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Menopause query

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Isabella40 · 15/02/2024 08:35

I am 49 I'm not sure if I'm going through the menopause had a coil fitted a couple of years ago due to heavy periods and fibroids.

I have found a small lump under the skin on my outer thigh. Nothing on the skin at first wondered if it was a bite but it's under the skin. It's not painful and I noticed it a couple of weeks ago. It is hard and a few cms in diameter.

I will contact doctor we have to complete online forms it's not easy to be seen. Just wondered if this is an age related lump anyone else experience something like this it's just in a weird place.

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DustyLee123 · 15/02/2024 08:37

I’ve found two fatty lumps on me that have appeared in peri. They haven’t changed in any way, so not had them looked at.

OooScotland · 15/02/2024 10:07

I’m 53 and have a couple of largish fairly solid lumps in my thighs that I noticed after I pulled a muscle last year. I’m pretty sure they’re not new or unusual so haven’t seen a doctor. Partly because I’m not worried, partly because its impossible to get an appointment (don’t get me started on that) and partly because it hasn’t crossed my mind (I was conditioned as a child not to waste the doctors time). I’m short, finding it infuriatingly impossible to lose weight and perimenopausal.

None of that is advice, obviously.

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Isabella40 · 15/02/2024 10:20

DustyLee123 · 15/02/2024 08:37

I’ve found two fatty lumps on me that have appeared in peri. They haven’t changed in any way, so not had them looked at.

Thank you I think they are fatty lumps will check with a pharmacist. The online form wants a photo not easy to take got daughter to take photo cannot see anything. I'm wondering now if it's a spider bite someone I work with was bitten same time I spotted the lump. Hers was nasty and infected.

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Isabella40 · 15/02/2024 10:24

OooScotland · 15/02/2024 10:07

I’m 53 and have a couple of largish fairly solid lumps in my thighs that I noticed after I pulled a muscle last year. I’m pretty sure they’re not new or unusual so haven’t seen a doctor. Partly because I’m not worried, partly because its impossible to get an appointment (don’t get me started on that) and partly because it hasn’t crossed my mind (I was conditioned as a child not to waste the doctors time). I’m short, finding it infuriatingly impossible to lose weight and perimenopausal.

None of that is advice, obviously.

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Thank you I don't feel it's anything starting to think it's an age thing or possibly a spider bite but I cannot see a mark. Noticed it around same time colleague had a suspected nasty spider bite at work which got infected. I hardly go to the doctors it's impossible round here everything is done online!!!

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DustyLee123 · 15/02/2024 11:59

Google Lipoma and see if it’s that, I’ve got a couple as I’ve aged.

OooScotland · 15/02/2024 14:28

Isabella40 · 15/02/2024 10:24

Thank you I don't feel it's anything starting to think it's an age thing or possibly a spider bite but I cannot see a mark. Noticed it around same time colleague had a suspected nasty spider bite at work which got infected. I hardly go to the doctors it's impossible round here everything is done online!!!

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Honestly, and I mean this kindly, if you’re now worrying it might be a spider bite because your colleague had one and you noticed this completely different thing at the same time…get it looked at by all means but you might also just want to try and calm down a bit health wise. The imagination can be a terrible thing.

Just by the by…my husband got a spider bite on his calf when he was in his thirties (he’s 51 now), straight away it was a massive blister, then an open sore that took four years of ulcer type treatment to heal. He still has big red crater of a scar.

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