Lump on head

[meg844]

About 2 months ago I was stung on my forehead by a yellow jacket.  Two days later my forehead and face began to swell.  I went to the doctor and was given antibiotics and a tetnus shot.  The swelling went down and all was good after a week.  Then after a month and a half, I woke up one morning and directly around the bee sting there was a round quite noticable lump that with ice, went down after a couple of hours.  Now today, I have had the same thing happen.  The lump is very distinct at first and then seems to disappate into my nose (between my eyes) and is gradually disappearing.  

I went to the doctor and she said that there was no stinger left behind and that there is some kind of pocket?? formed between my skin and muscle layers that is getting inflamed by other small infections in the area ie an infected pimple on my eyebrow.  Has anyone heard of anything like this?  I am very wierded out.

[meg844]

Thank you so much for your last response.  I woke up again today and the swelling wasn't in the bee sting area, this time it was down between my eyes only.  Do you think that because it wasn't so much in my forehead this time that it may be starting to heal?

[BhumikaMD]

Hi,

I can understand the trouble that you are going through.

It seems that the lesion is a remnant of the inflammation that took place when the bee sting happened. It may actually be compared to a weakness/scar in the underlying layers which is still healing, though superficially it appears to have healed.

This will decrease over time and it may take some time to heal completely.

Hope this helped. Let me know if you may need any more information.

Best regards