Hello @lkingsbu and welcome to Connect. Is this a new development? Is there a different color or texture on the surface of the skin for the pea sized lump? Is this something that is growing larger? Do you have normal sensation in the leg, and would you sense pain if something was putting too much pressure in a spot?

Let me tell you why I asked these questions. I do sometimes wear an ankle brace because I still have weakness since breaking my ankle a year ago, and sometimes that leaves a dent, so I don't worry about that unless the dent stayed there after the brace was removed. If you have a raised lump, that IS something to be concerned about. My husband had a small dome shaped bump on his hand and thought it was a pimple coming up, it grew a bit larger and he thought it was a wart. It was just a spherical flesh colored bump. Because he kept hitting it when using his hands, he started covering it with a bandage. Out of sight... out of mind... right? When I saw it again (after it had been there a year), it had grown larger and it looked like an eraser on the end of a pencil, and it was the same color. I made a dermatology appointment and they did a biopsy. Then we got a phone call that this bump was melanoma, the most dangerous of the skin cancers, and he was scheduled for surgery immediately and now has a skin graft about the size of a half dollar. We were lucky, it had not spread. If it had, I would be telling a different story right now. He does have to go for skin exams every 3 months, and they keep removing abnormal moles that could become skin cancer.

It takes a trained medical professional to give you a diagnosis. Good for you for your awareness. If the lump is there all the time, it would be best to get a dermatologist to look at it. It could be a lot of things or maybe something harmless, but you need to advocate for yourself and make an appointment for an evaluation.

Do you have a dermatologist that you can see?