Lump on lower left abdomen

Hi I'm new to this but I feel like I need to talk to people who are going through similar symptoms to me as I feel like everyone thinks I'm going crazy for the bones of a year if not a bit more I have been getting on and off pain in my lower left abdomen there is a definite lump there that in my opinion seems to b getting bigger pain comes and goes in it at the moment it is really niggling at me ..my doctor can feel it but doesn't seem too worried . I've been for an abdominal scan a transvsiginal scan and a colonoscopy and all scans have come back clear my poo goes through waves of really loose stool or constipated sometimes with bright red blood in it my physio says she can feel the lump but wreckons when she manipulates it she feel the lump running through a muscle so she wreckons I have damaged it in some way but she says it def not q hernia I feel like the doctors keep. Fobbing me off I have asked for an mri or ct scan on numerous occasions and they keep telling me if there was a lump it would of shown up on the abdominal scan I just can't help but worry that there is something going on at least twice a month I wake up profussly sweating and I get random pains and cramps in my stomach when they did the trans vain gal scan it was so uncomfortable on the left hand side where lump is being felt but he said it was because of bowel wind  I just want to get to the bottom of it I'm sick of feeling like I'm going crazy 

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  • These are difficult times with Covid 19. I can feel a lump and a further mass in my lower left abdomen. Our GPs are seeing people but the first one I saw said she couldnt feel a lump, just a thickening mass. As I had breast cancer earlier this year I was concerned but thought that if she couldn't feel it maybe I was worried for nothing. However I could definitely feel a lump so had a second opinion,  the second GP said he could feel the lump but didn't think it was anything to worry about but he has ordered a scan to see if they can find out what it is. If you are still worried let your GP know and keep asking for a scan. Hope it works out well for you.

  • Hello everyone, I was reading through your posts and I was wondering if any of you had any results from your scans? I've also been feeling a hard mass in my lower left quadrant, I saw the GP and referred me to do a scan (just the fact he felt it too made it all scarier). I'm in the process to do it with a private health provider just to do it quicker but it'd be good to know what sort of results did you have? I'm not feeling pain apart from cramps on that side with air or before using the toilet, but it has triggered my anxiety therefore my whole abdomen and chest feel very tight. 
     

    thanks!

  • hiya!

    i hope you're feeling better. did u get results back? i'm an 18 year old female with what i THINK is a lump or lumps in my lower left quadrant. dull pain, quite uncomfortable and i seem to be struggling to make bowel movements. the lump(s) seem easier to feel when lying down. 

    i don't know whether it's a hernia, diverticulitis, ovarian cyst, etc. or something worse like cancer...or if i'm just constipated or something. i hope i haven't just been poking and pressing at an organ haha! but theres some dull pain. i'm very scared and confused. pain is slightly reduced for a bit after i pass wind.

    does anyone have any idea what this could be? thank you. 

  • Hi Oswaldpond,

    I hope by now you have gotten some answers and that things are okay for you.  I've found this post because I have symptoms very similar to the OP. I first went to the Dr due to quite a worrying passage of rectal bleeding, which was similar to a heavy period flow and painless, so I went to check off that it wasn't hemorrhoids or anything like that. I've had a niggling, dull ache in my lower left side, just above my hip bone, for a long time, but I'd passed it off as a twinge. However it's gotten more severe and is a constant pain now. It feels like there is a mass there; it's painful to lay on my tummy whilst I'm sleeping and I can't ignore it anymore when my little ones are on my lap. 

     

    Thankfully my GP has been very good and I feel that she's being thorough with finding the root cause of this. I'm referred for a colonscopy and she has also referred me for an ultrasound to check for an ovarian cyst. It hadn't occurred to me that it  could be a cyst, I had been thinking along the lines of diverticulitis, and trying not to think about the possibility of cancer. 

    Anyway,  I just wanted to drop a line to say you're not on your own  and that I hope your outcome has been an okay one.

  • Hi, I know your post is 3 years old now but was curious what your outcome was?

    I first found an abdominal lump lower left quadrant in October and it has since doubled in size. My GP first said it was poo! I have other symptoms, constipation, heaviness, loss of apetite, backache and so was sent to have the CA125 blood test which came back raised. I had two ultrasounds and was told they could only see Fibroids and now awaiting a CT scan. I'm extremely anxious as I also have the BRCA 1+2 gene. Also the sonographer said she could only see the left ovary in the abdominal scan. At this point I'm assuming the worst

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  • Hi, I know your post is 3 years old now but was curious what your outcome was?

    I first found an abdominal lump lower left quadrant in October and it has since doubled in size. My GP first said it was poo! I have other symptoms, constipation, heaviness, loss of apetite, backache and so was sent to have the CA125 blood test which came back raised. I had two ultrasounds and was told they could only see Fibroids and now awaiting a CT scan. I'm extremely anxious as I also have the BRCA 1+2 gene. Also the sonographer said she could only see the left ovary in the abdominal scan. At this point I'm assuming the worst

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