Not sure what to do here - hoping someone will have a suggestion! For the past 3-4 days I've had the worst pain and swelling in the back of my head - I've gotten it a million times before and it seems to be my lymph nodes, or the whole lymph channel. It's usually worse when I exercise or overexert myself, but it's just been getting worse lately and I'm at a point where they are ROCK HARD and the pain is severe - I can't even move without seriously exacerbating the pain.
I just don't know what to do about the pain. This is one of those rare instances where the pain is bad enough to warrant an advil or something but give that it's my lymphatic system causing the pain, the last thing I want to do is put in another substance to be filtered out. No amount of water seems to be flushing it out. Would heat be a good option? Ice? ...Crying to get some of the fluid out? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I would love to be able to get out of my bed without a surge of blinding pain!