Help!! Mysterious Dent on Thigh

[EnlgishBirder]

OMG I'm going mad. I'm so freaked. I know no one is going to reply to this but I gave a dent in my thigh above my left knee that i know was not there. I know this because I remember thinking a while ago that at least I did not have any dents. Why is it there? My left thigh was twitching on that exact area yesterday. Its not cellulite. I can see it when I flex the muscle . It's about 16 cm above the knee. Please can anyone tell me I'm not alone

 

[Gracer]

It is not a cellulite but a loss of subcutaneous tissue, it happens sometimes and is absolutely harmles. I have several in my legs.Look, your brain plays bad games with you. Even loss of subcutaneous tissue can not develop in the area where you had a twitch yesterday. Atrophy needs a few weeks to become evident AFTER muscle innervation is spoiled or muscle operation is prevented, and you would also have EMG signs here should it be an atrophy due to MND. YOU DID NOT HAVE EMG SIGNS IN YOUR THIGH! You had not a single sign in neither muscle tested!hey are you doing something about your mood disorder (I think you wrote you are diagnosed with one of the types)? Sad to see this is really eating you.But believe me you are following same path as other people here - BFS diagnosis with or without related OCD/AD disorder, then feeling you need EMG for relief, then getting clean EMG, then doubting clean EMG, then thinking oh, at least I do not have (name a symptom) and starting to have it shortly or percieve you have it...

 

[SwiftStar09]

Don't be sorry. Us BFSers seem to be hyper aware of our bodies and notice any changes that may throw us for a loop. I have dent on my outer left thigh that is very similar to what you're describing. I even pointed it out to my GP last year and like Gracely said it was harmless. I blame it to the joys of aging and losing that bikini body that seems like so long ago

 

[MarioMasher]

Check out this post about dents from a very wise oldtimer named Kit. It will help:

 

[EnlgishBirder]

Thanks. I feel so stupid. I only had an EMG on Thursday. I think the whole thing freaked me out and I almost feel worse. I'm seeing the neuro on Tuesday so will talk to him.The dent is only visible when I stand up and flex my left thigh. It's right in the middle of the thigh above the knee. If I'm sitting with my legs out front and flex my legs you can't see it at all. You can see city the clearest if I look down while flexing but not when relaxed. You can also see it if I move the mirror so the light comes behind the mirror and I'm facing the windows. Normally my mirror is on the opposite wall.I don't have the same on the other side. I'm freaking because it's my left leg which is the one that has caused me problems. I'm hoping it's been there a long time but surely I would notice? It could be subcutaneous fat loss. My thighs are quite dimpled anyway. Would atrophy start like this?

 

[EmmyCee]

It's 100% benign and I had it too years ago, which actually led me to the anxiety that caused my first bfs flare way back in 2008. Check this out:

 

[EnlgishBirder]

Thanks Emmie but it's not that. I wish it was. It's a penny sized round dent that appears when I flex my left thigh. It's not there when my thigh is relaxed. It's really obvious when I flex. Not there on the other leg.I'm going mad.

 

[EmmyCee]

Dents in large muscles are generally not a sign of muscle atrophy, but rather indicate fat atrophy, muscle definition, or injury (as in you bumped your leg there once). I've been told by an orthopedic doc that with atrophy in a large muscle the entire muscle will shrink, not just a small portion. You're fine, and you should still be giddy with relief over your EMG and not obsessing over every little thing. I hope your visit with the neuro on Tuesday sets your mind at ease.

 

[EnlgishBirder]

THANK YOU! I have banged my thigh there but in the past. Not recently but the thighs are the same size flexed and relaxed.

 

[EnlgishBirder]

One more question: as it's more obvious when I flex but not obvious in relaxed leg is this more or less like to be muscularIin I rigid? I do have cellulite on my legs but wonder why it's more obvious on left leg. I Think it's my rectus femoris muscle but not 100% sure. How would atrophy appear?

 

[Gracer]

Oh dear, you do not have atrophy, you were tested few days ago by two very sensitive methods which should reveal changes in your muscle innervation well before atrophy.Well, our leg and hand muscles are made of long bundles directed alongside the bones. So when the muscles loss innervation, they loss it 'bundlewise', so longitudal pieces of muscular tissue become useless, lose weight etc. so any dents appearing should obviously be more or less longwise. If you have any very old relatives, take a chance to look on their calves or shoulders - you would see wabby wasted muscles (becasue with the age it is natural to have muscular wasting due to much slower growth process), hanging like flags... that is how atrophy looks like (more or less). So having a circualr shape dent means it is a mark from previous impact injury or pressure injury, and it is related to the loss of subcutaneuous tissue. Cellulitis makes "dents" more or less parallel to the ground , while should you have muscle devastation, you A) woiuld notice the muscle does not do its job, B) would have rather longitudal marks (I am not medically sure but all logic says about that)Photos of well developed atrophy demonstrate no dents but rather it looks like muscles are wrapping the bones more tight however being thinner.

 

[EmmyCee]

Goodness gracious. Make sure you write all of your questions and concerns down for the neurologist appointment on Tuesday, as you seem to be the sort of person (as are many of us) that needs comprehensive reassurance, so make sure you get everything off your chest during that appointment. And as I said earlier, atrophy looks like a shrinking muscle. Not a portion of the muscle, but the entire muscle in question would be smaller. I had atrophy on my calf when I broke it and it was in a cast for several months. It was quite noticeably smaller than the other leg. My daughter had ACL surgery last year, and she also had immediate atrophy. It meant a smaller leg, not dents or bumps. No one is perfectly symmetrical. I have some dents and bumps and ridges too on my legs, albeit small ones that only I notice when I flex, but they are there nonetheless. When I have showed them to my doctors, no one batted an eye because they are meaningless and do not indicate muscle atrophy. You are fine, you had a CLEAN EMG and a CLEAN CLINICAL!