u/Thinmintee

Hello everyone! It seems I’m making my way back onto this page because life just isn’t linear. I was diagnosed with stage II Common Hodgkins Lymphoma back in September of 2025, I went through ABVD from the end of September to mid February this year, and it seemed that the cancer responded very well to the treatment. I just had my 3 month checkup in May with my bloodwork and everything looked great!

A little before my appointment last month I had assumed my inner thighs have been chafing and didn’t think anything of it. As the weeks have carried on my left thigh has gotten a little swollen near my groin area and I was just rationalizing it as lipedema, chafing, it’s hot, etc, until I was feeling on the inside of my leg and I feel a swollen lymph node, it’s about the size of a kidney bean. I’m terrified. The cancer hadn’t even gone below my chest, I didn’t ever have any issues with my lymph nodes in my legs before or during my treatment, just my upper body.

I went to urgent care without even thinking about contacting my oncologist to see if I needed to do something immediately, the urgent care doctor talked with my Oncologist PA and he said that I didn’t need to have any scans done immediately and I have an appointment with oncology on Tuesday. That feels like a lifetime away to just stress and think about a potential round two of chemotherapy , even though I know it’s so unlikely. The last time I rationalized away the bad thoughts I ended up with cancer.

Has anyone had experiences with this before? Is this a common side effect, even if it’s not in the affected area from before? I’m so scared.