Armpit is making me crazy

[Worrywart1234]

I’m hoping someone can help me. For the last month or two, my HA has been focussed on my armpit. One is puffier than the other. I can’t feel a lump at all, but it does feel slightly puffier/fatter than the other. All over - not in one spot. My HA is so bad, I can’t tell if there is a lump or if my anxiety is stopping me from checking properly. I can’t look at myself in the mirror at the moment and can barely shave or wash under my arms because I’m scared of what I will find. I got my husband to feel my armpits the other night, and he said the armpit I’m worried about felt a bit tight like I’d pulled a muscle. Could a lump feel like that? I’m really scared.

[BrokenGirl]

It sounds like a bit of asymmetry to me. It's quite possible you've been like that for a long time but only noticed it in the past few months. But if it is a recent thing, I'd be happy with what your husband said when he felt it. There's a big difference between a tight muscle feeling and a lump. If the muscle is a bit tight at the moment then you'd expect it to appear a little bit puffier.

[Worrywart1234]

This arm put thing has got me really spiralling at the moment.....or my anxiety is out of control and I’m focussing it all on my arm pit. I just don’t know.

I know we are supposed to challenge our worries. So, realistically speaking...

I can’t feel a lump at all. It just feels a bit swollen or puffy or something. If it WAS a lump (or the C word) it would feel like a lump.
Yes, I can feel sensations a bit like a strained muscle. No pain. And I’m almost certain the sensations I feel move locations ever so slightly. If it was the C word, surely there would be pain and it would always be in the same spot.
I have had similar issues in the past that lasted for months - sensations that I knew were going to be fatal, all to find out they were nothing - and then they disappeared never to return again. Statistically speaking, it’s most likely to be the anxiety I am feeling, surely.

That is right, isn’t it? Because I’m breaking out in a full on sweat just typing this.

It’s not easy to confront the beast.

ETA I am worried mostly about lymph nodes. For the record, I don’t know what part of the arm pit to even find them. I don’t know what they are supposed to feel like when things go bad....How can I be so worried about something I know nothing about?? I just can’t go on like this.

[nomorepanic]

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