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Q: Liquid bubble on arm ?

asked by: pttc on May 11th, 2009

New User

8 days ago I noticed a bubble of liquid on my arm, sort of like a round, squishy blister. The liquid is yellowish in colour and the surrounding skin is reddened. I popped it with a sterilised needle and applied some witch hazel gel to it and it just scabbed over. However, I noticed another one a bit lower down my arm this morning... I went to the doctor's to see if they could tell me exactly what it was but he wasn't particularly helpful and didn't know what it was either, he just told me not to pop it. Many years ago I got the same problem on the bottom of my legs and I seem to remember a doctor saying it was some kind of spider bite.
I'm not sure if it is but last night I wore a long t shirt to bed with a hooded jumper over it as I was feeling a bit feverish... so I don't know how a spider could have gotten to my arm unless it had bitten me the day before and took a while to flare up? Please help! It's happened in a rather noticeable place and I don't know how long it will take to go away or if more will come up...

Replies(15)

worriedauzzi

replied on May 12th, 2009

Experienced User

It sounds like a boil.

pttc

replied on May 13th, 2009

New User

It's definitely not a boil, it looks nothing like one haha
Plus i'm pretty sure the doctor would have recognised a boil, he didn't have a clue what it was.
It's literally just a bubble of skin with liquid in it and it's soft to the touch, not hard in the slightest and it didn't start off as a sore area either, it literally just appeared! hmm.

deteragram

replied on May 14th, 2009

Supporter

It sounds like you have a lipoma.

"A lipoma is a common, benign tumor composed of fatty tissue. Lipomas are soft to the touch, usually moveable, and are generally painless. They grow very slowly, and in rare cases can become cancerous (Malignant liposarcoma also arises from fatty tissue.) Many lipomas are small but can enlarge to sizes greater than six centimeters."
You should be ok as long as you keep an eye on it for changes.

pttc

replied on May 16th, 2009

New User

Again, not that... It's filled with clear liquid, not fatty tissue... It popped the other day as gross as that sounds, and I must have itched it when I was sleeping, I seem to remember my arm being really itchy! Now it's just a sore area on my arm... looks like a layer of my skin is missing! Anything I should put on it to stop it getting infected? I don't know if I should put a plaster on it incase it stops it from healing properly.

deteragram

replied on May 16th, 2009

Supporter

Could it be a ganglion cyst? Ganglion cysts are filled with clear fluid.
I'm reluctant to suggest any treatment since you don't know what the bubble is. It may be something for a doctor to handle instead of trying to self treat it.

jtrrran

replied on June 3rd, 2009

New User

bubble

HEYYY. I am trying to figure out what it is also! My sister has been having weird tiny bubbles like that appear on her arm as well!

pttc

replied on June 3rd, 2009

New User

Do you think you could take a picture and send the link to me so I can tell you if it's the same thing that I got?
I haven't had any more, just the two I've mentioned and they've both just scabbed over now... Still have no idea what it was but I assume it was a spider bite.

mtb8

replied on June 6th, 2009

New User

Hi pttc,
my friend in Hong Kong is having the same skin problem as you, it sounds like. I have been looking online too. My guess is its Impetigo or some other bacterial infection. Be careful cause it is contagious. It can easily spread to your face if the juice pops. Let me know if you learn anymore.

sullysf

replied on June 30th, 2009

New User

Similar issue

My daughter has exactly the same thing as described here... a small bulb of what appears to be clear liquid inside. No apparent cause from a bug bite, but she's 8 so certainly could be that. She appears to have other bite marks elsewhere on same arm, although none have a clear bulb like this one.

cassey1234

replied on July 5th, 2009

New User

My daughter is 2 years old and also had two of those things filled with liquid appear over night on her leg and later that day one appeared on her arm. The two on her leg are scabbing and it looks so weird. My daughter doesn't seem to be scratching it and it doesn't seem to hurt her either. I am thinking it's a spider bite too, I just want to know if I can do something to get rid of that type of spider 'cause that is weird. I am becoming very paranoid now....lol!

pttc

replied on July 5th, 2009

New User

cassey1234, my bites appeared overnight too.
i got a few on my legs in a couple of instances but they happened when i was a lot younger, perhaps around the age of 12? i don't seem to remember what happened to them, but they haven't scarred. they did burst through no fault of my own though.
however i got a couple on my arm more recently which also burst... those have scarred! i'm unsure what kind of spider it is, i'm pretty sure the doctor told me all those years ago when i first got them but i can't remember...

nvizabullfred

replied on July 7th, 2009

New User

I have those to! ITS FREAKING ME OUT BECAUSE THEY ARE ON MY FACE! I have been looking around online and everyone seems to have it but no one knows what it is. I found a skinny cat outside and she was a sweetheart so i stated feeding her and letting her in the house and i thought it could be a reaction to her????

TechyHead

replied on August 27th, 2009

New User

Insect bite, don't worry

It's an insect bite. I have a very strong reaction to spider and mosquito bites which forms these bubbles with yellowish water-like fluid in them. If you pop it, sometimes it just refills and other times it dries up.

I wouldn't be worried about them at all as spiders are all over the place this time of the year.

Something bit me on the ankle yesterday and as I'm typing now there's an itchy bubble on my ankle. I'll probably leave it there for the day and drain it before vball later on today.

iamnivek

replied on September 22nd, 2009

New User

i have the same thing, and it's been here for like 3 months, if you ever get back on write me.

frapppacino25

replied on October 21st, 2009

New User

its probably a mosquito bite...i get them every time im bitten (i have one now on my leg) its b/c im allergic and theyre very itchy so thats probably wat u have too cuz its the exact thing i have from wat u described..hope this helps

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