To ask if anyone has ever had this - bit embarrassing, medical.

[PrettyTricky]

So, I fell down the stairs last Thursday. Was running down, lost my footing and didn't have time to put my hands out. Landed on my right bum cheek and basically bounced down a few more stairs. I couldn't believe how much I hurt myself from just that, I've fallen downstairs before but this was extremely painful in comparison and I sat there in shock for a few minutes convinced I must have broken something. I hadn't as I managed to get up and walk.
I'm pretty skinny of ass and certainly not of the Kim Kardashian persuasion when it comes to buttocks, so not much padding there.

It was the worst fall I've had, and a week on (and a doctor visit) I have terrible bruising coming out and a big soft lump, about 4 inches in diameter and raised like a tennis ball (maybe slightly flatter than that). It sort of looks like I've had a bum implant on one side only. Actually, you know those chicken fillet things you can pad your bra with - it's like I have one of them in my bum.

Very sore still, in fact increasing pain, is now waking me at night. Doctor has diagnosed a hematoma and said it should get better in time but to look out for signs of infection. No warmth, redness (bruisng is actually below the lump not on it).

Wondering if anyone had had similar? It almost seems to be getting bigger and worse, but maybe one of those things that gets worse before better. Also a major hypochondriac, so imagining all sorts of horrors that could happen (please don't tell me about those).

Can anyone regale me with their hematoma stories (lighthearted - I really don't want to hear death by hemotoma) or any advice about what to do.

This really is a pain in my ass!

I had a hematoma in my cheek from dental injunction.

Looked like I'd been punched and was agony, took weeks before it was fully better.

Yes, I did the exact same thing a few nights before my wedding! Did a huge comedy slip on my freshly exfoliated smooth feet at the top, landed on my right arse cheek and bounced down. I thought I was dying from the pain, whilst DH (or DP as he was then) couldn't breathe for laughing.

I had the ugliest purple bruise for weeks, but I also developed the chicken fillet style lump above it - I believe its where fat has been forced away at the point of impact, because it has never really gone back - it isn't really visible now but I can feel it.

DH can actually slot his fingers in the dent and grasp the lump of flesh, we call it my bum-handle.

I knew someone who was kicked in the thigh by her horse - she had a very visible dent with the misshapen bump of fat above it too!

I had this. I have a skinny arse and my sister has much more of a Kim K arse. We were walking along sort of playfully 'bumping' each other with our hips/bums and then she did it too hard and I ended up like you! Was in pain for 6 weeks

@WhoisitnowRalph oh my god...it might never go away? I think what you're saying about the displaced fat lump is completely right, it feels like that is what happened as there's almost a concave dent below below it.
Poor you happening right before your wedding! X

Sympathies op. Sounds like a haematoma-a very deep bruise. It will reabsorb with no fuss almost certainly. Might take a week or two. Keep an eye out for it getting bigger or infected as the doc recommended.💐

Don't panic, OP, you're not going to die :) The lump will not necessarily be there forever, and could just be from general inflammation caused by the injury, plus the haematoma (pooling of blood in the area). These should go down over time as your body sorts all that out.

I came off a motorbike on some black ice a few years ago and raised a bump like a hard egg on my arm, and another (bigger) on my thigh, and they took quite a long time to go away (several weeks) but they did eventually. Made life very inconvenient and uncomfortable while I was healing up, so much sympathy!

Thanks all, you're being very kind and making me feel better.
I cannot get over how painful this is, hpefully the lump won't last forever, and in the great scheme of things it's nothing compared to what others are suffering.

Doc gave me some hefty painkillers - opiate based ones which I've never had before. Need to do school runs and such and nervous of being zoned out, so am sticking to ibuprofen and paracetamol, but they're not doing much.