Swollen Nodes: Left Armpit And Above Left Clavicle

Also I haven't really had any other symptoms. My left breast does feel thicker than it used to but it still feels just like fibrocystic changes to me...but I also have VERY fibrocystic breasts that are a little on the large side (DD) so I would think that would make it harder to feel any new lumps? Also, I am only 27, so I wouldn't think it would be breast cancer, although I know that is a possibility. The only other symptoms that I have had is that I have had bouts of fatigue from time to time. Again, any help would be appreciated.

Have you lost you appetite recently?
Have you lost some weight unintentionally?
Are you experiencing night sweats?
Can you notice some red patches on your skin?
Do you have severe itchy skin, especially on your legs and feet?
Do you feel chest pain or other respiratory difficulties?

Thanks for your response...I lost about 30 lbs a little over a year ago very suddenly but I had just gotten off of 300 mgs of zoloft so I attributed the weight loss to that. I've sort of lost my appetite over the last four or five days actually, but that also could be stress.

I had scaly, red itchy patches that were kind of oily on my scalp over the summer a couple of times that I have never gotten before. I was going to go to a dermatoligist but they went away after I started using a shampoo with salicyclic acid. I had one itchy, scaly patch by my temple but it went away on it's own. They were more pink than red. I haven't had any of those episodes in about 3 months though.

I have experienced a lot of night sweat episodes over the last month but not every night. I haven't had to change my clothes or anything but when I wake up my hair is curly and my pillow and sheets are damp.

I have severe itchiness in my feet but that too comes and goes. My armpit where the nodes are is kinda itchy and tingly and the left side of my neck has a weird sensation to it.

I smoke, so I have a smoker's cough and congestion. About three to four months ago though I started having random sharp pains in my upper left chest and it scared me b/c I always think it's my heart. Those come and go and sometimes it just feels like gas is trapped there.

My father's a doctor (orthopeadic surgeon, however), so I just always ask him stuff. He just says go to my Ob/GYN which I am doing. Do I need a primary care doctor as well probably?

I don't find your skin problem on your scalp associated with other symptoms you are experiencing for the last few months.
Scaly, itchy, red skin and stubborn dandruff are symptom of very common skin problem called Seborrheic dermatitis. This disorder predominately affects the scalp
and you may experience periods when your signs and symptoms improve alternating with times when they become worse.
It's neither harmful nor contagious and you got the right treatment.

Does fibrocystic breast disease affect one or both breast?
Do you have swollen, tender breasts, and one or more lumps?
Do you feel breast pain?
Do you know that fibrocystic changes may make breast examination and mammography more difficult to interpret, early cancerous lesions may occasionally be overlooked?


Have you been experiencing fever for over one week?
Do you have chills or a feeling of temperature swings?
Lymph node swelling, often in the upper body area, fatigue, weight loss - usually at least 10% over a short time, night sweats, itching without an apparent cause or rash, are symptoms of lymphoma.
Please, visit your doctor and ask for lymph node biopsy!
Take care!
Marija

I now have a hump on my sternum as if something has pushed it up and moved my pressed on my rib to the right as well. I have burning sensations there and it itches sometimes. My father is an orthopedist (sp?) and I am making him do a chest x-ray next week. He says it's probably nothing, but I just think it is strange that all of these symptoms have come on in the last five months or so. I have had severe tightness in my chest for up to a year now but I have always assumed it was anxiety, along with the chest pain. My friend looked at the hump and said the only way that they would think I could get that was from being body-slammed, but I have not been hurt or had any trauma to my chest.
Lately sometimes when I eat, it feels like food gets trapped where the hump is...and I have been increasingly getting shorter and shorter of breath. I have a low-grade fever sometimes during the day and I can always feel when I have it, but it comes and goes.

I also have found a huge knot at the bottom of my neck on the left side, same side as the supraclavicular node and armpit nodes, that I thought was a tension knot but it does not hurt and has not gone down in over three weeks once. I can see where it seems swollen at the left side of my neck at the bottom, and I wouldn't think a tension knot would be able to see anything. Will they be able to see if I have anything causing my sternum to protrude the way it is on just an x-ray?
Thanks for all your input. I am very concerned.

There are numerous causes for sternal masses, but in your case that is very indicative for lymphoma.
Do you have sensations of abdominal pressure or pain?

If lymphoma involves the lymphatic tissue of the thymus, the gland located in front of the heart, it may cause chest pain. In addition, an enlarged thymus may press on nearby structures such as the trachea (windpipe) or the large vein that carries blood from the head and arms back to the heart.
Pressure on the trachea can lead to coughing, fatigue, shortness of breath, and other respiratory difficulties. Pressure on the superior vena cava may produce a swelling of the head and arms.

Chest X-ray can show if there are enlarged lymph nodes in your chest, in the middle of your chest, in the area called the mediastinum. These enlarged lymph nodes or more possible " lymphoma process" that has affected the marrow of your sternum, is causing the sternum hump. CT scan will give more precise visualization of the sernum and other organs inside the chests.

You need a lymph node biopsy immediately.
Best wishes!
Marija

Hi, My mum had Lymph node cancer on her right side and died 5 years later at 39. I have a lump on my right nodes in armpit which has been there about 9 wks and lump on left clavical at base of neck which only appeared recently. I have no appetite, fatigued all the time, loss of appetite and night sweats.

Can anyone help pls?
I do smoke and got chest pains around the same time as the lump in my armpit but have now gone. I also have a weakness in my right arm due to the lump in my armpit.

Many thanks!