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So, I might be dying
« on: December 14, 2015, 03:38:14 am »

Maaaaaybe just an exageration, but i'm just a teensy bit terrified because there's a lump in my abdomen. A few days ago my belly button started oozing pus and blood, I thus cleaned it out every three hours, applied polysporin and all that, called it a day. Sometimes your body parts ooze blood and pus. It happens. Did it for the next three days up until now.

Today, right as I was about to go to sleep, I was, naturally, gently caressing my obviously rock-solid abs, and I happened to notice a very highly noticeable lump above my belly button. Now see, blood and pus I can handle, but lumps are scary and make me think of cancer. On the one hand - no better excuse to skip finals than "cancer". On the other hand, uh, cancer.

Please tell me it's probably not cancer.

P.S: I also feel pretty weak, but i'm pretty sure that's just because of the pants-splitting terror I feel every time I move and feel a dull ache emanate from the lump.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2015, 03:54:31 am »

Holy shit man, dont scare me like that ha ha.  if it is a tumor, which is unlikely for your age, its entierly possible for it to be a benign one, and absolutely meaningless.

Possibly apendicitis.

Dont be an ifiot tho, and go to the doctor.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2015, 03:58:02 am »

After looking it up, most results (like, dozens of people with the exact same stuff I described) seem to say it's a hernia, which i'd need surgery for, which, well, sucks, given the timing and all.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2015, 04:23:24 am »

After looking it up, most results (like, dozens of people with the exact same stuff I described) seem to say it's a hernia, which i'd need surgery for, which, well, sucks, given the timing and all.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2015, 07:06:06 am »

Well, at least you're not pregnant haha. Hope this resolves itself, man, and go see a doctor asap!
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #5 on: December 14, 2015, 07:23:52 am »

Yeah, it sounds like a hernia, which sucks because you'll be prone to it re-occurring under core pressure and stress (IE. anything fun).

Fortunately, you are young enough that if it is a hernia, you'll have a better healing factor that us old farts.

One way you could see if it's a hernia (probably not doctor recommended) is to try to tuck it back in with your fingers. *shudder!
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #6 on: December 14, 2015, 07:49:52 am »

I feel like this is above BHB's paygrade. Go to a doctor.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #7 on: December 14, 2015, 08:14:43 am »

I feel like this is above BHB's paygrade. Go to a doctor.

But 'Poke It With A Stick' is tried and true medical science!  ;D
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #8 on: December 14, 2015, 09:21:21 am »

Merry Christmas from the universe, I guess.

Hernia surgery isn't usually an emergency.  I've known a lot of people who had them, and they usually put off the surgery until it was convenient for them to take a few days off work.

:( feel better.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2015, 11:10:19 am »

Wait, does that mean I can't work out intensely? I mean, it is actually something I rather enjoy doing :(
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #10 on: December 14, 2015, 11:47:04 am »

Yeah.  After the repair surgery you're not supposed to lift anything heavy for like, 4 weeks.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #11 on: December 14, 2015, 12:10:50 pm »

If you're lucky (relatively speaking), it could just be a bad abscess, which a nice lancing should fix right up.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #12 on: December 14, 2015, 12:24:13 pm »

Oh god no, abdominal abscesses are so, so much worse.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #13 on: December 14, 2015, 01:23:53 pm »

I'd take an abscess over not being able to work out any day. I pride myself greatly on my strength, this would suck so hard

Isn't much anyway, I can ignore it well enough.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #14 on: December 14, 2015, 02:08:16 pm »

Don't ignore it you madman!

Seriously, if it is a hernia, you could easily blow more entrails out the tear! Then you would be even more likely of a repeat later on.  :P

Take the day off and go see a doctor.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2015, 02:12:17 pm »

All this talk of squishy innards is giving me the willies!  ;)

Anyway, I hope it's just something inane that antibiotics will clear up.
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« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2015, 02:32:59 pm »

Oh no, I meant I could ignore the pain from an abscess (which is the reason it sucks) if that's what I have, I know a hernia doesn't magically fix itself XD

Seeing a doctor on the 17th, going to try and hold off on surgery until after the 21rst (my last exam).
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2015, 02:34:25 pm »

I'd take an abscess over not being able to work out any day. I pride myself greatly on my strength, this would suck so hard

Isn't much anyway, I can ignore it well enough.

Nooo.  Abscesses were what I had after the appendicitis. I had a drainage tube sticking out of my back for a month. & it took like, weeks after that before I could do stuff again.

If you ignore an abdominal abcess you will actually die. 
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« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2015, 03:28:57 pm »

If I ignore any strange lump that appears in my abdomen I will die. There are no good options here XD

But an abcess at least won't have long term effects. I can get it drained and have surgery and everything, ignore the pain that comes later, and then continue living my life. Muscle weakness in my abdomen means I'll never be able to play football or work out intensely without risk again.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2015, 04:04:18 pm »

This might not have helped, on second thought.
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2015, 05:31:41 pm »

Lightweight sounds like a hernia, I've had a couple  before. Just go to the doctor and have them check you out. As long as you avoid heavy lifting, you should be fine.

Don't know if it's like this for everyone, but every time I had one, one of my testes grew larger than the other. Check yaself mi Breda.
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« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2015, 05:45:57 pm »

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As long as you avoid heavy lifting, you should be fine.

I'm a football player and my primary workouts are heavy lifting, so this sucks beyond belief to hear, haha.

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Check yaself mi Breda.

Way ahead of you.


How many times have you had them?
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« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2015, 10:36:31 pm »

Ive had two, and neither pained me enough to really impact my daily activities. You recall suffering any sharp pain during a particularly rigurous workout? More than usual, of course.
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« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2015, 10:40:38 pm »

I'm a football player and my primary workouts are heavy lifting, so this sucks beyond belief to hear, haha.

Way ahead of you.


How many times have you had them?

If Playa can jump a weed dealer, you can probably play football.
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« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2015, 11:20:28 pm »

Noooo, don't listen to him Drak. Football is waaay more intense than fighting just one person. Especially for your abdomen.
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« Reply #25 on: December 15, 2015, 02:36:28 am »

Ive had two, and neither pained me enough to really impact my daily activities. You recall suffering any sharp pain during a particularly rigurous workout? More than usual, of course.

There was just one thing I did before I noticed the hernia that worked out my abdomen, was doing an exercise where I would pull myself up till my arms were pressed against my chest and hold my legs perpendicular to my body and keep that position held for about 15 seconds, then go down and repeat.

The blood and pus started way before that though, kinda came out of nowhere, think it may have been caused by some abdominal stretching I did in a martial arts and then was exacerbated by my usual exercises.

You know, assuming it's a hernia, still got two more days before I actually find out.


I feel as if Sent overstimates weed dealers/understimates the brutes you face in football XD
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« Reply #26 on: December 15, 2015, 02:43:49 am »

I mean the guy was around 35 years old, but still. Fights last about a minute tops until someone gets put to sleep, and even then its just your face that gets the worst of it. You're not consistently slamming into giants at top speed over the course of an hour.
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« Reply #27 on: December 15, 2015, 06:54:42 am »

Don't know if it's like this for everyone, but every time I had one, one of my testes grew larger than the other. Check yaself mi Breda.

What's with the water balloon in your pocket man? LOL!  ;D
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« Reply #28 on: December 15, 2015, 08:35:04 am »

Hey Drak, what if it's some weird sort of parasite, that burrowed in through your naval, and is currently incubating right there in your belly as we speak?

(Just thought you should consider that...)

~you're welcome.  ;D
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« Reply #29 on: December 15, 2015, 12:30:08 pm »

So to add a medical perspective filtered through humour...

There are indeed parasites that could be growing in there that would give the exact symptoms. The two major options sadly are based in South America and Australia however it is possible one got imported and infected you, rather than getting in through the belly button though they would have been injested in your food, then burrowed through your gut lining before forming a protective layer around themselves in your abdominal cavity and growing there, somthimes they live half inside and half outside the gut and feed off your food, this can lead to a vitamin B deficiency just to warn you.

Just think, they could cut them out of you and you could keep them preserved in a jar :)

More boring is the Hernia option, trying to poke the part of the bowel back through the abdominal muscle yourself is possible but awkward, and only works if it is indeed a hernia. This option is also boring and easily solved either by massaging it back (medical massage) through or a simple surgery (you could still do some workouts but would need a few weeks off sports.) It is relatively common in people who work out a lot so is the most likely option, however it is normal and boring so let's move on...

Cancer! Sadly your symptoms don't match most of the common types but there are one or two rare types it could be which could involve surgery and multidirectional radiation therapy which is actually pretty cool and interesting (from my perspective since I can do it and from a technical perspective it is very advanced, clearly not from the patients perspective though). You also get to try being bald. But yeh cancer isn't too fun and your symptoms don't really match so let's move on to...

Giant Cysts! It could deff be a giant gooey cyst. You can even think of these as wierd giant internal spots all full of puss and goo. If they drain them, you can also often see the syringe full up with your own puss, it makes you suddenly crave milkshakes! All that lovely infection and yellows sludge mmmmm tasty looking. There is even the option of you accidently bursting it INSIDE your abdomen! Saving the best for last, you could stick a big hollow needle in your belly button and up into the cyst then use it like a belly button hose and squirt it out at people every time you squeeze your belly.

And there is your mini, humorous round up of your possible illness!
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Re: So, I might be dying
« Reply #30 on: December 15, 2015, 01:03:42 pm »

:( they all suck

Fingers crossed for the cyst
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« Reply #31 on: December 15, 2015, 02:05:02 pm »

Oh my god yes forge. 

When I had the one abcess drained, it was like a gallon ziploc full of chicken gravy. It was really hot, too.
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« Reply #32 on: December 15, 2015, 02:13:31 pm »

I feel as if Sent overstimates weed dealers/understimates the brutes you face in football XD

You're probably right. My entire weed dealer experience consists of 5'11" farmer boys in John Deere hats behind bleachers with at least one scary gorilla cousin on standby, whose entire combat experience comes from football and wrestling, and all of whom probably hit like space shuttles. If I actually got close enough, I'd probably hear Deliverance banjos too.

Not that I've bought weed, but it's pretty difficult to miss them behind those bleachers. Unless you're a teacher, or a cop, or any law-enforcing authority, for that matter. Maybe it's just because I always head that way on my way home, though.
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« Reply #33 on: December 15, 2015, 06:57:29 pm »

Shit man, good luck.
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« Reply #34 on: December 17, 2015, 07:50:33 pm »

AWWW YEAH, IT'S A CYST!!!

Downsides: the doctor spent a sold 5 minutes pressing down on and squeezing by lump to try and see if pus would come out, and it hurt like a bitch. Then, for some utterly inexplicable reason, she had to feel up my balls.

I also have to wake up suuuuper early tomorrow to get a scan to see if they have to surgically drain it or if it's close enough to the surface that it's no problem and I can just take antibiotics for it.
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« Reply #35 on: December 17, 2015, 07:51:52 pm »

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« Reply #36 on: December 17, 2015, 08:46:08 pm »

:p. Didn't you say you could just ignore pain? Xd

Seriously, really glad to hear it's not anything permanent.
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« Reply #37 on: December 17, 2015, 08:49:56 pm »

I could ignore the pain when someone wasn't squeezing on the mass with all their (admittedly rather negligible but still enough to be painful) strength XD

Thanks Seth :)
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« Reply #38 on: December 17, 2015, 08:55:43 pm »

Dammit Drak, you screwed up my whole goddamn scheme!

I already passed out the fliers, hired a team of workers, and plastered the internet with ads about the Canadian football player who refuses to let Cancer get in the way of him achieving his dreams in the NFL.

The city council was swept up in tears about my proposal for the local fund raiser, and then you had to go and mess it all up by not even having cancer!

Fark you, man.
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« Reply #39 on: December 17, 2015, 11:50:55 pm »

Lol, happy to hear, man.
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« Reply #40 on: December 18, 2015, 07:16:51 am »

I'm going to go out on a limb here (much like your doctor haha!) and guess that ye ol' squeeze play on the lower forty was to double check for hernia.

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« Reply #41 on: December 18, 2015, 09:07:39 am »

Grats man, glad to hear it's just a cyst!

Oh and ball squeeze is a great double duty check, helps towards ruling out a groinal hernia and testicular cancer in one awkward moment :)
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« Reply #42 on: December 18, 2015, 09:09:56 am »

Yay! To drak not dying.
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« Reply #43 on: December 18, 2015, 12:44:27 pm »

Woo!
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« Reply #44 on: December 18, 2015, 01:01:15 pm »

Yay! To drak not dying.

Yay! To Drack making it to third base! LOL! XD
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« Reply #45 on: December 18, 2015, 02:28:23 pm »

Aww man Fark these guys. Went back again today at 7 and just got out now. Had two ultrasounds, each with the applicant seemingly doing their best to make my cyst recede into my gut through pure force. Then some condescending Farkhat showed up and literally spent 10 minutes just trying to explode the damn thing. Okay, he was trying to get cultures to find out what was up but i still didn't like him. Is it common practice for doctors to talk to their patients like they're five year olds? His mind appeared to be blown when he realized I understood the "big words" he was using.
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« Reply #46 on: December 18, 2015, 03:15:55 pm »

That's Nasty!  :D
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« Reply #47 on: December 18, 2015, 04:15:44 pm »

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« Reply #48 on: December 18, 2015, 04:46:06 pm »

Yup, welcome to being a patient. Most doctors just assume everyone around them are idiots.
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« Reply #49 on: December 23, 2015, 12:17:35 pm »

Goddamit.

So, consulted a surgeon today (of course it was early in the morning and I waited three hours, why do you ask?). This guy was miles ahead of sir Farkhat, quite polite and pleasant. He also basically told me sir Farkhat didn't know what the Fark he was doing and that this was way too deep for a sebaceous cyst. He thinks it's something congenital and scheduled me for a full abdominal ultrasound (the earlier two were too superficial and didn't really give any clear results; if this doesn't work I'll ger a CAT scan).

On the bright side, sir Farkhat prescribed me anti inflammatories and anti-biopics which I've been taking religiously and I HAVE improved, the whatever it is has shrunken down massively and all pain coming from it has disappeared.

Unfortunately, my parents are getting panicky and stupid, insisting I go to a different hospital because clearly the doctors here are idiots who don't know what they're doing. Won't let them Fark things up of course, I know it takes time to figure some things out, haha.
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