Hello,I had a bad cold last week which lasted about five days. It ended four days ago and I ve had swollen nodes and pain in my arpit (it stared on my left armpit and after two days I started feeling tenderness on the right hand side one). At the begining I thought the bad cold had caused it but now it s been four days and the pain is not going away, in fact it s getting worse, I can see small lumps.
Certainly an overall infection can increase the size of nodes. these take a considerable amount of time to go away once they are enlarged (weeks).