Esthetically displeasing bump on side of my face (fibroma?)

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I'm really anxious about this bump on the side of my face, that formed towards the end of December. It's esthetically displeasing, and I feel as if my looks may be starting to fall apart, because of it... that I will lose almost the only thing I am happy with. The thought of it never going away is just horrible to me. It's about four millimetres wide and points outwards with a bit over half a millimetre. I know it may not sound like much, but to me it is really visible. I know that most others would not notice it, but I definitely do. I believe it well may be a fibroma; I have one on my back that never is going away, that started as if a pimple would form, but instead, just a bump remained. I have poked on the one on my back, countless times, until it started itching all the time, for a while, which made me go to a doctor that I had trust in would be knowledgeable. While I suppose he very well could be wrong, after I explained how it formed, he looked at it and believed it to be fibroma, which had formed after an inflammation in fat cells, under the skin. He also said that it never will go away, and that surgery would leave a mark that would be much uglier; that the actual skin, there, then would have to be removed. I told him that I had poked holes in it many times, in case I could get out any fat from it, but that nothing but blood ever came out, and he meant that a fibroma isn't like a bump because of any fat. (For the itching, by the way, I got a strong cortisone ointment, but while he said the itching never would stop, it actually did, a few weeks afterwards, so he was wrong about that, at least.)

Anyway, the symptoms are the same, for the one on my face. I have carefully punctured this one, too, a week ago or so, and a tiny bit of fat *did* come out, this time, but the majority of the bump has remained, except it's now also darkened, due to the poking. I realize that messing like that, any more, with it, only will make it worse, so what should I do? Is there any substance that may alter its formation, and make it recede, as it's so newly formed? After all, a fibroma is a benign tumour, is it not? And what should I do about the darkening, due to my poking on it? I actually was careful, when I did it, and mild surface scarring tends to go away, for me, but anything I can do to ensure that the darkening goes away? More importantly, though, whatever could it be that I could do to make the bump go away, at least almost entirely? I can't possibly have it in my face for the rest of my life. :/ When I woke up, this evening, I actually was doing better, but then I looked in the mirror; the scab from my mild poking of it now had come off, but the bump was still there... this seriously depresses me so any help would be very appreciated. :/

Can't you get it surgically removed?

I don't know... maybe not, if that doctor was right. I mainly was hoping that there might be some substance that I could apply to it, that would cause at least most of it to go back. :/ If I do it soon, if there indeed are any useful substances, maybe it'd work in the optimal way, as it's been there for such a short time.

Well, I don't know, these are all personal questions you gotta go find out the answers yourself for, but how is your eating and exercise habits and all that stuff? Is it good? Really, look into seeing if you're nutritionally deficient in anything. IE, a lot of acne for example, can be cleared up with more vitamin B5, so you're just gonna have to do a lot of research.

Other than that, as far as creams, the only thing that may possibly help is putting some hydrogen peroxide on the tumored area. Some people take hydrogen peroxide internally for real cancer, with sorta mixed results. It's a practice that borderlines on quackery, but, I guess there might be something to the science. Either way, a bottle of hydrogen peroxide is like a dollar, and you could wet a cloth and put it on the tumor and see what happens, best case scenario, it goes away, worst case scenario, well...you've wasted a little time and peroxide. Just don't take peroxide internally, as first off, even if the science behind that sorta thing is true, 3% peroxide like at a grocery store has heavy metal stabilizers in it, and I frankly am not totally convinced of the safety of it. But, externally, I don't see it doing any harm.

I hardly ever have acne, and never have had much of it. However, I'm sure I could have some vitamin deficiency, currently, as I have been eating very little, for quite some time, and don't even take any vitamin and mineral supplements. I do my very best to avoid trans fats, though, and when I do eat, I try to eat healthy stuff (except for all the sugar in the candy, but I avoid the more unhealthy types of candy, with HFCS, or similar stuff).

I actually happen to already have a very pure type of hydrogen peroxide, which is used for lens cleaning. I have never heard of it working against tumour formation, though, but I suppose I could try. :| What about vitamin E ointments, though? Or mixing the contents of those clear vitamin E capsules in some face ointment? Vitamin E is fat-soluble, after all. Or is vitamin E only effective against scars? There are many types of vitamin E, however, so any particular types of it that would work best against scars, or bumps? If it even does do anything against bumps, that is - just a thought of mine - I really don't know.

Thanks again.

I just meant that it was mixed with distilled water, and with nothing else but hydrogen peroxide... however, it was a long time ago that I opened the bottle, so it may not be that clean, anymore... smells like plastic, now. :| So not very pure, anymore, now. I suppose it has dissolved some of the bottle, into the water - but I'll be trying it, anyway. It's definitely still caustic. It's just 3% of it, in the water, though, and doesn't burn when I apply it... so should be fine, I suppose. :|

Any other suggestions, as well, would be greatly appreciated. -_- Ones for how to get those darkened areas scars to be more likely to go away, too... thanks. :|