Please, please do come back and update me when you get your blood results. I am surprised that the lump is somehow connected to inactive TB infection, simply because I don't find such lumps associated with inactive (or latent) infections; and with active TB, the symptoms are cough, pain, weakness, fatigue, weight loss, lack of appetite, fever, chills and night sweats.
And here is the CDC's site about TB and latent TB:
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/
I have no doubt that you could, indeed, have latent or inactive TB, but it seems odd that it is related to this lump.
Has anyone mentioned the possibility that this is a lipoma to you? (Not lymphoma -- that is something different. Lipoma.) They are slow-growing lumps of tissue that are benign but can be bothersome, and they feel exactly as you describe. Here's the Mayo Clinic page on Lipomas. Be sure to click on the links down the left side that go to Symptoms, Causes, Treatments and so on:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lipoma/DS00634
When you lift something that weighs more than 5 pounds, does the lump hurt?
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Emmaley,
Please, please do come back and update me when you get your blood results. I am surprised that the lump is somehow connected to inactive TB infection, simply because I don't find such lumps associated with inactive (or latent) infections; and with active TB, the symptoms are cough, pain, weakness, fatigue, weight loss, lack of appetite, fever, chills and night sweats.
Here's a good page about active vs. inactive:
http://www.palomar.edu/healthservices/services/TB_361.pdf
And here is the CDC's site about TB and latent TB:
http://www.cdc.gov/tb/
I have no doubt that you could, indeed, have latent or inactive TB, but it seems odd that it is related to this lump.
Has anyone mentioned the possibility that this is a lipoma to you? (Not lymphoma -- that is something different. Lipoma.) They are slow-growing lumps of tissue that are benign but can be bothersome, and they feel exactly as you describe. Here's the Mayo Clinic page on Lipomas. Be sure to click on the links down the left side that go to Symptoms, Causes, Treatments and so on:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/lipoma/DS00634
When you lift something that weighs more than 5 pounds, does the lump hurt?
November 30, 2009 - 9:06amThis Comment
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