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08/01/2012 02:53:00 AM · #1 |
| I had a white lump under my arm that was some kind of fibroma that I had removed 2 months ago. Thought it was a zit that just wouldn't go away (Or pop). Anyways, I found what I thought was a new one last week. Went to the dermatologist and he said it was something else, but I forgot to get him to write down what it was. He said it had something to do with veins or something just beneath the skin that have bundled up and popped through the skin. Since this is on my back I haven't had a close look at it. It's a normal color, just a pain when I use my back scratcher hit it. So the doctor used some dry ice or something to burn it. Now it's black and I have this urge to just rip it off...but he said if I had cut it off on my own I would have been bleeding quite a bit and that stitches would have been needed. He said that by freezing/burning it, it will move back under the skin or something...still, I'm wondering what it is actually called. I have to go in again next week and I will ask again, but if anyone has an idea, please feel free to guess... |
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08/01/2012 03:09:36 AM · #2 |
I don't know the official term but it sounds almost identical to something I have a few of. "Strawberry Hemangioma" or "Capillary Henangionma" seems pretty close to the right term based on my google searches.
It's essentially a small cluster of capillaries that grow outside of the skin. They are red in color because they are filled with blood. (You say yours is 'normal' color though?)
They are usually found in children but I'm 30 and my doctor wasn't at all surprised when I asked about it, so I guess it can occur in older people too. |
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08/01/2012 09:09:40 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by jadin:
"Capillary Henangionma" seems pretty close to the right term based on my google searches. It's essentially a small cluster of capillaries that grow outside of the skin. They are red in color because they are filled with blood. (You say yours is 'normal' color though?) |
Pretty much what it is. Or a "skin tag."
If they are big, then stitches, sure. I have cut a few off, but freezing them is better and easier. There is a wart remover out there now that you can freeze em with, or find bloodwort in powder form, make a paste and it will remove them also. Read about bloodwort before that though. Freezing easier with the little pen thing if you ask me.
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08/01/2012 09:16:31 AM · #4 |
| Yeah, my doctor wasn't at all surprised. It's not red in color, it's just regular (Or was) skin color. Now it's black...pain in the arse... |
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