Ganglion cyst/Synovial cyst

RE: Ganglion cyst/Synovial cyst

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:46:09 GMT

[quote user="Clare Tapsfield-Wright"]

They used to advise whacking it with a bible . I wonder who thought that one up

[/quote]It was probably the largest book that most people possessed. But perhaps the healing properties of a bible are just greater!

I still wack dislocated hips after reduction with a big textbook (don't possess a bible), in fact did so on a cat yesterday!

RE: Ganglion cyst/Synovial cyst

Catriona MacIntyre — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:39:16 GMT

[quote user="Clare Tapsfield-Wright"]

They used to advise whacking it with a bible . I wonder who thought that one up

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I had a ganglion on the inside of my left wrist. It was very hard and felt almost bony. It didn't show up on x-ray and took a while to convince the doctors that despite there being no bony changes, I did need something doing. Ultrasound scanned it and took them the pictures.

It's supposed to be a family bible you hit it with, but ours is at my parents house so I put the back of my wrist on a table and hit the lump as hard as I could with my confirmation bible.

What can I say? I was young and foolish. It was damn sore and did no good whatsoever and attracted some amount of scorn from my long suffering mother. I later had it surgically removed and enjoyed watching the operation.

RE: Ganglion cyst/Synovial cyst

Clare Tapsfield-Wright — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 22:18:16 GMT

They used to advise whacking it with a bible . I wonder who thought that one up

RE: Ganglion cyst/Synovial cyst

Silvia Maldonado — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 15:58:06 GMT

Got one since I was a child, and is still there, but so tiny I have to tell people, otherwise, no one notices it. No bothering me at all. Maybe we can set up a "ganglion club"

RE: Ganglion cyst/Synovial cyst

Martin Atkinson — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:52:25 GMT

Similar to Hannah, I had one a foot a few years ago. GP suggested surgery could be tricky: risk of damage to nerves. blood vessels etc. I did nothing and I forgot about it. Just checked and its gone!

RE: Ganglion cyst/Synovial cyst

Hannah May — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:08:00 GMT

No experience of treating them in animals but I had one myself on my wrist (at least I think I did, the GP just said ganglion, am assuming that it was therefore a ganglion cyst...?!) and it just went away by itself eventually! It was there for a few months before it went away though. Apparently the old school treatment in people was to hit them with something heavy so they'd go away...!! I am not advocating that treatment obviously!!