Spiraling over hard, fixed thyroid nodule

I went in for my annual physical today. I’m usually very good about my annual checkups but somehow missed my checkup in 2025. My doc said she felt a thyroid nodule that was “generous” in size and bumpy and is ordering an ultrasound.

I’ve actually noticed it for a while now but dismissed it. For about a year now, I’ve noticed a hard bump on the center of my throat (centered both horizontally and vertically on my throat, rather than off to the left or right or low). It’s about an inch in size, I would guess. Sometimes it feels like there’s something kinda of prickly in the left side of my throat and occasionally I have the sensation of something stuck in my throat.

I’m freaking out because it is a hard, immovable bump right in the center of my trachea. I’ve always heard that nah immovable, fixed lump is bad news.

Has anyone here had a hard nodule on the throat that turned out to be benign?