maz063
18-10-22, 22:38
Hi everyone. I've been dealing with a bump or lump on my outer left thigh near my knee for a year. It's not rock hard but it isn't soft and unmovable either. It came on last years suddenly with pain. Pain went away and bump kinda went down but it goes up and down depending on what movements I've done. Anyways, it was worrying me sick because I was googling muscle knot in thigh and sarcoma popped up everywhere. It's been a hard time. I had my doc feel my thigh and she ordered an MRI. MRI said no signs of soft tissue mass. Everything looks normal.
I'm having a hard time accepting this. My mind is running through all sorts of scenarios like what if the radiologist rushed it or wasn't paying attention or that the tumor is deep and hidden. But even when I looked through the images ( I don't really know how to read an MRI but I compared it to other scan images of tumors in a similar spot and everything) nothing jumped out at me as being concerning or out of the ordinary at all. So it's not like the radiologist just rushed through it. But then I wonder if the machine was faulty or I'm too fat and blah blah blah.
I know some folks on here have had this fear and it turned out to be a muscle tear. I guess I'm just scared not knowing exactly what it is. Whatever it is can be dealt with later. My main concern was soft tissue sarcoma but no masses appeared on my MRI and I can feel this thing with my hand. I's not tiny and idk how an MRI would miss that.
Getting a second opinion won't really help my OCD because then I'll just think the second radiologist made a mistake. My doctor mentioned an orthopedist or general surgery and I really don't want to go through all that for something that's most likely not serious.
Any advice on how to not second guess test results and scans?
I'm having a hard time accepting this. My mind is running through all sorts of scenarios like what if the radiologist rushed it or wasn't paying attention or that the tumor is deep and hidden. But even when I looked through the images ( I don't really know how to read an MRI but I compared it to other scan images of tumors in a similar spot and everything) nothing jumped out at me as being concerning or out of the ordinary at all. So it's not like the radiologist just rushed through it. But then I wonder if the machine was faulty or I'm too fat and blah blah blah.
I know some folks on here have had this fear and it turned out to be a muscle tear. I guess I'm just scared not knowing exactly what it is. Whatever it is can be dealt with later. My main concern was soft tissue sarcoma but no masses appeared on my MRI and I can feel this thing with my hand. I's not tiny and idk how an MRI would miss that.
Getting a second opinion won't really help my OCD because then I'll just think the second radiologist made a mistake. My doctor mentioned an orthopedist or general surgery and I really don't want to go through all that for something that's most likely not serious.
Any advice on how to not second guess test results and scans?