How are you?

Last week I found a lump in my right armpit. It's round like a sphere, it feels like those small silver balls you used to secondary's cakes with. Remember those? They tasted vile haha. Anyway, it's just below the skin in my armpit, it isn't fixed inside the armpit wall or anything. I can get it between 2 fingers and wiggle it about and when I stretch the skin out it stretches with it.  I've been worried sick it's cancer because it doesn't hurt and is so firm.

Its been a week and it's not gone but it's not grown. I was hoping it would have started to shrink but it hasn't so much mines been racing. I'm crying ruling this. It's only small but it worries me. I even fiddled with it in front of a mirror and weirdly as i wiggle it side to side between my fingers you can see it's a white small ball just below the skin. It's the size of one of those small silver balls or a bit smaller than a petit pois pea. 

I hope you're ok.

Libby x 

Hey, 

You might not want to touch/ fiddle about with it so much, because it can probaly affect/infect or get worse otherwise. Just let your GP know asap, that's what I did, I know it's affects your mood and it's upsetting to look at but be positive you're not alone x

I found a lump in my armpit about three weeks ago. I finally saw a gp last week and was prescribed antibiotics. She seemed very positive these would clear it up. I have now completed the course and the lump is still there. I'm really worried now. We have a telephone consultation again tomorrow and I'm dreading it. How is everyone else?

Has it grown at all? I've had mine 2 weeks now and it's not grown at all. Still the same small round ball, firm but it moves between my fingers when I hold it. Mines still the size of one of those small silver balls you'd decorate cakes with. So it's pretty small. I'm giving it another week or so before I get an appointment. 
 

Let me know how you get on with your doctor. It's good your doctor was so confident and not concerned. I know how scary it is, I've the same anxiety xxxx

I felt like it reduced a little a few days into the antibiotics but I feel like it's bigger again now. 

That's reassuring it did start to get smaller. Is it firm? How big does it feel? 

I said this to hubby. The more I feel it the bigger it feels. So I've had days of feeling it constantly and I swear it's made it swell up in the area. If I leave it a few days it often feels smaller. It may not be but it feels it.

Hi Worried. 
 

How did your GP appointment go? I hope you're ok.

It was a telephone appointment and I was very disheartened by the outcome. Without even seeing how the lump looks now I have been prescribed a second week of antibiotics (a different one this time). I asked repeatedly for someone to have another look but was told there was nothing more they would do until I had completeted the course of antibitiotics. I really feel that this is more serious than the gp thinks. 
 

thanks for asking by the way!

Oh I'm sorry. I understand your worries as I'm thinking the same and I'm trying to monitor mine without panicking, it's hard not to worry it's more serious. If your GP has felt it before that's reassuring because they'd surely not expect you to wait if they thought for one minute it needed checking over. 
 

Mines painless  so if my GP gave me antibiotics I'd probably wonder if any point in taking them so i understand why you're disheartened. Do you have to go back after the course of antibiotics?

I have another phone consultation on Wednesday. 

I have another phone consultation on Wednesday. 

Keep us updated. I really hope it starts to go smaller for you. Mine hasn't and it's worrying me silly. I know how awful it is. Hugs x