I have a hard lump on my stomach what could this be?!?
Question:
About 3 weeks ago i was wheel barrowing dirt from my front yard to my back yard. I ended up impaling my self with the wheel barrow handle very hard, when the wheel barrow rammed itself into the dirt. So the wooden handle impaled me right in the stupach to the side of my belly button. A couple of days after that i got a huge bruise from it and it turned purple blue and red. About one week ago(2 weeks after the incident) The bruise started to go away and now it looks normal. But when i pressed on my stomach i noticed there is a very hard lump under my skin where the bruise was. It doesnt hurt when i press on it but its very hard and u cant tell theres a lump from the outside unless you press on my stomach. Do you know what this is or if this is natural if i impaled my self very very hard. Im kinda getting worried a little bit. i think i might have broken some blood vessels too when i did it. please dont say just to go to the doctor.
Answers:
when you have a very bad bruise mlike the one described even after the bruise is gone there will be a knot there for a while. its ok that happens sometimes. your gonna be just fine. and i dont think you need to go to the doctor unless the knot gets bigger instead of smaller and sometimes it takes a few months to go away i know it sounds odd but it will go away
Other Answers:
its the baby
It might go away soon so don't worry. You may have a hernia.
Most doctors would be hard-pressed to diagnose a lump without having felt it. The first and most important step is to make sure and have a hands on exam by your physician. Suspicious lumps may require further tests and/or biopsy to determine the diagnosis or rule out malignancy.
The most commonly seen lumps are benign fatty growths (lipomas), and benign skin lumps (sebaceous cysts). A physician can diagnose these easily on physical examination. Lipomas and sebaceous cysts generally require no specific treatment unless they become troublesome because of their size or location. Sebaceous cysts sometimes become infected, and need to be drained, and subsequently removed. Generally speaking lipomas are soft, not hard and defined.
In the midline an abdominal wall hernia or diastasis is always a possibility. Occasionally a patient discovers a "lump" in the midline below the breast bone, which is a normal anatomic structure called the xiphoid process.
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