What is this lump (pic included)

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On my knuckle, it's not a wart and it's not from rubbing on anything.

Any ideas?

Can't see the photo but does it hurt? It could be the start of arthritis

ganglion? There is no pic?

Sorry messed up there! I do have a couple of types of arthritis including inflammatory and my knuckles do hurt sometimes but the lump doesn't!

Is it squidgy? It looks like a ganglion

Looks like a ganglion cyst to me. They have a root that goes deep down into the joint and they are filled with the jelly-like synovial fluid that lubricates joints (like when people have surgery for a herniated disc in their back.) For the love of god, don’t take anyone’s advice and smash it with a Bible. You will probably break your finger. It can be aspirated with a needle, but will probably come back. Or surgically removed. I have had two huge ones removed from the back of my wrist. (I have a medical condition that causes them.) The scar is almost invisible!

Thanks for the replies!

@justilou1 was thinking it may be that and no I won't hit it with a bible!!

I'm expecting to get more of them to be honest, my knuckles don't exactly look normal! I'm lucky that I have osteoarthritis in other joints and inflammatory arthritis too!

Pleased you’re not going to whack it! (The number of people that told me to do that! 🤦🏼‍♀️) Mine was already dislocating my thumb and my hand surgeon looked at my hand, asked me a lot about my medical history, and at 48yrs of age diagnosed me with a health condition that would have saved me a lot of pain had I known about it when I was growing up!