LF87
14-12-16, 13:15
Hi,
So I went to the doctors this morning after obsessing, and I mean obsessing, over a spot/node/lump thing on my groin. She had a feel around, and said it was a blocked hair follicle. A HAIR FOLLICLE. I have been demented over a hair follicle. My boyfriend told me repeatedly it's a spot, you guys on here told me it was a spot/cyst, I was having none of it. So I'm just posting to let you fellow node pokers that it's probably nothing and to remain calm.
I have niggles in my head of course, what if she's wrong, what if it doesn't go away etc. But she explained these follicles often feel like lumps and they have definable borders. This is why I thought it was a node, because I could feel a shape, not just like a mound that you get with spots. She said to go back in a whopping 6 weeks if it wasn't gone, but I think she's hoping I'll have forgotten about it by then haha!
Hopefully this has quelled my HA, at least for now. I've already started thinking about other things that bothered me before the groin, but I'm not going to allow it. No checking, no Googling.
I hope anyone having a similar worry can take some comfort in this.
Thank you everyone who helped me through this particular nightmare.
Xxx
So I went to the doctors this morning after obsessing, and I mean obsessing, over a spot/node/lump thing on my groin. She had a feel around, and said it was a blocked hair follicle. A HAIR FOLLICLE. I have been demented over a hair follicle. My boyfriend told me repeatedly it's a spot, you guys on here told me it was a spot/cyst, I was having none of it. So I'm just posting to let you fellow node pokers that it's probably nothing and to remain calm.
I have niggles in my head of course, what if she's wrong, what if it doesn't go away etc. But she explained these follicles often feel like lumps and they have definable borders. This is why I thought it was a node, because I could feel a shape, not just like a mound that you get with spots. She said to go back in a whopping 6 weeks if it wasn't gone, but I think she's hoping I'll have forgotten about it by then haha!
Hopefully this has quelled my HA, at least for now. I've already started thinking about other things that bothered me before the groin, but I'm not going to allow it. No checking, no Googling.
I hope anyone having a similar worry can take some comfort in this.
Thank you everyone who helped me through this particular nightmare.
Xxx