Swollen Pelvic Lymph Nodes?!


Question: Swollen Pelvic Lymph Nodes?
So two nights ago, I had sex with my girlfriend.. We were both clean and she's on birth control. And I went to some party last night (no sex) and I'm wearing skinny jeans. I ended up sleeping just sitting on the couch, and I woke up to some pelvic lymph nodes swollen.. My big brother told me it appeared too early for it to be an STD or anything like that. He said it probably got constricted from how I was sleeping.. Any thoughts? I looked it up and any symptom of HIV usually appears like weeks later.

Answers:

Swollen lymph nodes tell us that some sort of inflammation or infection is going on in the distribution to where those lymph nodes drain. They are not swollen due to your position sleeping.

Unfortunately they are very non-specific so swollen pelvic (or inguinal) lymph nodes will infer infection or inflammation in the areas of the genitals (i.e. could be STD), buttocks, anus, lower abdominal wall and the entire leg on that side.

Who knows what's causing it. If you google it you'll find all sorts of scary stuff like HIV (which is a cause - like thousands of other causes).

But I think you diagnosed yourself with some bug bites. That could cause it.

Doctor




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