Is there a Doctor in the house?

[Anonymous]

http://www.strangepuppets.com/misc/re_leg.jpg

This is behind my knee. That circled area is where there is a lump. I bruise easy so I am a bruise connoisseur, but this bruise (if that's what it is) is weird. The lump is small width wise and doesn't feel puffy or anything. It sort of feels like a pebble. The bruised areas don't hurt like bruises usually do. And the bottom bruise has weird cappilary things radiating out of the lumpy thing.

Anyone ever had something like this? WTF is going on here

1. blood clot
2. cyst
3. just a bruise
4. something else?

I'd go to the DR, but... you know....

I will probably just slice it open with a razor if it doesn't go away and see what's inside

[Cosmo Electrolux]

It's a Manitou

[Spooky]

Thats actually the inside of your arm, near the elbow.

Get off the heroin.

[Buffalo Tom]

http://www.strangepuppets.com/misc/re_leg.jpg

This is behind my knee. That circled area is where there is a lump. I bruise easy so I am a bruise connoisseur, but this bruise (if that's what it is) is weird. The lump is small width wise and doesn't feel puffy or anything. It sort of feels like a pebble. The bruised areas don't hurt like bruises usually do. And the bottom bruise has weird cappilary things radiating out of the lumpy thing.

Anyone ever had something like this? WTF is going on here

1. blood clot
2. cyst
3. just a bruise
4. something else?

I'd go to the DR, but... you know....

I will probably just slice it open with a razor if it doesn't go away and see what's inside

It looks like a bruise of some sort. If it gets worse, apply for citizenship in Canada, get your health card and then choose doctor to take a look at that thing. :(

[Zhukov]

Just cut it open a bit.

[Cosmo Electrolux]

don't cut it open! You'll piss off the Manitou and it'll be born a midget and Tony Curtis' corpse will rise from the grave and that old Indian dude...and the old lady will say PANA!!!!!! and then die....don't get and X-ray either. :(

[Stabby]

It might be a popliteal cyst.

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:CLIHtykociwC:www.genou.com/anglais/poplitealcyst/kystepoplite.jpg

Might be best to wrap the knee, maybe ice it down from time to time and rest it. If it persists you might to get fluid drained from it. Occasionaly they need surgery to be removed.

But yours seems small enough and will probably go away on its own..

[Protoclown]

IT'S AN ALIEN CHESTBURSTER...IN YOUR KNEE :chatter

[Spectre X]

that would make it a KNEE-burster :eek

[DamnthatDavid]

Try poking it with a stick

[Crimson Ghost]

It's a cyst or a bot fly larva.

[James]

Christ, do any of you people have an "off" switch?

Doopa, I'd seriously just suck it up and consult a doctor (free clinic?) after a few days of monitoring it. Given the position, I don't think it's wise to be cutting anything (wouldn't think it wise to begin with).

[Bennett]

I'd go the free clinic route as well... or there are some other clinics that aren't free but the visit is usually under $100... at least call around and see what your options are at this point. Sometimes the clinics will even give you free antibiotics (they get the sample packs from manufacturers that they will give you for free, so you don't have to worry about getting antiBYEotics or some crazy offbrand crap).

I would avoid slicing it at all costs, though.

[!!!!]

Christ, do any of you people have an "off" switch?

Do you have one? That would be so cool.

[Les Waste]

What I think he meant is that some people here can't not be facetious. And I completely agree with that. I think it's great that some people think they can bring laughter to the world, but when the height of somebody's comic ability is "poke it with a stick," then they need to let it fucking die.

And that sounds like a cyst to me.

[Brandon]

http://www.strangepuppets.com/misc/re_leg.jpg

This is behind my knee. That circled area is where there is a lump. I bruise easy so I am a bruise connoisseur, but this bruise (if that's what it is) is weird. The lump is small width wise and doesn't feel puffy or anything. It sort of feels like a pebble. The bruised areas don't hurt like bruises usually do. And the bottom bruise has weird cappilary things radiating out of the lumpy thing.

Anyone ever had something like this? WTF is going on here

1. blood clot
2. cyst
3. just a bruise
4. something else?

I'd go to the DR, but... you know....

I will probably just slice it open with a razor if it doesn't go away and see what's inside
It's inoperable. My deepest sympathies.

[Evil Robot]

That looks like a tick bite to me. Ticks and similar blood suckers like the skin on the back of your knees because its so thin.

[Big Papa Goat]

Did someone kill Jeanette X?

[DamnthatDavid]

You have something against people who poke things with sticks Les Waste? Sure, it's not a glamour job, but it's GOT to be done GOD DAMMIT!!!

But really, you could just be having a allergic reaction to some sort of insect, or arachnid. Some types of spider bites inflate, and as it is getting colder, more and more bugs and spiders move indoors.

[noob3]

this post made sense in my head and then i thought about it and re-read my post and it didnt make any sense at all

[Anonymous]

crapper

well, I am still trying to figure out if it's life threatening (that's the only reason I care). I called my mom about maybe it being an anurysm (sp?) but doesn't seem to be that.

This chick I work with is in her final semester of nursing school, so I showed it to her. She definately seemed to think it was something weird (ewww, wtf reaction), but didn't match up with a classic blood clot.

She also said I should go to a free clinic place here. You have to get there damn early monday. They only take appointments monday morning and they fill up for the week in like 15 minutes she said. So that will suck. I only have the interest to do so if I think it's something that could kill me like cancer or a blood clot.
She said chances are they will just tell me to go see a specialist if they think it's something to worry about. Then I'd have to pay for that anyway. So yeah.... I dunno what I am gunna do yet. She warned me not to cut it open because she said there are arteries back there. fucknutter

If it's just a cyst and I go through all that trouble I will be pissed!

[AChimp]

Don't you wish you lived in Canada? :P

[Brandon]

Don't you wish you lived in Canada? :P
TERRORIST! :eek

[Anonymous]

just got off the phone trying ti figure out what to do. I am gunna just wait and see. See if it pops or something. Yep.

[Brandon]

just got off the phone trying ti figure out what to do. I am gunna just wait and see. See if it pops or something. Yep.
Famous last words.

[Geggy]

As tempting as it may sound, i'd suggest you to try and avoid slicing it open on your own. it would only induce bacterial infection and yuo could put yourself into a much worse situation, like amputating you leg or something.

it looks like a cyst to me, though. i've had one before right on my chest. it was considered as third nipple. it was cool when they squirted it out.

[kahljorn]

I'm a cleebo pharmacist, if it's a disease I can get you fixy things.

[Perndog]

I had the same thing on my elbow for a while last year, a little bump that bruised for a while. I thought it was a vein until I pressed on it and it was hard (and hurt a bit). It worried me for a while, then I forgot about it and when I suddenly remembered and looked for it, it was gone. Oh well.

[Carnivore]

Hypochondriac :P

[Jeanette X]

Does it hurt you at all? Is it sore/tender/painful in any way? What does it feel like if you squeeze it a little? Is it less than 5 mm?
How come you bruise so easily, anyway?
http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/2cdoctorsbag.gif

[Geggy]

looks like somebody hasn't had enough milk to drink. calcium intake is the only way to stop from bruising.

[kellychaos]

Not that calcium wouldn't help but I think that some people are just naturally prone to bruising no matter what their intake.

[Jeanette X]

I thought vitamin C and E were important in preventing bruising. Maybe Re should take vitamin supplements.

[Skulhedface]

I don't know quite how or why, but it's my understanding that some people that bruise easily are anemic.

I've been to the doctor for something along those lines myself (easy bruising), and after he took some blood and got back to me, he told me that I had very low levels of iron in my blood, that I was anemic and that it contributes to how easily I bruise.

Something to think about, I suppose... try eating more iron.

[Snatchtastic]

Or you could eat some horse testicals.

[Jeanette X]

Bruising easily could have a variety of causes...but yes, iron defieciency is among them.

[Geggy]

you know what, you're right, it is the vitamin c and e that would help prevent from bruising, calcium intake would help make it more effective. but then if she was taking in too much of calcium it would result in developing cyst so it probably isn't a cyst on the back of her kneww, it's gotta be something else. oh well, looks like she's fucked. haha.

[Anonymous]

what the fuck happened in here
I don't have any deficiencies, I know why I bruise easily, there is nothing to do about it
we were supposed to be talking about my mysterious lump

anyway, it doesn't appear to be life threatening so I don't much care anymore. Just waiting to see if it goes away eventually. There is no doctor in the house

[george]

it is your twin sister. she wants out and half of everything you have.

[Skulhedface]

Oh... lumps...

umm, maybe a zit?

You'd have to tell us more about the lump (yummy).

Like... is it like cauliflowery or smooth, does it hurt to the touch, etc etc etc.

[Jeanette X]

http://www.dermnetnz.org/index.html
Does it look anything like this up close?
Or this? http://www.dermnetnz.org/index.html