That was more entertaining than most TV shows these days. 
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Those belts have a reputation, so I didn’t want to be a nuisance by asking for help. But at least everyone now knows what I sound like constipated. #bonding 
I have no idea what you were doping ion that video but it was hard to look away. LOL
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Hahaha glad I could entertain you with some nonsense. 
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YES!! I had one on my wrist in 8th grade and finally, when I was a junior in high school, I just whacked it super hard against a table because I was tired of it and my mom, a nurse, told me to try it. I’ll be damned if it didn’t work. lol
So, given my “solution”, I’m not sure I’m the one you should or want to be talking to about this… lol
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They were called a Bible cyst because they would use a Bible to slam on the cyst to pop it and make it go away.
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It works! I hurt like a b!t$h but it got the job done. lol
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You’re the third person to tell me that they did this and had success!
I’m too big of a baby to handle it that way, but it seems to be going away — or just popping out less than it did the past couple weeks.
I really eased off of workouts this week (just two) so maybe that helped?
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It took me 4 years to work up the courage to actually do it… lol
I don’t know, but I’ll pray that yours miraculously goes away without resorting to the whack-job. lol
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Oh ouch!!! Have you had one? And did you have to do that?!
Mine hasn’t protruded too badly compared to what’s in the google image searches, so hopefully there won’t be any need to whack it. Haha hopefully!!
I was shaking creatine into a premade bottle of MAG-10 when it popped out last week. 
Awww that means the world to me. You’re an amazing friend. 
And also, you’re one tough cookie to have delt with one of these wrist goblins for so long as a kiddo! Dang girl!!
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I did, and it resolved on its own.
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Best case scenario. Glad to hear it isn’t a problem for you anymore! Mine seems to be headed that direction this week, but I did have to skip some workouts to get it there.
Ganglion cysts are filled with a viscous clear fluid, a bit like Vaseline. Hitting it with a holy book often works^, rupturing the skin containing the jelly, but it does not get rid of the skin and sometimes they come back. Deeply cleaning the skin and poking it with a big sterile needle allows you to squeeze the jelly out but has a similar chance of recurrence and small chance of infection. Freezing the skin and removing the cyst works too.
^Perhaps you could reduce the problems with the right incantations before using the holy book?
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Pretty gross right? I’m going to wait it out. It comes and goes based on certain activities. Have you ever experienced one of these things?
No, not so far.
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Just to add an anecdote - my wife had one about 7 years ago, hit it with a bible (other hard, heavy books are available) it went away and hasn’t returned.
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Wow! That’s really brave, and it was likely a last resort. She’s the fourth person (in just the last week) I’ve heard of who’s done it that way.
I really hope it doesn’t come to that.
Where did the term “bible thumper” come from, anyway?
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