bursitis and other lumps...

[subaqua]

rather pigging annoyed.

lovely elbow bursitis on left elbow. looks like a fricking golf ball ...

and a ganglion on the left wrist just at the base of thumb.

no idea what i have done to make it happen.

anybody had either and how long doid it take to clear up. dont fancy the needle drain off.....

 

[Slick]

I've just gained the family trait of a small ganglion on the forehead. Is it still called a ganglion when it's on the forehead?

Is the elbow painful?

I don't think you need to do anything to make them appear but I think they can go away on their own. I was thinking of asking the doc to drain mine but I'm not sure.

 

[Drago]

I've had elbow bursitis twice. My bursa was damaged when I broke my elbow, and it occasionally thanks me by filling up and looking like I've grown an extra scrotum. Not particularly painful, but mine never seem to go down and so ended up hav I g to get them drained, which can only be done by GPs qualified to do surgery. That bit did hurt!

 

[classic33]

Had the bursa drained in hospital in '88, still not right.

Steroid injection five years afterwards was the only thing that eased the thing.

 

[slowmotion]

I had bursitis on my elbow about five years ago. A bashed my elbow on the edge of a door and it swelled up sideways into a huge lump about the size of a medium tomato. It looked ghastly but didn't hurt at all. I wore a tubigrip thingy and it disappeared after about three or four weeks. I've got a photo of it somewhere but it's not suitable for family viewing.

Good luck.

 

[tamiya]

rather pigging annoyed.

lovely elbow bursitis on left elbow. looks like a fricking golf ball ...

...
anybody had either and how long doid it take to clear up. dont fancy the needle drain off.....

Left elbow bursitis, grew overnight to size of grapefruit.

Stayed that way for 3 days didn't subside so I went GP, got a course of "decent" antibiotics...

Shrank a few days later; I got thru 1st course & halfway thru Repeat before I lost interest in popping those pills.

 

[vickster]

Left elbow bursitis, grew overnight to size of grapefruit.

Stayed that way for 3 days didn't subside so I went GP, got a course of "decent" antibiotics...

Shrank a few days later; I got thru 1st course & halfway thru Repeat before I lost interest in popping those pills.

Hopefully you won't now be resistant to it and others in the same antibiotic class in the future

 

[Drago]

Thats a real problem - over use of anti biotics is accelerating the resistance of many organisams to them. Conversely, nowt so useless as a medicine that you can't take today for fear that if you need it next year it might not work. That's a genuine headache.

 

[Salar]

I've also got one on my left elbow. Perhaps we need a special club. Mine looks like a bone is sticking out.
Had it for approx 20 years now.

When it first appeared it was slightly painful, but not any more.

It did burst once, luckily I was beside a sink as the amount of peas soup which came out was sickening.

 

[Dayvo]

I've got a ganglion between my little and ring finger on my left hand. It's about the size of a baked bean and is very (dead?) 'ard.

A doctor friend of mine advised me not to have it removed on the grounds that too many nerves would be damaged cutting it out.

I also have a smaller one in the middle on the inside of my right wrist. A bit of inconvenience with the larger one, but neither hurt.

 

[tamiya]

Thats a real problem - over use of anti biotics is accelerating the resistance of many organisams to them. Conversely, nowt so useless as a medicine that you can't take today for fear that if you need it next year it might not work. That's a genuine headache.

that... & the fact nobody's discovered anything new in many decades

Plus the amt of vancomycin level aBs getting doled out in hospitals now is already scary... that's the last line of defence afaik... you can 'smell' how serious it is when they come scrubbing the floor daily with chlorine bleach and wipe down every surface with chlorohexidine.

(Don't hang around hospitals if you don't wanna get sick...!)

 

[User169]

I had one on my elbow earlier in the year which was golf ball size. I think it was the aftermath of a bike crash where I bashed my elbow.

It didn't seem to want to go down, so I did a DIY drain. Hot knife in the cooker flame, then wiped down with ethanol. Man, the amount of fluid that came shooting out. Swabbed it with iodine, put a plaster on for a few days and that seemed to do the trick.

[Disclaimer: I am not advising anyone do the same]

 

[Drago]

Holy Trump Father of Jesus, I feel faint after reading that!

 

[User169]

Holy Trump Father of Jesus, I feel faint after reading that!

There are videos on YouTube.