Can long-term swollen lymph nodes be normal?

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Hey,

I’m a 17y/o girl and I’ve had a few swollen lymph nodes in my neck since September. Initially, I freaked out a lot. I have HA, so any little thing kind of sends me into a panic. I googled relentlessly for a couple weeks, but then I got so stressed with school that I actually kind of forgot about them. About three months ago I ‘re-discovered’ them. There’s one that’s maybe half an inch and then like three or four more that are smaller. They don’t hurt, they move around, and they don’t get bigger. They’re just not changing and I feel like if they were a reaction to an infection or something they should be long gone. As I keep pressing around in my neck, I keep finding more and more little ‘bumps.’ I’ve pressed around my neck so much that I’ve actually got some bruises. I tend to press really hard and quite obsessively because they’re freaking me out and I don’t know what else to do. I’m not ready to go to a doctor, but I’ve somehow convinced myself that they have to be cancerous. I don’t have any other symptoms, just a few swollen lymph nodes for the past 9 months. Should I be worried and should I do something, or do I have to chill out and remind myself that I have somewhat bad HA and it’s so unlikely to be anything serious? Any advice?

Thanks in advance smile rolleyes

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    Hello, I can give you some tips for improving your health. First - the regime of the day: a person must go to bed immediately after sunset. try to do the last meal two hours before bedtime, so that your body will recover during sleep, and not spend energy on digesting food. in the morning you need to drink a glass of hot water so that your body can start and cleanse of the slag accumulated overnight. Observance of these rules will help to significantly increase the body's defenses and defeat many diseases.

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