Lump in neck?

IAmACat

Hi Ladies, just sharing a little paranoia that I hope is just that--paranoia.

Tonight, I was rubbing my neck and felt a pea-sized, hard lump under the skin of the back of my neck. I internet searched for breast cancer metastases in muscle, thinking that was not possible. However, on pubmed, there are two case studies of two very unlucky ladies who had muscle metastases--one in her abdomen, another in her buttock muscle. That's when breast cancer literally becomes a pain in the a**.

I am going to call my cancer hospital tomorrow and ask them to set me up with someone who can look at it. If I am going to have something improbable happen to me, I would rather it be winning the lottery, not cancer.

trinigirl50

It does seem improbable, get someone else to see if they can feel it as well. I am Stage IIIC like yourself and believe me, every single lump bump ache or pain convinced me I had cancer. My husband gets small cysts on his back and back of neck. Sometimes we have to lance them and squeeze them out. Weird but true. They feel like small hard lumps under the skin.

I hope your lump is nothing but an inflamed pimple or an mosquito bite.

ksusan

Hoping for nothing, but I'm for checking out any new bump.

KBeee

Always get new lumps and bumps checked, but in the meantime, remember that the chances are very, very good that it is something other than cancer, so assume it is something else unless proven otherwise once it's checked.