stuffy nose, stomach aches, changes in bowel habits, constipation a cough, fevers, horrible headaches, joint and back pain, sore throats, tiredness, weakness, loss of appetite, chest pain, you name it, I probablly had it. I had an upper GI test done with the results being only mild reflux, and my blood counts indicated a viral infection (lymphocytes being around 52 and WBC being around in the 4-5 range). My doctor said it should go away in about 3 weeks, and it really hasn't. My worst concern is that the lymph nodes below my jaw are growing slowly, and they are both pretty firm and won't move, at about 1-1.5 inches each. They don't hurt, but my neck does. I'm also scared because today, while lying down, I felt a pretty big, about ping pong ball sized, maybe a little bigger, lump along the front of my waistline on the left side a few cm from my hip bone. It's also hard, and it kind of feels like I have two lumps connected or maybe one that has another part on it. I don't know, but it doesn't really hurt, but the area around it hurts. I don't know what to do, I'm meeting with a gastro specialist, but I don't even think thats the problem.. Help please, I don't know what I should do :(

[Ken_PA]

Hi. You're not overreacting. If I were you, I'd mention it to the gastro doc. He'll tell you to go to some other doc to have it checked - then you can relay that to your parents.

To be that fast growing, it might be a sebacious cyst. But it's not 'normal', so to speak.

[kacefacexo]

Btw it has gotten bigger over the course of 3 days, It's a little bigger than a ping pong ball, maybe the size of a golf ball. I told my parents & all they said was it was probablly just some organ or something cause your body isn't always equal on both sides. They think i'm overreacting too, I dont know what to do :\