CG5246
30-12-17, 13:56
So I thought I was doing so well with my health anxiety...I've been able to talk myself down from almost every cancer I've thought I had...but not this time apparently.
I was scrolling through Facebook and I happened to see a post about a former classmate of mine who is battling stage 4 melanoma. She is 29, just like me.
So this made me start worrying about a couple moles I have. I inspected myself in the mirror, one is on my neck and is skin-colored (most of the rest of my moles are tan or brown) and is smooth and raised, less than 1/4 inch, but the border seems a little darker than the center. It's been there for A WHILE...so like months or a few years. I haven't noticed any change but I'm now worried about it since I don't know if it's a mole or if it's cancerous because it's different than my other moles and since I haven't been watching it I don't know if it's changed at all...? It looks almost like a zit on my neck but it hasn't gone away months/years! I attached a picture of it to this post.
Then I inspected myself further and found a skin colored less than 1/4 inch oval thing (not sure if it's a mole?) on my upper right back. I've never seen it before, but I don't know if it's a mole since it just looks slightly whiter than the rest of my skin. I'm not sure if it's a scar or what since I have had acne in that area in the past, but it looks a little different than my other acne scars back there.
Then I started thinking about how when I was 19 I went to a tanning salon for a month or two, and then stopped. That increases my risk for skin cancer. The rest of the years I haven't been good about applying sunscreen but I haven't had a bunch of really bad sunburns that I can remember either.
Basically I am worried that it's melanoma since I was an idiot and tanned for those couple months and haven't been diligent about sunscreen, as well as these moles or whatever they are, seem weird. Thoughts??
I was scrolling through Facebook and I happened to see a post about a former classmate of mine who is battling stage 4 melanoma. She is 29, just like me.
So this made me start worrying about a couple moles I have. I inspected myself in the mirror, one is on my neck and is skin-colored (most of the rest of my moles are tan or brown) and is smooth and raised, less than 1/4 inch, but the border seems a little darker than the center. It's been there for A WHILE...so like months or a few years. I haven't noticed any change but I'm now worried about it since I don't know if it's a mole or if it's cancerous because it's different than my other moles and since I haven't been watching it I don't know if it's changed at all...? It looks almost like a zit on my neck but it hasn't gone away months/years! I attached a picture of it to this post.
Then I inspected myself further and found a skin colored less than 1/4 inch oval thing (not sure if it's a mole?) on my upper right back. I've never seen it before, but I don't know if it's a mole since it just looks slightly whiter than the rest of my skin. I'm not sure if it's a scar or what since I have had acne in that area in the past, but it looks a little different than my other acne scars back there.
Then I started thinking about how when I was 19 I went to a tanning salon for a month or two, and then stopped. That increases my risk for skin cancer. The rest of the years I haven't been good about applying sunscreen but I haven't had a bunch of really bad sunburns that I can remember either.
Basically I am worried that it's melanoma since I was an idiot and tanned for those couple months and haven't been diligent about sunscreen, as well as these moles or whatever they are, seem weird. Thoughts??