I'm a bit of a hypochondriac...

anyways, last week I was having some tenderness in my lower abdomen. It was tender about 2 inches above my pubic hair, on the left lower ab. There was a small lump there, movable, and tender. I'm pretty sure it's a node. Also the fact that it was tender signals that is swelled rapidly. Fast foward to today, it is no longer tender there, but the lump (about the size of a pea) still exists.

Now this worries me. I have had a node on my mastoid process swollen for over a year now. Never tender, no pain, just muscly aches back there. I've had it checked out by multiple docs, including an ENT guy, and he said to just watch it if it gets bigger to let him know. As a general rule, they won't biopsy anything smaller than a walnut, because chances are it's not cancerous.

But now I have this node, and now two enlarged nodes in two totally different spots of my body.

I'm just really concerned, and it is getting the best of me. I can't keep going to the doctor and paying up the ass in bills.

I excersize alot, could this knot be an inflammed muscle from too much ab excercise, or maybe an inflammed node BECAUSE of inflammed muscles?

I have no weight loss, in fact I've been putting no steady lean mass for about a year now from lifting weights. No fever, no night sweats, no typical symptoms of cancer.

I just had allergy symptoms, rather mild, mostly everyday, accompanied by mildy tension headaches, and what feels to be sinus pressure. Odd thing is, I've had a brain scan and a sinus scan, both coming back normal.

HELP! I'm doing my best not to touch it or play with it. I just checkd it once this morning to find it wasn't tender anymore.