Inguinal lymph nodes- Swollen 6 years + Additional Ailments

Hi all,

Before I start I will let everyone know that I am seeing a doctor about this, but as you will see in the following comments I do not have much faith that I will get anywhere through that avenue. I will also start with some background.

I am a 23 year old female. For the past 6-7 years I have been struggling with debilitating fatigue, body aches unlike those you get with a flu, rather they feel very deep in my hands, arms, legs etc. (the best I can do is compare it to the so called growing pains you would get growing up) mild to moderate headaches everyday that I typically take Advil for and don’t think anymore about. I take turmeric everyday for the past 3 or 4 years because if I don’t my knees and ankles swell and get hot to the touch. About 4 years ago I got X-rays of my lumbar spine because my left leg was numb (pins & needles) for about 2 months. All I was told from the X-ray was that I had arthritis in all my lumbar vertebrae (very odd for a 19 year old in my opinion). Tbh yea we’re not able to figure out the cause of the numbness and it eventually subsided. Most recently, for the past 4 months I have been getting nauseous very suddenly & throwing up at least once a day. I saw a GI doctor & he told me it was likely stress as I’m in full time school and full time work. Tried to prescribe Zofran which I didn’t take as that cause all sorts of other GI problems.

I have been to doctors about all of these symptoms over the past few years and everyone has told me these things are “normal” and “nothing to worry about”. I’m not sure how feeling terrible most of your life is normal but that’s another conversation.

All of these problems never raised huge alarms to me as I’m the type of person to push through pain without complaining. It wasn’t until I was reading one of my textbooks on the lymphatic system that something may have clicked. About 6 years ago a single Inguinal Lymph node because swollen & I disregarded it as a cyst. As time went on it became larger and more presented. At this time there are about 7 on both sides of the groin that have persisted without shrinking back down. Each between 1-2 inches longways. I frequently have enlarged neck lymph nodes but only 2 smaller ones near either ear are consistently swollen, the rest come and go. Same with my armpits.

I am wondering this this is cause for concern & if I should become a bit more aggressive when it comes to getting answers in this from doctors? im sick of being gaslit by doctors.

Additionally, if it does not sound like lymphoma does anyone have any thoughts on what other avenues I should be looking down?

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