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When you say "it's hard like cartliledge or bone", which is it, soft like cartiledge, or hard like bone?
Bone feels like rock. Feel your wrist bone - does it feel like that?
Or does it feel like cartiledege - like the tip of your nose?
I have a lipoma on my skull that has been there 48 years. Feels like cartiledge. It's totally harmless.
Best wishes.
Tiffiny
We are having it checked Wednesday at 2pm -- Any other ideas would be great. You are all making me feel much better - Thank you!
Any thoughts?
Me and my husband are very concerned.
We have taken her to the doctor twice for the bump.
We also notest the bump about 1 month ago it first felt like soft cartilage. and it was very small about the size of A pea.
it has grown somewhat larger in size it is know about the size of A thumb, and know feels like A bone.
The doctor told us not to worry as well that it is most likely part of her bone structure.
I am so stressed because of this problem.
Thanks to everyone for help.
Thanks for all the answers and advice on here, it's great!
Arica
My son has this dime-sized lump on his forehead since he was one month old. This lump is not so hard, but like a cartilage under his skin. In the beginning his paedia thought it may just be a dermoid cyst but the second doctor thought the location was a bit higher than where you normally find dermoid cysts (justat the tip of the eyebrow closer to the ear). So we consulted a Paediatric Neurosurgeon last Saturday. He thinks its nothing more than a benign cyst as it has not gotten any bigger than when we first noticed it.
He is 4 months old now and it never bothered him nor does he cry when we feel it. Nonetheless, we want to make sure, so the doctor suggested that we take him for an MRI. This being safer over-all than CT scan - which still uses Xray, also, the dye/ med used is safer for infants than what they use in CT scans. Lastly, more complete results can be determined so the baby only has to go through a test once to determine what it is. If its benign, which is most likely, we'll just leave it alone.
I've had his pedi order xrays and ultra sounds of it and they said it was a muscle. I'm still VERY worried about it since his twin brother has neuroblastoma cancer and has to start chemo in a couple of weeks. They have never tested his brother for neuroblastoma regardless of how much I have begged.
He also has a hard little lump on his left hand in his palm where the index finger meets the palm. It moves a little, and seem to be about the same hardness as a hard cartlidge (not like the cartlidge in your ear, harder than that, but not quite bone).
It's very worrisome to me to have these issues going on with my son when his twin brother has cancer, and no one will check him out!
I've been trying to find out on my own what it is!