Armpit lump confusion

[Ggirlangel93]

Update y'all. So I had my ultrasound done yesterday on both armpits. I read the results and everything came back normal. It said there were no masses, cysts, lymphadenopathy. It said I had benign appearing bilateral axillary lymph nodes and that these don't correspond to the area of the palpable abnormality. I'm obviously very grateful that everything is fine and came back normal. I'm just alittle confused about what happened then. How could me and my doctor clearly feel some sort of small moveable lump and then have nothing show up on the ultrasound? My doctor isn't in office till next week so I would assume we will discuss the results then and I will ask her what her thoughts are. My irrational brain though is worried that the ultrasound didn't see everything or that they didn't scan the whole armpit. Cause the "lump" I felt was towards the middle/top of the armpit. Im pretty sure they must have scanned the whole area cause why wouldn't they. Also the tech had asked me before she started to put a finger on the spot where I felt the lump. Any thoughts?

 

[Health anxiety suxs]

A couple of thoughts. A while ago I had a lump like area on one side of my groin. My doctor felt it also and sent me for an ultrasound. She said she wanted to rule out an enlarged lymph node and a hernia. The result was 100% normal: no issue with lymph nodes and no hernia. She said she had no concerns after reading the US report, and sent me on my way. Sometimes the body just does weird things.

Lipomas can appear anywhere in the body. They can be anything from pea size to several inches long/round. That might be what you have. Not sure whether the US would pick up a lipoma. Of course, lipomas are benign fatty lumps.

 

[MARCC]

You are in good shape as the ultrasound would have detected any abnormality.

 

[Ggirlangel93]

Update y'all. So I had my ultrasound done yesterday on both armpits. I read the results and everything came back normal. It said there were no masses, cysts, lymphadenopathy. It said I had benign appearing bilateral axillary lymph nodes and that these don't correspond to the area of the palpable abnormality. I'm obviously very grateful that everything is fine and came back normal. I'm just alittle confused about what happened then. How could me and my doctor clearly feel some sort of small moveable lump and then have nothing show up on the ultrasound? My doctor isn't in office till next week so I would assume we will discuss the results then and I will ask her what her thoughts are. My irrational brain though is worried that the ultrasound didn't see everything or that they didn't scan the whole armpit. Cause the "lump" I felt was towards the middle/top of the armpit. Im pretty sure they must have scanned the whole area cause why wouldn't they. Also the tech had asked me before she started to put a finger on the spot where I felt the lump. Any thoughts?

My doctor ended up calling me to discuss my results. She basically just read the report to me. I asked her what she thinks it was then and she said maybe it's a hair follicle from shaving. I don't see that being the case really considering it's painless and there is no dot or redness but whatever. Nothing makes sense. When I lift my arm I still feel some sort lump or something swollen in my right armpit and not in my left. I just hope the ultrasound tech scanned the whole armpit

 

[MARCC]

My GI physician once told me to stick with being a CPA and leave the diagnosing to him.

 

[Seryn]

Someone who's retired from decades of medicine said to me recently to try and trust your doctors. He said in this day in age trust is lost as people can Google and read bullet points of symptoms that they relate to and self diagnose. He said if having a medical career was as easy as diagnosing from bullet points on Google then why do drs need up to a decade of training and residency? Medicine is far more complex than diagnosing from a list of symptoms on google or everyone could be a doctor and all those years of training are pointless.

This helped calm me a bit and trust what the drs say when I have doubts.