My many worries

[Limeslime]

Thanks unicorn. I think it might be too far inside to be the hymen, and I’ve never had a vaginal birth, only C-Sections!
I’m hoping it’s just some bizarre anatomy, but I know I need to find out for sure!

[Limeslime]

Ok...I’ve made an impulse decision. A rare GP appointment became available for today with a doctor I really like (but who never has availability!) so I’m gonna go and get this lump checked out!

If I’d chosen to go to an STI clinic, I’d have had to wait til my kids were back at school, then my period happens to be due that same week...so I’d have had to wait til the 3rd week in January AND potentially be examined by ex colleagues!

So yeah...wish me luck! My stomach is doing flips!!!

[Limeslime]

The GP said she could only see skin tags. I’m not 100% sure that she saw the lump, as she sounded a bit confused in her tone. I kept describing it to her as a kidney bean, and after a while she said “yes, there is one like that.” 🤷*♀️
She didn’t feel it, she just accepted my description of it as being soft, and told me that the first rule of med school is “scary things are hard, not soft”.
So yeah...to me, it doesn’t fit the criteria of a skin tag because it isn’t hanging by a stalk, it’s literally growing downwards along its whole length, and from everything I’ve found from my frantic research, skin tags don’t grow internally!

[Limeslime]

Please can someone talk me down.
I’ve been to my GP twice in the past month for different reasons and was made to feel like a nuisance, so I really don’t want to go again, but this is driving me insane!

My left collarbone, towards the sternum where the bone gets fatter...I have a lump on the top of it. Like, actually ON the bone. Not behind it or under it.

I’ve been trying to make sense of it for two weeks now. It feels like a boney ridge along the top of the bone, pointing outwards, with a soft, movable, round ball at the end of it. It’s hard to explain, and I just cannot figure out what it could be, and it’s causing me to get obsessed.

If it were just the round ball, I’d think lymph node (it’s approx 7mm) but the boney ridge that seems to be attached to it, well...I just don’t know!! Normal anatomy?

Is 7mm worrying for a collarbone node? I know the rules on these ones are slightly different!

Anyway...please can anyone calm me down with experiences of collarbone lumps/lymph nodes that ended up being benign?

[Limeslime]

Anyone? 😬

[Fishmanpa]

You're just circling around to a previous worry Poke and prod and find some normal bodily anatomy to obsess over. Take a look at some of the replies there.

Positive thoughts

[nomorepanic]

Probably just part of your body to be honest. Seek and you will find

[Limeslime]

My anxiety is fully heightened right now due to a family member dying in hospital from cancer because she chose to ignore her symptoms.

I’ve been doing the same lately...blaming everything on my HA.

Guys...how urgent is it to get a collarbone lump checked?
I’ve got a pea sized lump on my collarbone that I’ve been aware of for a month. It’s smaller than 1cm (but only just) and is quite mobile. I don’t know for sure if it’s a lymph node because it feels like it is wrapped in fatty tissue.
I’ve booked an appointment with my GP for 12th feb, hoping it might go away by then.
Am I being stupid or sensible here? I cannot tell anymore!

[Neverending_story]

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Am I being stupid or sensible here? I cannot tell anymore!

Any medical expert will advise that you get any new lump/bump checked out - its worrisome for you I know but it sounds like a node to me (I am no expert so only going by what you have described) - get it checked for piece of mind.

One piece of advice though - I had a lump behind my ear and I fiddled so much with it that it increased in size ten fold - so dont prode or poke

[Rox2019]

I feel some relief with reading this! I too just found little tiny bumps in my hollow of my collarbone. Mine dont feel like nodes so i can tell either, mine are like a cluster of tiny tiny bumps? kinda weird. mine are also mobile. is yours in the hollow area? I dont think youre being stupid at all!!