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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Arthritis / June 2006Bump on wrist
Hello! My boyfriend just called me from work and said he just developed a small bump on his wrist today ( he really just got it today) and doesnt know what it could be. He said its the size of a grape and it doesnt hurt, but it is starting to hurt pretty bad because he's touching it. Anyone know if this is serious, or if it could just be some sort of cyst or something?He is pretty worried. Thanks, NewMama >Hello! >My boyfriend just called me from work and said he just developed a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >Thanks, >NewMama Well we are not doctors, nor do we play them on television. LOL It sounds as though it could be a ganglinpn cyst. He should check with a doc to be sure. Rose @}>->-- Being educated means that rather than fearing the unknown, one seeks to understand it. RB Please remove "Ima" to reply. >Well we are not doctors, nor do we play them on television. LOL >It sounds as though it could be a ganglinpn cyst. He should check with [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Please remove "Ima" to reply. Sorry for the typo, I meant "ganglion cyst". Rose @}>->-- Being educated means that rather than fearing the unknown, one seeks to understand it. RB Please remove "Ima" to reply. >>It sounds as though it could be a ganglinpn cyst. > Sorry for the typo, I meant "ganglion cyst". You mean it's not good advice for a "ganglinpn cyst"? :-) I agree with Rose. It does sound like a cyst. Got to let the doc take a look though. It probably isn't serious. debbie m. > I agree with Rose. It does sound like a cyst. Got to let the doc take > a look though. It probably isn't serious. > > debbie m. I agree with Debbie and Rose - could well be ganglion cyst, check with doc. If it's painful, pick up a wrist brace at the store to wear until he gets in to see the doc - they do help with ganglion cysts, in fact they are the first line of treatment. With the long holiday weekend here in the US, he may need some help in getting through until he sees the doc.  SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare Top Posted: I had a similar bump, about the size of a pea. I intended to watch it and if it changed or got bigger I would call the doctor. This was before I was diagnosed with RA. It was not sore or did not hurt. I actually played a little game pushing it around my hand (yes, I was VERY bored). Later that day, doing something stupid, I smashed the back of my hand into the wall - and poof, the bump was gone. Must have burst and absorbed into my skin. To this day I have no idea it was. MB > Hello! > My boyfriend just called me from work and said he just developed a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks, > NewMama > Top Posted: > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >> Thanks, >> NewMama It's almost surely a gangleon, a small sack of fluid from the joint that typically appears of the wrist or the back of the hand. An old country doctor told me that the traditional treatment was to get the patient to lay his hand out on the desk and then get him to look away and whack it with a book. It bursts and the fluid drains away. I used to get them on the left wrist when I played bagpipes. Better treatment is surgical if it doesn't go away. It could be a ganglion. I had one on my wrist and they took the fluid out of it years ago and it has never come back. He should see his doctor and have it checked out. My sister had one and they thought it was a ganglion but was filled with blood clots. So don't let him hit it with a book as some people think this is the thing to do to avoid going to a doctor. > Hello! > My boyfriend just called me from work and said he just developed a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks, > NewMama Top Posted: I would _never_ suggest hitting it with anything to burst it. Mine was plain stupidity during another activity ( we are remodeling the main bath, a DYI) and accidentally slammed it. I am _not_ a professional and I was not on closed course - do _not_ attempt this at home ! :) Although I was lucky that it worked, I could just have well ended up with a nasty infection. Now that I have RA I am officially revealed of bathroom remodel duty - cannot pick up a dang thing or hold on to anything. MB > It could be a ganglion. I had one on my wrist and they took the fluid out > of it years ago and it has never come back. He should see his doctor and [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Thanks, > > NewMama I understood when you said it Mary. I was thinking of my sister when I wrote this, someone told her to just bust it with a book. I think it was our mother if I'm not mistaken, but had she done this, she could very well have died with the blood clots as they weren't expecting to find them. She went in for outpatient surgery and ended up in the main surgery. So when I got one I went to the doctor. You didn't do it on purpose and was very lucky. Although what happened to my sis could have been rare, I really don't know. > Top Posted: > [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> > Thanks, >> > NewMama One thing to know about ganglion cysts, sometimes they feel real hard and other times they feel soft and mushy. Sometimes they feel severe pain, sometimes they feel very little pain. One thing that I do know is that if not dealt with the will keep getting bigger and bigger... Ganglions are caused when some of the tissue between bones on the wrist or foot "herniates" or bulges and the lump forms. They are very easily dealt with but if not taken care of can cause a plethora of problems. > Hello! > My boyfriend just called me from work and said he just developed a [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Thanks, > NewMama > One thing to know about ganglion cysts, sometimes they feel real hard > and other times they feel soft and mushy. Sometimes they feel severe [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> Thanks, >> NewMama And sometimes they do go away. The one on my wrist has come and gond for thirty years now. Right now it's gone again. Show it to the doc and see what he says, as I undersatand it there is a simple surgery and there is a complicated one. The simple one often works and complicated one always does, but can be more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps things have changed now. I think it's one of those things that if it isn't painful or hideous you don't worry about it. If it hurts get it fixed. >> One thing to know about ganglion cysts, sometimes they feel real hard >> and other times they feel soft and mushy. Sometimes they feel severe [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > changed now. I think it's one of those things that if it isn't painful or > hideous you don't worry about it. If it hurts get it fixed. Mine hurt, I couldn't bend my wrist, I used to groom dogs and did a lot of damage doing it. I got the ganglion, carpal tunnel and tennis elbow all of which had to have surgery. Too much rapacious movements. After close to 30 years of working with the animals, I finally gave it up when my knees were getting too sore to go up and down the stairs. I really hated quitting as I loved what I did. But the doctor went in with a syringe and pulled the liquid out of it and it hasn't come back and that was about 15 years ago, so I guess I was very lucky. On Wed, 7 Jun 2006 9:35:38 -0400, Pope Pie \(Sy Lehrman\) wrote (in message <Lc-dnRiTDIq6SxvZnZ2dneKdnZydnZ2d@rapidnet.com>): >> One thing to know about ganglion cysts, sometimes they feel real hard >> and other times they feel soft and mushy. Sometimes they feel severe [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > now. I think it's one of those things that if it isn't painful or hideous > you don't worry about it. If it hurts get it fixed. Ganglion cysts CAN go away and CAN get much better with only bracing. For ganglion cysts in the wrist, wearing a brace is the treatment of first choice these days. Breaking the cyst by force is NOT recommended! Also, surgery is the treatment of last resort these days - only for refractory cysts that are causing great difficulty for the patient. Ganglion cyst have a high rate of recurrance following surgery and the no-longer-recommended breaking by force, so invasive methods aren't recommended unless truly necessary. Why do that if it's gonna come back again? But the vast majority of ganglion cysts on the wrist will calm greatly with bracing and may entirely go away with persistent bracing. When mine kept re-appearing, I began to wear the brace the moment there was ANY hint of the cyst. Once it was gone, I wore the brace for sleeping and anything that strained it (such as moving.....) for about a year. I haven't worn a brace on thta wrist at all for over a year now and there's been no hint of the cyst, despite some heavy working with it at times. It's amazing what a little wrist brace can do! (all of this about recommended treatment I learned via Google over a weekend and later confirmed with my docs). SignatureNann remove the Gator cheer to email me Simply the thing I am shall make me live --- William Shakespeare |
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