i have a lump on my lower lip. it started feeling like a very tender pimple was forming on friday. by late in the day saturday it was about the size of a marble, and now it's about the circumferance of a quarter. it is deep in my lip (not near the surface on the inside or outside) and hurts so badly. i feel like my lip is going to explode. i went to the minor emergency clinic yesterday and they gave me antibiotics, but it has not changed at all. the clinic dr did not speak english very well, but it seemed like he did not think it was a mucocele because it hurt in the beginning. i guess to me it seemed more likely that i would have a painful mucocele than just some random lip infection.
here's a pic saturday http://netsavior.com/netsavior/ks/swollen%20lip.jpg , and one from yesterday. http://netsavior.com/netsavior/ks/lipmonday.jpg
if it gets worse i'm going to the er. my dr can't get me in for a couple of days.
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*very* Painful Lump...
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Mine kind of blew up like that at onset, but it never got quite that big, and never hurt unless I tinkered with it.
If I were you, I'd try to get an urgent care appointment with a primary care doc and then ask for a referral to an ENT specialist from the primary care doc. If it is diagnosed as a mucocele, and they want to cut it out, be sure to read the warnings elsewhere in this forum about asking plenty of questions first and ensuring that your ENT doc is experienced.
You may even want to consider having a plastic surgeon do it. ENT docs and oral surgeons are board certied in treating disease, so removal of the disease process is their focus. Given that a mucocele is not cancer, the priority is to remove the thing while retaining/restoring symmetry, and it seems that a plastic surgeon would be best trained for such an endeavor.
But, I think the most important thing is to get someone who is experienced and someone who confidently tells you that you need not worry about symmetry. Ask plenty of questions, and make sure you are comfortable with the responses.
Good luck.
If I were you, I'd try to get an urgent care appointment with a primary care doc and then ask for a referral to an ENT specialist from the primary care doc. If it is diagnosed as a mucocele, and they want to cut it out, be sure to read the warnings elsewhere in this forum about asking plenty of questions first and ensuring that your ENT doc is experienced.
You may even want to consider having a plastic surgeon do it. ENT docs and oral surgeons are board certied in treating disease, so removal of the disease process is their focus. Given that a mucocele is not cancer, the priority is to remove the thing while retaining/restoring symmetry, and it seems that a plastic surgeon would be best trained for such an endeavor.
But, I think the most important thing is to get someone who is experienced and someone who confidently tells you that you need not worry about symmetry. Ask plenty of questions, and make sure you are comfortable with the responses.
Good luck.
Hey Aja,
I have the exact same thing, its driving me insane, to top things off I discovered that my employer has lost my health insurance info in the damn waiting room and they turned me away, so for the time being im on my own. (which is illegal i think)
anyway what happened, was this actaully a Mucocele? Your story sounds story sounds exactly like what im dealing with, eager to find out what the heck this thing is inside my lip :(
I have the exact same thing, its driving me insane, to top things off I discovered that my employer has lost my health insurance info in the damn waiting room and they turned me away, so for the time being im on my own. (which is illegal i think)
anyway what happened, was this actaully a Mucocele? Your story sounds story sounds exactly like what im dealing with, eager to find out what the heck this thing is inside my lip :(
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