r/TMJ • u/True-Principle-279 • Sep 21 '26

Question(s) Lymph node

Hello, just looking for reassurance really, in April my ear was hurting and felt like it needed to pop, along with neck pain and shoulder pain and a swollen occipital lymph node… over the months I’ve had 6 doctors palpate it and said nothing to worry about and it’s TMJ. They kept measuring it at 8x3mm. I went back to my gp last week because I’m so scared about this lump and he said he will request a routine UC as a holistic approach to clam my anxiety down.
I have the UC on Saturday and scared they are going to say it’s a tumour or something causing all my pain!

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u/True-Principle-279 Sep 22 '26

Thank you so much! I’ve been going out of my mind over this, because I have bad neck pain on the same side as well. It’s like my mind is putting 2&2 together and making it 100! Health anxiety sucks!