Any idea what this shoulder "button" is?

[alpinerabbit]

is it new? is it painful?

not likely an enlarged lymph node (or maybe? have you been fighting off a cold?), maybe a benign cyst/lipoma, maybe an enlarged bursa?

go and show it to your doc...

[Selkie]

Does it move around? Please go get it checked out.

[divingbiker]

is it new? is it painful?

not likely an enlarged lymph node (or maybe? have you been fighting off a cold?), maybe a benign cyst/lipoma, maybe an enlarged bursa?

go and show it to your doc...

It's been there for a few months, no pain, no recovery from a cold. It doesn't feel like the fat lumps my dogs have (seems to be attached and is fairly firm).

[Selkie]

Your big mole scares me, too (I've had some moles removed...). Please make an appt.

I wonder---do ganglion cysts happen at the shoulder, since it's a joint? I have one on my wrist - just showed up a month ago - doesn't hurt, doesn't move, is firm.

[divingbiker]

Your big mole scares me, too (I've had some moles removed...).

Actually, it's not really a mole, just a dark spot, and has been checked many times. That's what happens to 52-year-old skin after spending every day as a kid at the swimming pool getting blistering sunburns in the days before sunscreen!

I guess I'll make a doctor appt for January...

[Zen]

My diagnoses is benign abnormal cell growth.
DNA and RNA can only transcribe and transpose so many times before making an error in coding.

According to this Wikipedia article, it's not a ganglion cyst.

Twenty dollars, please. Payable in jam
can I call you Lumpy now?

[divingbiker]

My diagnoses is benign abnormal cell growth.
DNA and RNA can only transcribe and transpose so many times before making an error in coding.

Twenty dollars, please. Payable in jam
can I call you Lumpy now?

And so what is the treatment for benign abnormal cell growth, Dr. Zen?

You can call me Lumpy if you'd like, I guess, but it won't earn you any jam.

[Zen]

And so what is the treatment for benign abnormal cell growth, Dr. Zen?

Bed rest and sweets.