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Armpit cyst

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FurForksSake · 27/08/2025 20:29

I’ve got a cyst in my armpit and it’s been growing over the last dew years. Started as a pea and now is towards a small marble and it’s quite visible.

if they need to remove it (it’s annoying and I catch it on my bra or when shavint and it’s painful if I don’t position my bra right) will they do that under general anaesthetic or local? Or will they just continue to leave it? I showed it to a paramedic at the gp surgery a couple of years back and they said something about removal but I’ve just been ignoring it. Now it’s so big I want it gone but the idea of it being removed and stitched under local fills me up with dread.

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SlieveMiskish · 27/08/2025 22:24

Because you have lots of lymph nodes in that area, you need to go to the Gp and let them decide what to do with it. It may need a needle biopsy under ultrasound to see what it is…

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FurForksSake · 27/08/2025 22:29

Well if it’s cancerous I’m screwed as I’ve had it a long time. It’s mobile and just under the skin, they haven’t ever biopsied or scanned anything though and I’m a little too young for a mammogram. Urgh I guess I’ll try and have an FNA / biopsy done. It’s annoying me now. And there is that tiny niggle about location and tumours.

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MamaElephantMama · 27/08/2025 22:30

Please get it checked.

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FurForksSake · 27/08/2025 22:34

I will, I have had it looked at it the past and they didn’t do anything or send me to breast clinic as they were sure it was just a cyst. I do check what little saggy mess I have in my bra and never found anything else.

I might use my bupa and get then to do a mammogram etc just to be on the safe side.

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Doppe · 27/08/2025 22:48

Id get it checked out by a dr OP, for piece of mind if nothing else. A lump appeared on my collarbone early this year - i went to the GP and was referred for a scan. I hadnt heard anything for 3 months so called for an eta for the scan. I was told they are working on a timescale of 64 weeks...so if you can afford to go private, do!

unsync · 27/08/2025 23:04

If you have BUPA, just get a referral from GP. It will save you angst and you will get it sorted out much quicker.

Wallawallakoala · 27/08/2025 23:07

Have they given you antibiotics for it? I had one that sounds exactly the same and sometimes it would be inflamed but eventually it just went back down to a pea. Sounds weird but I was using charcoal bar soap on it and that really helped! They can definitely remove it under local but it needs packing. Mine now is like a spot that fills up every so often… sorry!

Wallawallakoala · 27/08/2025 23:08

Mine has been there for maybe 15 years, never had a scan on it but the drs said it was a cyst because it was moveable etc

Willquery123 · 27/08/2025 23:21

I used to get these when I was very stressed.

Like pp, they went (either reduced or popped).

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FurForksSake · 28/08/2025 00:00

This has been there I reckon five years and has grown. I think it did go for a bit but is much bigger now than ever.

the idea of having it removed and packed under local gives me the colly wobbles.

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DiaryOfaTTCer · 28/08/2025 16:33

Hi. I had a cyst in my arm pit years ago. I had picked at my arm pit in the first place to cause the cyst so it was completely my own fault. I ignored it and it got massive and painful over the course of a few weeks, so much so I had to go to a&e. They admitted me and I ended up under local anaesthetic that night having it drained / removed! It had to be packed from the inside which I have to admit was extremely painful. Was in hospital about 2 nights. I even had to have stitches in it which were removed weeks later. Horrible experience but I’m so glad I didn’t leave it to get any worse. I would definitely recommend you get it checked especially as it’s grown. Good luck

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FurForksSake · 28/08/2025 16:46

Well that doesn’t sound much fun! I wonder if I can smash it with a book like a ganglion?

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Abracadabra12 · 28/08/2025 16:48

I had one years ago that was oozing and horrible, I had it lanced and drained under local anaesthetic. I was a student in France at the time and remember having to look up the word “ooze” (suivre) ahead of going to the doctor…

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FurForksSake · 28/08/2025 17:49

Again, sounds awful! I think I’ll draw a face on it and call it Bob, it can be my new pet.

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MadKittenWoman · 28/08/2025 19:01

I've had a similar one for years. Two doctors have told me that it's nothing and that they won't remove it.

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FurForksSake · 28/08/2025 19:06

i Might get bupa to have a look at it, I understand the nhs have less and less resources. But it does nag at the back of my mind that I’m nearly 43 and have this “cyst” that could be not a cyst.

im back to considering smacking it with a book and drawing a face on it.

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