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I'm so tired of this crap.

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mollyfin

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I have something that I thought was a blood blister but I think it's actually an abscess with old blood in it, because it looks black/bruised and is a big squishy lump. I gave it a few days, it didn't improve, so I'm seeing a derm in a week to find out what to do about it.

And now I'm just sitting here like, but what if it's IBC? What if I get sepsis? What if it's some other cancer?

Why can't I just be normal? I wasn't bothered by it until out of nowhere I suddenly was.

Also it seems I might be prediabetic (I've gained a lot of weight in the last six months; no exercise and lots of stress eating), so I have something tangible and test-verified to worry about but I'm just like "Gotta cut out the ice cream, I guess, now about my lump."
 
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The odds of it being anything sinister are very, very low.
HA always has us thinking the worst. Trust me, I’m there with you right now.
 
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I have a really nasty blood blister on my left heel from too much walking. Black, squishy just like yours. Repeated striking of the heel on the pavement in skater shoes. I know that it's gonna be there for a couple of months cuz that's the nature of these things. This can happen if you hit something accidentally or something like that. But as bigjetplane6 said, the chances of it being anything even remotely dangerous are extremely low.
 
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mollyfin said:
I have something that I thought was a blood blister but I think it's actually an abscess with old blood in it, because it looks black/bruised and is a big squishy lump. I gave it a few days, it didn't improve, so I'm seeing a derm in a week to find out what to do about it.

And now I'm just sitting here like, but what if it's IBC? What if I get sepsis? What if it's some other cancer?

Why can't I just be normal? I wasn't bothered by it until out of nowhere I suddenly was.

Also it seems I might be prediabetic (I've gained a lot of weight in the last six months; no exercise and lots of stress eating), so I have something tangible and test-verified to worry about but I'm just like "Gotta cut out the ice cream, I guess, now about my lump."
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It doesnt seem like something serious like cancer, it seems like an infectious bump that has blood in it. When it happens to me, i pop them, but a blessing or a curse comes from doing that.
 
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Thanks guys. Hoping that's all it is. Doctor wants me back in two weeks for a biopsy if it's not gone by then. Really hope it is, but it hasn't improved at all, so I'm not holding my breath there.
 
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