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A couple of weeks ago, I discovered a lump on my shoulder. It's on my right shoulder, about 1cm long, mobile, firm but not hard, and not painful at all. It reminded me of the lipomas that my Puppigrrl used to grow in great numbers on her chest when she reached middle age. Shoulder cancer?
It took me two weeks to remember to call Dr. Funnyname's office, but they agreed to see me the next day, to my relief. Said he, It's a synovial cyst. It turns out that the sacs of synovial fluid in the joints between your bones can get a small piece pinched off of them by repeated stress. That piece is then a cyst.
He described treatment, which is basically removing* them, but they typically only do that in cases where it's interfering with a patient's life. Mine definitely isn't; I'm not even all that sure how long it's been there. I asked Dr. Funnyname if such cysts ever go away on their own. "Maybe," he said.
I typically wear my purse across my body with the strap on my right shoulder. I have a good-sized bag with lots of stuff in it that I don't use very often. I might want to change that up.
*Usually, lancing them only makes them go away temporarily.
It took me two weeks to remember to call Dr. Funnyname's office, but they agreed to see me the next day, to my relief. Said he, It's a synovial cyst. It turns out that the sacs of synovial fluid in the joints between your bones can get a small piece pinched off of them by repeated stress. That piece is then a cyst.
He described treatment, which is basically removing* them, but they typically only do that in cases where it's interfering with a patient's life. Mine definitely isn't; I'm not even all that sure how long it's been there. I asked Dr. Funnyname if such cysts ever go away on their own. "Maybe," he said.
I typically wear my purse across my body with the strap on my right shoulder. I have a good-sized bag with lots of stuff in it that I don't use very often. I might want to change that up.
*Usually, lancing them only makes them go away temporarily.
