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 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. 

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

Hi , 

i have lump ( rubbery and  painless and movable . I think size not grown)in my both armpits since 18 months .. i never thought this was consern about something . I thought its fat as i gained too much weight during pregnency . three weeks back i reliased .. since then i started toching and squeeze it started arm pain and joint pains .. i called to gp they gave appointment on 9 th june. I couldn't sleep and keep thinking about worse .literally crying alot .please anyone has same kind of lump ..

Hey I have the same problem, I'm only 14 though, so I have this lump under my armpit which I can also move around, it just feels like a ball, I noticed this just about a year ago but I was in lockdown, I haven't went to the doctors because I haven't really had any problems and due to covid i couldn't get any appointments, it hasn't grew in size, but it is kinda big and visible but I've been feeling fine for a whole year, when I move my left arm where the lump is it kinda hurts but not that much, just feels sensitive and it's very rare a girl my age would get cancer, I've searched everywhere on google about this but it's just scaring me, I have no problems with it but I just wanna know if it is dangerous, I really don't wanna go to the doctors, idk if this lump is a big deal or just nothing to worryabout, can you give any tips please or do you know anything that would at least provide relief and ease my thoughts about this?

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Hey all, the Internet is such a dark place and can really send you on a spiral, I'm in the same boat, had a tickly feeling under my armpit for about 2-3 weeks and overnight a lump appeared but I can only feel it if I press on it, it really really hurts as well. Examined by a nurse practicioner this AM and she had a good feel of my breasts and armpits and neck and said she can't see any shaving scratch / ingrown hair so has said it maybe a cyst / enlarged lymph nodes and given me antibiotics for a week, if not cleared up then a scan. But I think the more I worry the more poorly I get with more symptoms sometimes! We are all in this together! :-) 

Hey all, the Internet is such a dark place and can really send you on a spiral, I'm in the same boat, had a tickly feeling under my armpit for about 2-3 weeks and overnight a lump appeared but I can only feel it if I press on it, it really really hurts as well. Examined by a nurse practicioner this AM and she had a good feel of my breasts and armpits and neck and said she can't see any shaving scratch / ingrown hair so has said it maybe a cyst / enlarged lymph nodes and given me antibiotics for a week, if not cleared up then a scan. But I think the more I worry the more poorly I get with more symptoms sometimes! We are all in this together! :-)