Freddiemercury
28-08-13, 18:29
Hello everyone,
I have been reading your site for a while and finally decided to join and become a member. Your site has already helped me so much and I am hoping you can maybe give me some reassurance now.
Last week I found a lump under my chin, in the soft area between the jaw bone. I panicked because it was very hard like bone. It feels round and does not move at all, very fixed in place. It also does not hurt. Yes I admit I went on google (and have been on there torturing myself for about a week :wacko:) and everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, I read said a hard, fixed, painless lump is a sign of malignancy. It just kept going back to that over and over again.
I have an appointment with an ENT tomorrow and I think because my appt is so close I have really melted down today. I have always had health anxiety since childhood, but it's gotten worse in the past few years since I lost several loved ones, including a 7-year-old cousin. Now it is more intense and I will sink into a depression thinking the worst and will start ruminating over things like having to say goodbye to my husband and parents and all the dreams I have in life. I've broken down crying to my husband several times over the past week and feel 100% sure the doc is going to tell me the worst.
I recognize that if I do find out this is nothing, I seriously need to go back to therapy to address these issues because it can be quite debilitating. But in the meantime, anyone else have a lump like this that turned out to be nothing?
Thanks everyone :)
I have been reading your site for a while and finally decided to join and become a member. Your site has already helped me so much and I am hoping you can maybe give me some reassurance now.
Last week I found a lump under my chin, in the soft area between the jaw bone. I panicked because it was very hard like bone. It feels round and does not move at all, very fixed in place. It also does not hurt. Yes I admit I went on google (and have been on there torturing myself for about a week :wacko:) and everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, I read said a hard, fixed, painless lump is a sign of malignancy. It just kept going back to that over and over again.
I have an appointment with an ENT tomorrow and I think because my appt is so close I have really melted down today. I have always had health anxiety since childhood, but it's gotten worse in the past few years since I lost several loved ones, including a 7-year-old cousin. Now it is more intense and I will sink into a depression thinking the worst and will start ruminating over things like having to say goodbye to my husband and parents and all the dreams I have in life. I've broken down crying to my husband several times over the past week and feel 100% sure the doc is going to tell me the worst.
I recognize that if I do find out this is nothing, I seriously need to go back to therapy to address these issues because it can be quite debilitating. But in the meantime, anyone else have a lump like this that turned out to be nothing?
Thanks everyone :)