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i have a massive....ganglion!!
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a few months ago this lump seemed to appear on my hand/wrist border, almost overnight.
It didnt hurt and I looked on the internet and it seemed to be a ganglion, which is a build up of synovial fluid and nothing to worry about. So i forgot about it. I had a holiday from work and it actually almost disappeared, so yay i thought
Anyway its appeared again, bigger than ever and now it seems to have a smaller twin just next to it.
Im pretty sure it is one of these ganglion things, and im not at all worried about it, but sometimes my wrist aches a little, it makes my wrist look really wierd, and it also sits in the position where i like to have my watch face sit, which means i can no longer wear a watch, which is annoying.
Therefore I would like it to go (even though i'd secretly miss it a little), i dont want to bash it with a bible but i have heard they can be surgically removed.
I just wondered if anyone else has a similar ganglion experience, or has had them removed or anything?
It didnt hurt and I looked on the internet and it seemed to be a ganglion, which is a build up of synovial fluid and nothing to worry about. So i forgot about it. I had a holiday from work and it actually almost disappeared, so yay i thought
Anyway its appeared again, bigger than ever and now it seems to have a smaller twin just next to it.
Im pretty sure it is one of these ganglion things, and im not at all worried about it, but sometimes my wrist aches a little, it makes my wrist look really wierd, and it also sits in the position where i like to have my watch face sit, which means i can no longer wear a watch, which is annoying.
Therefore I would like it to go (even though i'd secretly miss it a little), i dont want to bash it with a bible but i have heard they can be surgically removed.
I just wondered if anyone else has a similar ganglion experience, or has had them removed or anything?
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How big is it? If it's not big enough they won't do anything to it. First of all you can try and get it drained, which hurts for a bit but can reduce it enough that it's live with-able.
Also consider someone whacking it for you. I haven't done the actual whacking thing, but I did have it burst when ex-Boy got annoyed with me and pushed my hand away. It hurt like hell (I have weak tissue there which is why I have the ganglion in the first place, but it hurts like fuck, especially when I bend my hand backwards, and most especially when that is forceful and unexpected), but it worked.
I have a really physical job and i notice it aches during the evening after a days work
Im too scared to get anyone to hit it. plus it sort of risks damaging my actual hand/wrist, which is extremely feeble and skinny!
maybe a trip to the doctor to see about draining it then!
ETA: hard to explain the size of it, I suppose with its twin they are like a kidney bean
I think that might be a little small for surgical removal. Mine is about an inch or so across, but it's not very raised (you can't see it unless I bend my hand forwards), and they wouldn't do anything to it.
Bear in mind that with draining it will probably come back (mine did), but I did find that it helped with the pain. My wrist tends to ache after I've been doing very hands-on things (it hates me knitting, for example), so I'm not surprised yours hurts
The doctor sorted by hitting it with a Bible. Jesus saved her.