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    Default Swollen bump on spine from hard stage floor

    Ok, so I know I should probably go to a dr, but I thought SOMEONE here has to know what I'm talking about. I have this perfectly round raised swollen spot on my spine just below the middle of my back. I know it's from doing flips on the hard acrylic floor. And if anyone read Jenna Jameson's book she actually lists it among her stripper injuries. So i guess I just want to know if anyone has had or does have the same thing and if it just goes away or what. I suppose I should stop putting pressure on it and not do those moves. Should I get it drained? Is it fluid? It's starting to freak me out.

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    Yes!

    I have this and worried about it forever. I thought it was a slipped/extruding disk.

    I've been to several doctors and a chiro, and had xrays done...they all say it's normal, that it's actually just the way the/my back is, and that i just notice it because it's always bruised (from rolling around on the stage).

    So, hope that calms you a bit! You should still get it checked out though, just in case.

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    I dont think I have it, but Ive seen it on a lot of dancers. Its mentioned in "Read my Lips" a dancers story about stripping by the author too. I would get it checked anyway just to be safe (-:

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    If it is nontender and rubbery feeling, it could very well be a lipoma. It's a type of fatty tumor...noncancerous. Sometimes they happen for no good reason. A surgeon can remove it under local in the office.

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    I searched on here for the same reason. I'm going to the doctor tomorrow night. It worries others more than me, because they don't know I'm rolling around on hard floors, but it hasn't gone away for a month now.

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    Hope everything is ok. I get that problem also- but the pain goes away when I stop dancing for 2 days or so.

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    So, I was gonna tell my doctor why I probably have this bump, dr's privacy right, but I said it was martial arts instead. Anyway, she said it was a cyst and since it was right on my spine she couldn't remove it right away, I'll have to go to a surgeon. Then she proceeded to tell me how she had a cyst in her back removed and the stitches tore out when she got pregnant. So, um, I'm waiting til after I stop dancing to see if it goes down. Sure don't think a circular scar on my back is sexy. and thanks to everyone for the book recommendations, besides this forum, I feel kind of isolated, so the books from other strippers help, to hear stories similar to yours.

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