finger lump

[tamborine]

got a strange lentil sized lump above finger nail (paler color than skin)....not a blister nor painful its been there for 2weeks; any ideas ?

[LoftyLottie]

Look up mixoid cyst.

http://www.emedmag.com/images/DXfeb01.jpg

[LoftyLottie]

Actually google

"Mixoid Cyst Finger" Quite a lot and a lot on Images as well.

I had one for a couple of years. It got quite big and them did a miraculous disappearance virtually overnight. GP told me they are quite common near arthritic finger joints.

[merciasounds]

Could be a ganglion - a kind of cyst - I remember my mother having one and the doc hit it with a copy of Grey's Anatomy, he said it should have been a Bible, but he didn't have one to hand!
Failing that, does that area get rubbed alot? I noticed that i had a small lump on the outside edge of my right index finger, then when I was peeling potatoes I realised it's where the the knifeblade 'sits' right next to the haft and it rubs me causing like a ridge of hard skin

[tamborine]

I've been poisoning weeds & thought I was allergic to some plant ?

[LoftyLottie]

Is it a hard lump?

[LoftyLottie]

Is it at the tip of your finger or at the base of the nail? If it is at the tip of your finger then probably not what I suggested.

[tamborine]

Just like the picture shown LL....hope its not early arthritis ? Will smack it with a free english copy of koran given out on High street :)

[LoftyLottie]

Don't do anything to it if it looks like the picture. I tried and mine got infected. I don't think it is a ganglion. Mine grew quite large and started covering the nail, the nail then grew a funny shape. Then suddently it went.

I don't think it is a sign necessarily that you will get arthritis, but, as I said, people with arthritic fingers often get them.

[LoftyLottie]

To quote another AB'er

No Big Deal

(But no ibuprufen and 'wait and see')

[Sqad]

lofty....never heard of a mixoid cyst?

[LoftyLottie]

Sorry Sqad "Myxoid" You knew what I meant !!

[Sqad]

Ah!...............that one ;-)