Paging Medical Maggots: Possible tiny alien baby?

[shmerham]

This should probably go in gimp central, but I'm kinda looking for a quick response before I make an appointment with my doctor.

A week and a half ago I got a bruise on my side. I don't remember exactly how I got it, but I think I got it when I was standing in liftline, lost my balance, and fell. I'm much better at skiing than standing in one place.

It developed into quite the bruise: pretty dark, kinda blotchy. It was just above my hip and slightly to the front.

I have a hard spot where the bruise is. I only noticed this four or five days ago, can't be sure if it was there from the start. It's about two inches long, and maybe a quarter inch in diameter. It's seriously rock hard. If I press on it, it doesn't give one bit. It's right under the skin. I don't think it's internal.

Is this anything to worry about? ...or rather, is it anything I don't need to worry about?

[phUnk]

Well, I'm not worried about it.

Hope this helps.

[Trackhead]

If it is warm to the touch compared to surrounding skin, red, increasing in size, then it could be abscessed (infected).

More likely a collection of blood (hematoma) from the initial contusion that has consolidated. These can become abscessed as well, but not always.

Warm packs my help.

[gonzo]

that might calcify, no?

[truth]

It could be a tumor.

[crashnburn'd]

It could be a tumor.

IT'S NOT A TUMA!



*I have no evidence... Only speculation.

[summit]

color? pain? heat? pressure? pulsing? where on your side? see a doctor?

have you been having dreams about being in a movie directed by ridley scott or james cameron starring some androgenous actress?

[Schmear]

I searched and I searched and I couldn't find phUnk's Admiral Ackbar horse animated gif.

[Arty50]

You mean the pic of Ty's leg. A classic!

The link is dead, but here it is:

http://skiingismylife.com/summit2002/ronleg.gif

Paging phUnk!

[Schmear]

You mean the pic of Ty's leg. A classic!

The link is dead, but here it is:

http://skiingismylife.com/summit2002/ronleg.gif

Paging phUnk!

That's the one. The Ackbar comparision was my idea, I think phUnk's was the horse image. Wish both were still around.

[splat]

Aliens are so asexual. Yet, they're so into that probing thing.

I'm going with the baby implant.

[FNG]

Sorry, but I'm gonna need it back soon.

[shmerham]

color? pain? heat? pressure? pulsing? where on your side? see a doctor?

have you been having dreams about being in a movie directed by ridley scott or james cameron starring some androgenous actress?

color - just the color of the bruise which has mostly subsided

pain - none

heat - none

pressure - I don't feel it. I can only tell it's there because my fingers feel it when I touch it.

pulsing - nope

location - just above the widest part of my hip, and a wee bit towards the front of my body

dreams about an androgenous actress - of course

[snow_slider]

<Dad voice>Just rub some dirt on it and get going.</Dad voice>

[snowsprite]

I had a similar thing on my thigh from a bad fall a few months ago. It took almost a month to completely clear up. I had a doc check it out and he said it was just major swelling. If it did not subside he said he might have to drain it. Luckily it subsided. I did not do anything, not even ice it. Which made it take longer to heal.

I suspect yours will go the same route but see a doc if you're getting worried.

Sprite

[snowsprite]

I had a similar thing on my thigh from a bad fall a few months ago. It took almost a month to completely clear up. I had a doc check it out and he said it was just major swelling. If it did not subside he said he might have to drain it. Luckily it subsided. I did not do anything, not even ice it. Which made it take longer to heal.

I suspect yours will go the same route but see a doc if you're getting worried.

One question though: does it begin to shift around slowly and unpredictably after you drink caffeine?

Sprite

[altagirl]

I've had the same thing happen several times. Generally when I get one of those huge bruises, as it heals, the center loses the bruised color first, but underneath there's a hard spot - doesn't hurt after the initial healing, just feels like a lump. And then it takes a month or more to go away, depending on the size, but they've always healed completely. Sounds pretty normal for a big, deep bruise to me.

[Tippster]

Botfly. DefiNATEly.



That'll be a copay of $20 for your innerweb diagnosis, please.

[DJSapp]

Sounds like a subdermal hematoma. Go to the doc and get it drained before it calicifies like the one on my hip. I didn't and now I have a somewhat perminant reminder to exercise extra caution when above expose terrian. It won't kill you or anything, but it won't go down if that's what you're hoping for.

[lph]

I've had the same thing happen several times. Generally when I get one of those huge bruises, as it heals, the center loses the bruised color first, but underneath there's a hard spot - doesn't hurt after the initial healing, just feels like a lump. And then it takes a month or more to go away, depending on the size, but they've always healed completely. Sounds pretty normal for a big, deep bruise to me.

Ding, ding, ding!!! there is your answer.

nothing to worry about it. by your description not infected. it is simply a 'resolving hematoma'. don't go getting needles stuck in it. as above, warm packs may help it resolve quicker. massaging it may help.

[Below Zero]

I have to disagree. Your screwed man. You might be sprouting one of these....

[Telenater]

Botfly. DefiNATEly.



That'll be a copay of $20 for your innerweb diagnosis, please.

Damn, that's one well fed botfly. The lava I've seen have been longer and skinnier.

[Arty50]

Staaaaart...the...reaaaac....torrrrrrr...

[DJSapp]

Ding, ding, ding!!! there is your answer.

nothing to worry about it. by your description not infected. it is simply a 'resolving hematoma'. don't go getting needles stuck in it. as above, warm packs may help it resolve quicker. massaging it may help.

Just curious, how can you tell the difference between a 'resolving hematoma' and one like mine that I've had for a couple years now? When mine healed, the healing process was nearly identical to what AG described, but I got a lump on my hip. Minor infection? Alien baby inplant?

[lph]

Just curious, how can you tell the difference between a 'resolving hematoma' and one like mine that I've had for a couple years now? When mine healed, the healing process was nearly identical to what AG described, but I got a lump on my hip. Minor infection? Alien baby inplant?

can't. not really. it is just that in the vast vast majority of cases it is gonna completely go away just as AG described. however, scar tissue can form and in very rare cases if there is alot of muscle damage you can get myositis ossificans. however, just cause it feels hard doesn't mean you have a calcified lump left where the hematoma was. most likely it is just residual scar (which can feel hard as a rock).