Dan21
26-02-13, 22:56
Hello.
I think I’m being a bit panicky so wanted to get thoughts on my current situation.
Last week I was rubbing my neck at the back when I felt a small, pea sized lump. It’s about the level of my ear lobe and half way between the back of my ear and the line of my spine…it’s basically on the back of my neck. Quite small.
I’m totally convinced it’s cancer.
To be honest, it could have been there for ages, but I don’t ever recall feeling it before. It doesn’t seem to have got any bigger in the last week, isn’t painful or irritating. It feels like it’s attached to one of the muscles that come from the shoulder up my neck…I’m fairly sure it’s not a blocked hair follicle or sebaceous cyst as it feel way too deep.
My sister-in-law is a GP and she was visiting when I found this lump. She felt it and said she didn’t think it was anything dangerous, which, should have put my mind at rest, but it hasn’t. My wife has said that our sister has, perhaps, more of an interest in making sure I’m OK than most so if there had been any doubt, she’d have suggested I have it looked at further…but I’m still worried. I’m thinking of going to my GP, but it really is a small lump and I’m a bit concerned the docs will start getting fed up of me wasting time with my hypochondria.
The other thing I think ‘might’ have something to do with it is that I often get a stiff neck and stretch my neck out by pulling my head down, forcing my chin towards my breast. This stretches the neck muscles but I’m wondering if I’ve torn something or damaged a muscle, perhaps causing a lump or bump? The think is that I’ve had no muscular sharp pain that I can remember and I think I’d have had something like that if I’d have torn a muscle. That said, it’s aching in that area now and has been today but I’m stressing like hell about it and I’ve been poking the lump a lot.
Advice and helpful thoughts would be really welcome…I’m getting myself worked up into a right state about it being what I mentioned above.
Thanks.
I think I’m being a bit panicky so wanted to get thoughts on my current situation.
Last week I was rubbing my neck at the back when I felt a small, pea sized lump. It’s about the level of my ear lobe and half way between the back of my ear and the line of my spine…it’s basically on the back of my neck. Quite small.
I’m totally convinced it’s cancer.
To be honest, it could have been there for ages, but I don’t ever recall feeling it before. It doesn’t seem to have got any bigger in the last week, isn’t painful or irritating. It feels like it’s attached to one of the muscles that come from the shoulder up my neck…I’m fairly sure it’s not a blocked hair follicle or sebaceous cyst as it feel way too deep.
My sister-in-law is a GP and she was visiting when I found this lump. She felt it and said she didn’t think it was anything dangerous, which, should have put my mind at rest, but it hasn’t. My wife has said that our sister has, perhaps, more of an interest in making sure I’m OK than most so if there had been any doubt, she’d have suggested I have it looked at further…but I’m still worried. I’m thinking of going to my GP, but it really is a small lump and I’m a bit concerned the docs will start getting fed up of me wasting time with my hypochondria.
The other thing I think ‘might’ have something to do with it is that I often get a stiff neck and stretch my neck out by pulling my head down, forcing my chin towards my breast. This stretches the neck muscles but I’m wondering if I’ve torn something or damaged a muscle, perhaps causing a lump or bump? The think is that I’ve had no muscular sharp pain that I can remember and I think I’d have had something like that if I’d have torn a muscle. That said, it’s aching in that area now and has been today but I’m stressing like hell about it and I’ve been poking the lump a lot.
Advice and helpful thoughts would be really welcome…I’m getting myself worked up into a right state about it being what I mentioned above.
Thanks.