itchy bump on my head

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it is at my crown so i cant see it. when i touch it, it feels like a spot but it isn't it has been there four about 4 years now. EXp looked at it and said it was just like a raised bump, the same colour as my scalp, no redness or anything. but it itches. sometimes i worry people think i have fleas (i don't). any ideas what it might be?

I would go to the Dr, it could be a simple sebaceous cyst but it could be more serious.

Cysts can itch sometimes. Its the most likely thing, if its ordinary skin colour (I had a few recently, but they went down again after about a week).

Worth getting checked out though.

thank you both of you. i will see the GP about it.

As long as it isn't growing I wouldn't panic.

Obviously if it keeps getting bigger then make it a priority.

Otherwise you probably just have a cyst as everyone has already said! GP should be able to remove it for you.

thanks constance, i am not worried about it, more that it is a nuisance with the itching. have appt with GP next wednesday.

Good, I'm glad you're being seen.

I'm sorry if I spoke out of turn. I lost a friend to cancer recently and hers began with a lump like the one you describe.

What I will say is this: she was misdiagnosed for almost a year, because the GO never considered it might be malignant. It was treated as a fungal infection and various other things and didn't respond to these treatments.

What I would say is that if the GP is unable to remove it, and it does not go by itself or respond to what they prescribe, go back and ask for a dermatology referral.

You can at least have a biopsy and they can tell you what it is that way. I wish I had told my friend to get it taken off a year earlier and she might just still be here.

It is very rare to have cancer present like this but I just want to make sure it doesn't happen to someone else.

no, you didn't speak out of turn at all. i just didn't want you thinking i was panicking about it.

thank you very much for mentioning that, i wouldn't have known it could have been as serious otehrwise. so sorry about your friend.

No, it's fine. Honestly - I didn't think you were panicking, I was projecting because I think I probably would! I'm always far too worried about things!
Hope it is nothing, anyway x