OT: Painful lump in groin...hernia??
On Friday I noticed a painful lump in my groin near where my leg crease and vagina meet. The pain travels down the left side of my labia. It is warm to the touch. Do not see any ingrown hair or anything like that. It is getting worse. On Friday I found it while showering. It hurt a little while washing the area, but other than that it didn't bother me. Today it hurts to walk and the lump is a little bigger. It is NOT excruciatingly painful or anything like that. I do not feel like I need pain medicine, but it does hurt.
I called today and made an appt for tomorrow afternoon.
But I was wondering if any of you have had an inguinal or femoral hernia? If so, were the symptoms similar to what I am explaining? I suppose it could just be an enlarged lymph node and it's more painful because I keep messing with it to feel the lump.
Felicia
Your description of the location of this lump is rather vague to me - your VAGINA is inside your body, not on the outside near your leg crease. So I can't tell from your description whether this lump is INSIDE your outer labia or not.
The reason I'm asking is that 30+ years ago, I discovered a lump INSIDE my outer labia near the OPENING to my vagina - and I mean a HUGE lump - almost the size of a testicle. It was a Bartholin's cyst (http://www.bartholins.com/ - there are pix), which required surgery to fix.
Thanks...I'll try to explain better. It is on the outside on the left side of my mons...the pain extends down the outside of my labia toward my rectum but stops before my vaginal orifice. Mine is not huge like yours was...I would estimate it is the size of a normal-sized marble. I'll let you all know what the doctor says after my appointment tomorrow.
Felicia
I'm thinking mine might be a boil or a cyst. I shave in that area and probably have an ingrown hair. I don't see a pimple in that area, but it could be that it just needs to come to a head. We'll see. Thanks again!