penguin565
11-06-15, 13:36
Hi guys! :)
I'm new to this forum but definitely not new to health anxiety. So, I'm 16 and had a really stressful period lately, and it was mainly because my health anxiety, which has been there for like years, kinda got bigger and I was so scared of even looking at the word cancer.
So about 3 months ago I looked at my upper arm in the mirror and noticed a mole that wasn't actually big, (has a diameter of 3 mm, the doctor told me) but was asymmetrical and had irregular borders, two colors, so you know, the things that Dr. Google lists as the symptoms of melanoma. So I freaked out and went to the dermatologist the next day and she looked at it and told me it seemed perfectly fine, nothing to worry about, but they took a picture of it and told me to go back 3 months later. 3 months have passed and yesterday I went to the dermatologist again and they made an other picture and I was told they were going to compare the two recordings, although they did not seem concerned at all. I am talking to the doctor tomorrow and see when I'll get the results.
Now I'm kind of worried because it feels like that it has changed over the past 3 months. Not dramatically I would say, but maybe a tiny bit at the borders, and I keep telling myself that it's only my HA playing with me and I'm just imagining that it has changed, but I feel like I'm going to worry the hell out of myself until they tell me whether if there is really a change in the look of my mole or not. :wacko:
So my question to you guys, has anyone been like this? And do you think a mole may change in shape and still be perfectly fine? Sorry for this whole thing, but I can not really talk about this with anyone around me. :/
I'm new to this forum but definitely not new to health anxiety. So, I'm 16 and had a really stressful period lately, and it was mainly because my health anxiety, which has been there for like years, kinda got bigger and I was so scared of even looking at the word cancer.
So about 3 months ago I looked at my upper arm in the mirror and noticed a mole that wasn't actually big, (has a diameter of 3 mm, the doctor told me) but was asymmetrical and had irregular borders, two colors, so you know, the things that Dr. Google lists as the symptoms of melanoma. So I freaked out and went to the dermatologist the next day and she looked at it and told me it seemed perfectly fine, nothing to worry about, but they took a picture of it and told me to go back 3 months later. 3 months have passed and yesterday I went to the dermatologist again and they made an other picture and I was told they were going to compare the two recordings, although they did not seem concerned at all. I am talking to the doctor tomorrow and see when I'll get the results.
Now I'm kind of worried because it feels like that it has changed over the past 3 months. Not dramatically I would say, but maybe a tiny bit at the borders, and I keep telling myself that it's only my HA playing with me and I'm just imagining that it has changed, but I feel like I'm going to worry the hell out of myself until they tell me whether if there is really a change in the look of my mole or not. :wacko:
So my question to you guys, has anyone been like this? And do you think a mole may change in shape and still be perfectly fine? Sorry for this whole thing, but I can not really talk about this with anyone around me. :/