emm5412
02-10-18, 13:41
Hi everyone, after a pretty good year of no health anxiety, I'm back :/
I'm really worried about this thing I thought was a mole on my hand. It appeared as a small raised mole back in mid June, but now it's quite large and nasty looking. I made the mistake of googling skin cancer, and now I can't stop thinking that I have nodular melanoma and that i'm going to die because it spreads to the organs in just 3 months, and I've had this for about 3 months :(
I have a dermatologist appointment in November, but that's a long way away. Can someone just look at the pictures and tell me if you think it looks like a wart instead of a mole? I've never had a wart before, so I don't really know what they look like when they first appear.
https://imgur.com/a/dPVi4sJ
The pictures are in order, the first one was when I had stopped picking at it for a week or so and it looked to be healing, the second picture was a week later after i took the band aid off it started drying out and looking like a wart, and then the third picture is after I picked at it really hard and tried to rip it out (failed haha)
I'm really worried about this thing I thought was a mole on my hand. It appeared as a small raised mole back in mid June, but now it's quite large and nasty looking. I made the mistake of googling skin cancer, and now I can't stop thinking that I have nodular melanoma and that i'm going to die because it spreads to the organs in just 3 months, and I've had this for about 3 months :(
I have a dermatologist appointment in November, but that's a long way away. Can someone just look at the pictures and tell me if you think it looks like a wart instead of a mole? I've never had a wart before, so I don't really know what they look like when they first appear.
https://imgur.com/a/dPVi4sJ
The pictures are in order, the first one was when I had stopped picking at it for a week or so and it looked to be healing, the second picture was a week later after i took the band aid off it started drying out and looking like a wart, and then the third picture is after I picked at it really hard and tried to rip it out (failed haha)