[Trombone-l] ?Lip cysts?

[Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Franconia DPW]

No guessing?  No guessing?  

Kind of unfair.  

Well, this is what a doctor told me when I got a lip bashed pretty good
playing basketball.  He said with my type of injury, the risk was that a
little piece of outer lip often got buried and then later started to grow.
If that happened it could be cut out, but he didn't want to do it because
he'd had bad luck with them regrowing.  He called it a lymphocoele, I'm not
sure of the spelling.   Is that the same thing as a cyst?  I dunno.  As it
happened I never had any further trouble from it.  So I guess this isn't
much help.  Whoops, no guessing.  Never mind.  I know if it were me surgery
would be the last resort.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Ervin [mailto:ervint at u.arizona.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 01:33
To: trombone-l at server5.samford.edu
Subject: [Trombone-l] ?Lip cysts?

Anybody got experience with cysts in the upper lip?

It's not for me, but a student of mine. The thing seems to be about the size
of a pencil eraser (when he feels it with his tongue from inside).

It is located outside of (above) the trombone mouthpiece rim, lucky I think.
There is no pain during playing, but pain later if the playing was
strenuous,

We don't know if it is just in the skin, or  maybe deeper in muscle. we
don't know if it scar from overplaying, an old pimple root, or something
else, but a doctor thinks it's a cyst. The doc would like to do surgery. I'd
hope to try everything else before surgery.

No guessing please, no amateurs, only replies from folks who've had
experiences, or other experts.


Tom Ervin, Professor of  Music
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