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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5639860" data-attributes="member: 54707">I think I now know why this may have happened,  though at first I didn't connect the two. Thursday the 22nd of July I woke up  and my supra clavicle lymph node (port side) had swollen to the size of an  embedded golf ball. A couple of days earlier I had been cutting down trees and  apparently something had bitten me, probably a spider or tick. I didn't think  much of it at the time but a couple of days later I had the swelling. It wasn't  painful, just very large, and the swelling was right under the bite  mark.  I treated it myself and it slowly started to  recede and I forgot about it.  Then after I gave blood I was totally exhausted.  But today I woke up, feeling some better and did some further research on swollen  lymph nodes. Turns out that as they release all of the lymphatic fluid in a  swollen area the toxins flood your bloodstream so they can be filtered and  expelled by your organs. Usually this is a very slow process and concentrations  are not high, so unless you've been severely poisoned or envenomed this is  hardly noticed.  All well enough. But apparently the fact that I  gave blood greatly accelerated the flush out of my lymph nodes (because the day  after I gave blood the knot has nearly disappeared) and since I was down due to  having donated blood the toxins flushed out probably seemed far more potent and  the concentrations far higher to me due to the fact that I was lower on blood  than normal. I suspect that the change in blood levels and blood pressure due to  having donated caused my lymphatic system to begin an immediate and accelerated  dump of the infected lymphatic fluids back into my bloodstream. I further  suspect that at that point the lymphatic fluids were under heavier pressure than  was my blood and as blood levels dropped temporarily they flushed out far  quicker than normal.  It accelerated the toxin release, but because my  blood levels were down the effect was far more potent than normal. It's just a  theory but it makes a lot of sense given the evidence.   Once I remembered the injury from the week and a  half before then the exhaustion began to make sense.  Anyways I feel better today and think I'll likely  be back to normal tomorrow or Tuesday by the latest.</blockquote>

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