Originally Posted by
B. Carfree
It sounds like "cyclist's third testicle". You may have biker's nodule. Here's a starter link:
http://link.springer.com/article/10..../fulltext.html
Get thee to a good clinic. Treatment often involves rest and steroid injections. If that fails, it's knife time.
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That's interesting. It almost sounds like a bedsore in reverse: Where instead of the muscle, fat and skin dying and forming a hole, it is forming an essentially dead buildup of fat...
But, it does make sense in that a bed sore is the result of pressure between a hard surface and a bone squeezing the blood out of an area and the tissue in between simply starts to die. A bed sore can form in under 2 hours...
I have always liked to stop and get off of the bike about every half-hour -- and I always felt a bit like a whimp.
... Now I won't feel so bad. I'll tell myself it's "medically necessary" to take a break!