SYMPTOMS OF A SCARY INFECTION?

Please help...for a month now on and off my armpit area sometimes feels sore, stings and other times it doesnt. In my lower part of my neck if you feel around the area I feel small lymph nodes, they move around when you touch them. Whats this mean? Did i catch something, im so scared and nervous. I used protection everytime!! Plus i feel a sore throat coming on

I hear that if ur lymph nodes are infected ull feel them under ur armpit and neck area that means its related to HIV??? If its hiv and ur nodes get infected do your nodes hurt? or can they get swollen without pain?

PLEASE HELP

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

No sexually transmitted infection (including HIV) is likely to be the cause of such symptoms.  The lymph node enlargement associated with HIV is painless and body-wide, not localized to a single spot like one armpit.  There are many, many potential causes of such a symptom, most of them not seriou.  But see a health care provider if you remain concerned or your symptoms persist.


Good luck-- HHH, MD

[nsns]

Relax, do you have any idea how many things can cause your symptoms other then HIV, like a 1,000 or more! If you used protection everytime then it's almost 100% impossible for you to have contracted HIV!

[queensragazze]

see the thing is that my nodes on my neck are painless. what does this mean> and whatever i have under my armpits that too when i press down i dont feel any pain? any relation with the painless nodes u are refferring too associated with HIV?

[queensragazze]

can u please tell me what some of these causes relate too as well

[H. Hunter Handsfield, M.D.]

Nobody can give you any kind of reliable guess about the cause of such nonspecific symptoms.  See a health care provider and stop trying to find answers online.

HHH, MD

[queensragazze]

im noticing another big lymph node on the side of my neck, sometime wheni press on it it hurts other times it doesnt. is this anything i should worry about? i have a stuffy nose, a cough, and my armpits would feel wierd from time to time.

It is normal to feel lymph nodes in the neck area? what does this mean. please help last time im asking, thanks u dr.