For about a week now, I've had a couple of swollen, sore, tender lymph nodes in the left side of my neck. My neck also feels sore when I move it around and I know it's not my muscles aching or tensing.

When I feel the lymph nodes, they feel like rubber and move around. Sometimes it gets bigger, sometimes it gets smaller. I feel several sore, tender areas in different places on my left side of my neck.

I saw a doctor about this and she just felt around my neck and say it was a viral infection, but how can she be so sure without a scan or any tests?

Sometimes, it hurts to lift of my head because my neck is so sore.

I do get a slight sore throat here and there, and when I swallow, the left side of my throat feels sore. What should I do? Please help, I'm so worried.

I don't have mono. I don't have a bacterial infection that I know of and I don't remembering having any previous cold that I'm coming down from. Please help, thanks.

I don't have any dental issues and the doctor didn't give me any medication as she said it should go down on her own.