Lump in tongue - I feel sick, wish I hadn't googled.

[Hangingbellyofbabylon]

I have had a lump about the size of a pea in my tongue for a few days. It is not visable from the outside but I can feel it if I pinch my tongue. The first day it felt tender when I squeezed it and felt fluid filled, now it doesn't hurt so much and feels more solid.

I just googled tongue lumps and the only thing I can find is about tongue cancer - I feel totally freaked out and will try to see the doctor on Monday but until then I know I'm just going to be worried and I know I won't sleep tonight now. I just can't have cancer, my family need me too much. I feel gutted.

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I know cancer of the tongue is really rare and I'm not in the risk groups but it's just weird that there is no other info about tongue lumps that aren't cancerous. Why did I wait till tonight to start looking this up?

my sister had a lump in her tongue a few years ago that sounded like yours. she had it out under general anaesthetic and was a bit sore for a while but that was it. think it was an enlarged saliva gland or somesuch so don't worry.

on the bright side she could only drink soup for a week and lost a stone. biattch

Be careful what you google. This time last year I spent a terrible night convinced I had kidney cancer and that I would not see my ds's (then 12m and 2.6yo) grow up.
Blood in my wee y'see, and I had googled to find out about it in the early hours.
Next day I rang NHS shaking and in tears. They asked some initial questions and one of them was 'have you eaten beetroot yesterday'

Yes I'd bought a huge fresh one the previous lunchtime and eated it all myself as dp hates it.

Blood in wee? Renal cancer? No, just too much beetroot

(Just wanted to lighten the mood, ring nhs direct if you can't wait to see the doc on Monday)

basically don't panic

its probably nothing. go to bed and stop worrying, and when you've been to the docs come back and enlighten us

www.netwellness.org/healthtopics/mouthdiseases/bumpsinmouth.cfm

some non-cancerous reasons for bumps on the tongue!

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well I read that GPs will only look at tongue lumps that have been around for more than 10 days. so I have made an appointment for monday next week so at least if it's still around then he won't tell me to go away and wait 10 days. In fact in the last couple of days it has really gone down in the last couple of days so I'll see how it goes. I think it is some kind of zit that is now going down

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Hangingbellyofbabylon.....can you tell me what you found out? I have the same exact thing right now.

I'm not OP but my teenage daughter had this and I was equally worried. She'd had them come and go but this one hung around and the gp referred her to have it removed. It was done quite easily under local anaesthetic. Being a hugely over anxious person I was convinced it was cancer despite it being highly unlikely, especially at her age. It turned out she'd been playing with her fixed brace with her tongue but the surgeon said it can be caused by rubbing teeth without realising it. Sometimes they resolve by themselves sometimes they don't. Needless to say it was benign. I know my daughter picked up on my worry.

Don't forget, if you attend the dentist regularly, your dentist will have spotted anything worrying at an early stage. Dodgy things tend to be slow growing.

Also, spicy food can cause these lumps.

Hope this allays any fears.

I have a spot/lump on the side of my tounge, I've had this for about 3 weeks I have been to the doctors who put me on antibiotics which did'nt do anything, I have to go hospital on Monday it's not painful but I'm obviously a bit worried NEED I BE please

I know this is i really old post but i was wondering what was the outcome? I am having the exact same symptoms and have been referred to the hospital waiting for an appointment and my anxiety is through the roof right now