Lump on head

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Here is my concern.. i am a healthy 26 year old. A few years back i had surgery to remove severly diseased tonsils. When they took them out they were the larger than golfballs. For years i suffered with severe sinus,ear, throat problems prolly from the time i was 8- 18 years old. After the surgery when i was 18 the ear, nose and throat doc noticed my lymph nodes in my neck area were not going down.. he did all sorts of tests including a biopsy on the one... everything came back negative and he said they maybe scared and will never go down. However 7 years after the fact i have had a hard bump near the base of my skull behind my ear. Its prolly been there since i had all the tests, however i dont remember... i do know for a fact that ive had it for at least 3 years. Its never grown and its about the size of a grape. However after doing some internet searching i have my self pretty worked up. I asked my dad and he told me that bumps on the head run in our family and that hes had several surgerys to remove cysts from his scalp.. I have also just came from my yearly check up and forgot to bring up the lump to my doc.. he did check my other lymph nodes and noted they were still swollen didnt grow from 7 years ago and did the yearly blood work and said everything was fine. My question is should i seriously be worried or am i acting like a hypocondriac ?

You should go back to the doc. He will know if it a lymph node or not. Then you can proceed with a decision about what to do about it.

I plan on going back, however until then im trying to calm some of my panic. Does this sound like cancer? Ive had the thing for quiet some time and it has not changed, i also dont have any other symptoms?

I really doubt it's cancer. It's just some lump/cyst. The prudent thing is to have it checked out. You're like my wife. Every malady she has has to be cancer or a tumor.

Thanks.. i wasnt always this way but when they put me through every test under the sun when i was 18 i became scared to death of the disease. I appreciate the feed back... im always rediscovering the same bumps and lumps and everytime i do it sends my stress level through the roof

If it were malignant it almost certainly would have grown over that time.