Any Medical People ?

[ranirottie]

after my car accident I have been left with two tender lumps, one on my shin bone and one on my forearm. They are surrounded by a bruise like darkening of the skin but as its weeks now since the accident is obviously not a bruise.The doc says he thinks its necrotic fat. He says everyone has a layer of fat under their skin (me more than most) and if you hit it hard enough it dies and can take up to a year to disperse. As they are quite irritating and hurt to touch or catch on anything I was wondering if anyone else has heard of or had any experience of this? x

[Peachy]

I have no medical experience whatsoever Cher but just wanted to wish you well and hope the tenderness goes quickly and doesn't bother you too much

[ranirottie]

thank you for the kind thoughts x

[halfpenny]

after my car accident I have been left with two tender lumps, one on my shin bone and one on my forearm. They are surrounded by a bruise like darkening of the skin but as its weeks now since the accident is obviously not a bruise.The doc says he thinks its necrotic fat. He says everyone has a layer of fat under their skin (me more than most) and if you hit it hard enough it dies and can take up to a year to disperse. As they are quite irritating and hurt to touch or catch on anything I was wondering if anyone else has heard of or had any experience of this? x

 

i can vouch for that....I fell over a guy rope at a country show (sober) and hit my shin on the metal stake....I was 3 years before that lump disappeared still tender to this day.

[Karen]

I got a similar lump when getting out of the car in too much of a hurry. I had a white lump on my leg for about a year, then it started to look a bit bruised and now it's almost gone. I think its been 2 or 3 years in total, which is a bit of long time but it does eventually get better honest!

 

Hope your lumps at least stop hurting soon.

[snow]

Yep I'm another who can empathise when I had my fall last year I too have been left with a very tender lump on my shin, but I did manage to disperse the black bit with regular applications of arnica cream - it doesn't happen overnight but it does eventually start to get less and less visible and the massaging in of the cream also helped the area to feel less tender.

[ranirottie]

arnica cream is woth trying, thank you x

[halfpenny]

and the tablets they do work well

[alexis]

could they be haematomas? basically a bad bruise where the tiny blood vessels under the skin leak blood which collects under the skin and then clots so a clot sits under the skin. the clot cannot move anywhere or cause any harm but can be painful and takes a few months usually for the skin to reabsorb the blood.

[ranirottie]

but would that be hard? because my lumps are solid, I even thought my shin lump was bone because it is so hard. x

[halfpenny]

could they be haematomas? basically a bad bruise where the tiny blood vessels under the skin leak blood which collects under the skin and then clots so a clot sits under the skin. the clot cannot move anywhere or cause any harm but can be painful and takes a few months usually for the skin to reabsorb the blood.

 

You got it in one....can take years to absorb hence the arnica cream and tabs