the_nub
27-05-09, 12:19
Rargh. HA has been ok for two days and I've actually started to think "wheeey! Maybe I'm NOT dying!"
Then, whilst absent mindedly fiddling with my belly button last night, I felt a small moveable lump. It is about the size of a pea, but it's oval shaped rather than round. I can feel it if I insert my thumb fully into my belly button (I have an innie!) and use my index finger to pinch the roll of flab just below my belly button. It feels close(ish) to the surface (no more than an inch below) and feels within my fat, rather than within my ACTUAL body (if that makes sense). It is fully moveable and slides around from side to side quite happily.
Of course, I prodded, poked, squeezed, pressed and everything else you can imagine ALL last night, and it's a bit tender this morning.
Given the fact that I am waiting for an ovary scan at the moment due to ovary/lower back pain, I am now of course terrified that this is a cancerous lymph node.
I have googled like the idiot that I am and it HALF made me worse (lymph nodes by belly button sign of some abdominal cancers!) and HALF made me reassured, which is new for Dr Google ("there aren't any lymph nodes in that area!" and "it's a lipoma") but I am still stressing out.
Anyone had/got one of these little belly button lumps?
It's definitely not a hernia, by the way. :)
Then, whilst absent mindedly fiddling with my belly button last night, I felt a small moveable lump. It is about the size of a pea, but it's oval shaped rather than round. I can feel it if I insert my thumb fully into my belly button (I have an innie!) and use my index finger to pinch the roll of flab just below my belly button. It feels close(ish) to the surface (no more than an inch below) and feels within my fat, rather than within my ACTUAL body (if that makes sense). It is fully moveable and slides around from side to side quite happily.
Of course, I prodded, poked, squeezed, pressed and everything else you can imagine ALL last night, and it's a bit tender this morning.
Given the fact that I am waiting for an ovary scan at the moment due to ovary/lower back pain, I am now of course terrified that this is a cancerous lymph node.
I have googled like the idiot that I am and it HALF made me worse (lymph nodes by belly button sign of some abdominal cancers!) and HALF made me reassured, which is new for Dr Google ("there aren't any lymph nodes in that area!" and "it's a lipoma") but I am still stressing out.
Anyone had/got one of these little belly button lumps?
It's definitely not a hernia, by the way. :)