Please don’t worry, go get it checked out and give it a month or more to drop back to where it should be. The confirmation bias on there is nuts for us health-anxious folk. Obviously for piece of mind, I recommend going to the doctor just to have them confirm it but do not listen to Google. If you don’t have awful symptoms (night sweats, fever, cough) to go along with it, you are fine. If your node is elliptically shaped (like an egg), you are fine. So even if you have a node that is hard at first or suspiciously large or in the spot where it is the highest chance to have cancer, YOU DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY HAVE CANCER, DESPITE WHAT GOOGLE SAYS. It didn’t show any signs of getting smaller for 4 weeks then randomly decreased a significant amount. He told me to come back if it didn’t go away or if it got bigger or if I got more symptoms. I went to the doctor the next day and the doctor described it as shotty (resembling a shotgun pellet) and most likely it is nothing to worry about. Naturally I googled myself into having cancer shortly after I noticed it because google said hard = cancer, big = cancer, supraclavicular = cancer. I was recently going through a time where I had a single node that was pretty large 1.5cm in length and unknown width. You can use these buttons to filter out certain posts in the subreddit. “Symptom Listing” and “Anyone Else Experience This?” Posts "Great Content!" - Some of our best posts.īelow is a summary list of our rules. Remember not to substitute anything said in this subreddit as real medical advice. If your health anxiety is negatively impacting your life, you may have to consider professional help such as a psychiatrist or psychologist. Health anxiety is a real, and medically, recognized mental illness. While /r/HealthAnxiety is a community for people suffering from anxiety with concern of our own health, we're not certified to give any kind of professional or medical advice.
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