Skin growths forming around mucocele.

[terribad]

I've had a scarred over mucocele on my lower lip (diagnosed by an oral surgeon) for about four months, it hasn't grown or changed at all, occasionally there's some clear fluid in it but if I massage my lip tissue with my hands, the fluid comes out. The first two months I had it, I was biting the areas around it quite a bit, both by accident and as a tic I developed to try to get the remaining fluid out, and a large, hard lump about the size of a dime formed where I was biting it (different than the first mucocele).

Since then, I've made a conscious effort to stop biting it and the lump has become two very soft and much smaller lumps (each is about the size of a small pinhead), but is still there. It doesn't look like anything in the mirror but it feels slightly smoother than the rest of my mouth.

The appointment I had to get the mucocele and assorted growths removed was supposed to be this coming weekend, but a work emergency has come up and it's looking more like I won't be able to get it removed for another three weeks. Is this safe? What do you think the surrounding

[terribad]

So the skin growths that have formed around the mucocele in the areas I've bitten are likely also harmless?

They just look like a raised area but you can't really see them other than that. They feel really rubbery and smooth to my tongue but they don't really feel like anything to my fingers. I have another pair of them on the other side that aren't raised, which makes me think it's just irritated skin.

[scottma]

Mucocele is a benign lesion. There will be no much difference if you delay surgical intervention.