hard lump on side of neck

[tiger88]

Yeah, statistically if you drink alot and especially smoke together with it. You are more likely to get those "bad" lumps. Not sure about the lumps from sharing drinks with strippahs

damn ..i drink a lot and smoke even more and esp togather... my whole neck should be fucked

good info

i should change my living habits

 

[GoldenDelicious]

you're a doctor almost, what do you think ?

i think, without a doubt, youre going to die.

from something.

probably in the next hundred years.

also, i think theres an excellent chance that it is something very, very simple/common like a sebacious cyst (most likely because you said that its hard) perhaps a swollen lymph node although that is looking increasingly unlikely as time goes on and it remains unchanged (which is the impression i get from this thread) mayyyybe a lipoma but they tend to be softer, or perhaps even an ingrown hair that hasnt become infected (less likely, although they do occur quite readily, though moreso where you have facial hair...where is this little thing, exactly?). im far less inclined to think that it is an allergic thing (or youd be complaining of a couple of other things...and you arent.)

imo the thing you need to relax about (that is coursing through your mind) is cancer, because of a couple of things: if it were cancer (of whatever type) and its of a sort that is moving through your blood, then you wouldnt really have a mass adjacent to your lymph nodes - youd probably have one in the big lymph nodes in your neck. also, if youre at the stage where youre feeling large, unmoving masses, youd likely be feeling lumps in other lymph nodes also. commonly, that is.

im in the game of detecting common things and referring people on to the appropriate med professional. do you need to be assessed by a doctor? yes, of course. theres a small, small chance it might be something nasty, but even if it isnt, the reassurance youll get after your visit is worth it. does it sound like a dangerous mass? no. in the pattern of how 'dangerous masses' occur, it doesnt really fit into that "yeah, seen it just like this a hundred times before" profile, and simultaneously, it fits into the cyst/lipoma model really well...and theyre a hell of a lot more common. hell of a lot meaning 1000 times more common.

so chill out, bran theres a great chance that you have something dumb that will resolve with a minimum of intervention.

cheerios

oh and im not almost a doctor. they work far harder than i do, and they love themselves...but in a nasty way. i love myself stylishly

 

[GoldenDelicious]

oh yah, by the way, it kinda helps if i knew how big/small it was, how close to the surface, hard/soft, regular in shape or bumpy, discoloration, heat, redness, how youre feeling in general (nausea/sore throat/recovering from something), when you first noticed it, has it changed since then, if so, how bla bla bla, because from the info in this thread, it isnt terribly easy to pin it down...but either way, you should have worry factor about 2/10. sleep well tonight, hit on the secretary at the surgery, pm me tomorrow

 

[bran987]

ok GD, thanks. I just hate the thought of knives near my neck that's all. I really don't think I have cancer lol. I'll go to bed now. last night of mystery, T-minus 7 hours until I see the doc it's on the left side of my neck, further back than where my beard would grow. just a couple inches below the hairline. it's very small and only detectable when I rub my neck. not visible otherwise. anyway thanks again.

 

[GoldenDelicious]

ok GD, thanks. I just hate the thought of knives near my neck that's all. I really don't think I have cancer lol. I'll go to bed now. last night of mystery, T-minus 7 hours until I see the doc it's on the left side of my neck, further back than where my beard would grow. just a couple inches below the hairline. it's very small and only detectable when I rub my neck. not visible otherwise. anyway thanks again.

oh. thats really bad.













(not really small, deep enough that youd detect it when you rub it etc points towards the lymphnode/sebacious cyst/lipoma possibles, followed by the ingrown hair, as well as a smattering of benign cysts. its location away from the larger nodes makes the cancer thing a lot less likely (when you think about how cells move etc, it doesnt make a lot of sense for a mass to be there) but imo your doc is going to want to figure out what it is, perhaps via biopsy or just chopping the mofo out (depends what vessels etc its next to), but probably not on this visit.

gnite

 

[spongebob]

ill eat a lump of shit if its not a cyst.





























not really but i will pay lestat















100,000,000,000 karmas
















not exactly

 

[spongebob]

also, i think theres an excellent chance that it is something very, very simple/common like a sebacious cyst (most likely because you said that its hard) perhaps a swollen lymph node although that is looking increasingly unlikely as time goes on and it remains unchanged (which is the impression i get from this thread) mayyyybe a lipoma but they tend to be softer.

thanks for the back up mate!

thats why i said id bet if it was right under the skin, hard and small.

 

[bran987]

here goes...

 

[sawastea]

Good luck Branmuffin

 

[GoldenDelicious]

poor guy. i didnt have the heart to tell him it was terminal