Would you like to see what I just got out of my arm?

[greengoose21]

Ok, so for nearly thirty years I've had a little hard pea shaped lump in my upper arm. And every so often I'll try to pop it, squeeze it, whatever. Never any joy.

I tend to forget about it each winter when I'm in long sleeves, then when my arms are bare in summer I remember and start fiddling. This year for some reason (probably to do with being quite a bit skinnier) it has driven me mad. I've been fiddling with it constantly. Something had to be done.

Thankfully, after all this time, I now have a partner in sporn. A fifteen year old apprentice with a Sandra Lee education. This job wasn't ever going to be a single hander.

Tonight was the night. Tweezers sterilised, scalpel acquired from eBay. Cotton wool and TCP at the ready. Local anaesthetic courtesy of Anbesol, and it was time.

And would you like to see the lump of rock that (eventually) I got out?

I think I have something similar but it's not in a place I can really squeeze ...

It's a sebaceous cyst. I had some on my scalp which my GP cut out s few years ago. They looked exactly like that.

JUICY

You have made my Friday night, thanks muchly.

Take care of your arm and keep Lumpy in a specimen jar on your bookcase.

Ooh was it similar to my random arm lump before you went in for the big op? Mine is more like a small petit pois than a garden pea though. Had it for nearly two years now. Quite ugly and some times flakes dry skin off the top of it 🙈

I thought it looked like a cherry stone.

Very satisfying.

Encapsulation, whos?

Pleased to report my arm is healing nicely (forgot to take picture sorry, and am now in bed).

Lumpy has pride of place on my bedside table while I decide whether to keep him for posterity or see whether he'll go crunch if I take the nutcrackers/pliers to him.

Pibblestories, I have something like that on my thigh, but it's flatter than the arm thing was. I could roll the lump in my arm between my fingers...it really was just like having a cherry stone under my skin.

I have some of those lumps too, one in my thigh, one in my stomach that was very funny looking while heavily pregnant!

I have something like this on my neck.... I really want to remove it 🙈

Congratulations on raising a junior sporner OP

Did it ever occur to you to take it to an actual doctor? PMSL If it won't kill you the NHS will do nothing.

As this thread recently was recently awakened, I thought I'd post you lot a little Xmas gift.

When I left you last, I hadn't quite decided what to do with 'Lumpy'. He was just sitting looking at me from the bedside table.

Well eventually, I decided to crush him with a pair of pliers (as you do), to see if he was a hard as diamond. Turns out he wasn't....he just crumbled under the pressure. See pic (for those on the app who can't see photos...sorry)

Wow, that is quite something! Calcified cyst? Amazing!!

Nice.