Hi to all the wonderful people here
I have had a tender spot on my groin artery where they have been in many times (cant recall how many exact. Maybe 4 time s?)
So i can feel a slight small Lump / lumps where they have gone in to the artery for surgery and angiograms etc. Its also if i push on it or run finger iver with slight pressure, it feels very weird uncomfortable feeling. Slightly numb but slight minor pain. Nothing serious. More just a very weird strange sensation with slight numb pain. A sensation i cannot describe fully as i havent experienced it anywhere else before
Have any others had this?
This has been there since day one of first entry to the artery so its nothong serious
Thanks
Hey @AlwaysCurious,
This is not uncommon, especially with multiple incisions in the same spot/area. Our bodies naturally react to an intrusion by reinforcing the area, often called scar tissue. But even the tissue around the actual scar itself changes too and often feels like a lump.
In my youth (many, many years ago) I got in with the wrong crowd and became a regular IV drug user. As I say, this was in my youth and I haven’t used for a long time, but the vein I used has a lump under it. The needle I used was very fine, but repeated puncturing has caused a build up of tissue or a hardening of a lump. I’d suggest the apparatus used for your procedures would be much larger and cause trauma to a larger area, making the lump bigger.
As for the ‘very weird strange sensation with slight numb pain’ that’s my entire scalp 
Over the years I’ve needed multiple neurosurgeries and my scalp has been sliced through each time. I have areas of normal sensation, areas of no sensation and areas of weird sensation all over my scalp. My last neurosurgery was back in '13 and still today I have areas where normal sensation has not returned. It’s no longer painful, just weird. Like you, it 's “a sensation i cannot describe fully”. I’ve tried to explain it to the medicos and the look at me with this strange expression.
Merl from the Modsupport Team
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^ this guy. Lol
My arteries/vessels have definitely felt different after my embolization. They shot through so many that I lost count - I had one that bothered me for about a year. It was an artery they shot through in my groin - it looked like a 1/2” horn coming out of my crotch. I thought it would stay forever - then it just started disappearing. It’s fully gone now - thankfully.
My other arteries do feel a bit different, kinda more achy & noticeable.
The worst tho is what my neurosurgeons referred to as the “noodle” - it was an artery in my left arm that felt like a hard out of the box noodle. I asked if it was “normal” - they said yes. After two years or so, it went away completely.
Wish you the best!
This is kinda of the “new normal” I have been living with for over four years 
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