(Diagram Included) Are the clogged pore-like things below my armpits my lymph nodes draining?
This is a strange question and I'll try to word it as clearly as possible...
a 22-yr-old female who has a massive history of illness in my family, from breast cancer, uterine cancer, colon cancer, and brain tumors, to diabetes, the account goes on and on. This has always made me vastly fearful that I'll get something and I've become a bit of a hypochondriac, so I don't know if this question is a valid concern or just me mortal easily scared.
Anyway, my question is that beneath my armpits I have noticed (where "B" is on the diagram below:
that I have tiny raise areas that are filled with a substance. They look like white head, they're very tiny but they're long and thin, like a thread, but no bigger than a centimeter respectively. They have no color or texture, they look just like my everyday skin, only something underneath. I thought they were whiteheads originally so I squeezed one (sorry to be graphic/gross) and a little bit of a white substance come out like it would if it were a whitehead. Something soft and oily characteristics of. So I just assumed it was nothing, only just oil from my skin. But then I heard from one of my aunts that the breast cancer one of my other aunts have had infected her sentinal lymph nodes, that the sentinal lymph nodes are like the first row of a few rows of lymph nodes, and that they are above/on the side of the breast/ under the armpit. Which is roughly where I'm noticing these tiny raised pockets of fluid, I don't know how else to describe them.
Anyway I'm going to see a dermatologist soon so hopefully I'll find out for sure consequently, but does anyone out there know what I'm talking about? Have you ever experience this or do you know what it is? Is it run of the mill? Should I be concerned that it could be a precursor to breast cancer? I appreciate any information you may offer. Thanks a lot.
Answers:
meggy - Relax a bit. Both in the armpit areas and surrounded by the groin, there are specialized sweat glands, known as apocrine sweat glands. Hidradenitis suppurativa (hi-drad-uh-NI-tis sup-u-ra-TI-va) is a chronic skin inflammation of the apocrine sweat glands marked by the presence of blackheads and one or more red, tender bumps (lesions). The lesion often enlarge, break open and drain pus. Scarring may result after several recurrences.
idered a severe form of acne (acne inversa), hidradenitis suppurativa occurs gaping in the skin around oil (sebaceous) glands and hair follicles. The parts of the body artificial — the groin and armpits, for example — are also the main locations of apocrine sweat glands.
Hidradenitis suppurativa is a condition where those glands tend to start after puberty, persist for years and worsen over time. Early diagnosis and treatment of hidradenitis suppurativa can give a hand manage the symptoms and prevent new lesions from developing. Source(s): a medical professional
with out looking at pictures it will be hard to diagnose what it is you have- however i can describe you they are not your lymph nodes. a consultation with the dermatologist will be a good place to start
Lymphnodes do not drain through the skin.
ked sebaceous glands (pimples) and blocked sweat glands do!
The sentinal node is the lymph node closest to the cancer site.
Several of them were found to enjoy microtumors. These were undetectable through anything less than microscopic biopsy, and certainly be not leaking through my skin.
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a 22-yr-old female who has a massive history of illness in my family, from breast cancer, uterine cancer, colon cancer, and brain tumors, to diabetes, the account goes on and on. This has always made me vastly fearful that I'll get something and I've become a bit of a hypochondriac, so I don't know if this question is a valid concern or just me mortal easily scared.
Anyway, my question is that beneath my armpits I have noticed (where "B" is on the diagram below:
that I have tiny raise areas that are filled with a substance. They look like white head, they're very tiny but they're long and thin, like a thread, but no bigger than a centimeter respectively. They have no color or texture, they look just like my everyday skin, only something underneath. I thought they were whiteheads originally so I squeezed one (sorry to be graphic/gross) and a little bit of a white substance come out like it would if it were a whitehead. Something soft and oily characteristics of. So I just assumed it was nothing, only just oil from my skin. But then I heard from one of my aunts that the breast cancer one of my other aunts have had infected her sentinal lymph nodes, that the sentinal lymph nodes are like the first row of a few rows of lymph nodes, and that they are above/on the side of the breast/ under the armpit. Which is roughly where I'm noticing these tiny raised pockets of fluid, I don't know how else to describe them.
Anyway I'm going to see a dermatologist soon so hopefully I'll find out for sure consequently, but does anyone out there know what I'm talking about? Have you ever experience this or do you know what it is? Is it run of the mill? Should I be concerned that it could be a precursor to breast cancer? I appreciate any information you may offer. Thanks a lot.
Answers:
meggy - Relax a bit. Both in the armpit areas and surrounded by the groin, there are specialized sweat glands, known as apocrine sweat glands. Hidradenitis suppurativa (hi-drad-uh-NI-tis sup-u-ra-TI-va) is a chronic skin inflammation of the apocrine sweat glands marked by the presence of blackheads and one or more red, tender bumps (lesions). The lesion often enlarge, break open and drain pus. Scarring may result after several recurrences.
idered a severe form of acne (acne inversa), hidradenitis suppurativa occurs gaping in the skin around oil (sebaceous) glands and hair follicles. The parts of the body artificial — the groin and armpits, for example — are also the main locations of apocrine sweat glands.
Hidradenitis suppurativa is a condition where those glands tend to start after puberty, persist for years and worsen over time. Early diagnosis and treatment of hidradenitis suppurativa can give a hand manage the symptoms and prevent new lesions from developing. Source(s): a medical professional
with out looking at pictures it will be hard to diagnose what it is you have- however i can describe you they are not your lymph nodes. a consultation with the dermatologist will be a good place to start
Lymphnodes do not drain through the skin.
ked sebaceous glands (pimples) and blocked sweat glands do!
The sentinal node is the lymph node closest to the cancer site.
Several of them were found to enjoy microtumors. These were undetectable through anything less than microscopic biopsy, and certainly be not leaking through my skin.
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