Hi everyone
I hope it’s ok if I post here.
Im a 30 year old male in the U.K. I also have health anxiety. I work as a Healthcare Professional at a large teaching hospital
I have used sunbeds quite a bit over the year; for the last 10 years or so. I had worried about melanoma in the past, but stupidly continued because I thought it wouldn’t happen to me
At the start of October, I noticed a new mole beneath my ankle. It was dark and looked different to my other moles. I decided to see the GP, who looked at it with a Dermoscope. He said it was 1mm X 1.5mm and was a reticular mole with a darker centre. He said we should watch and wait, but that it was too small for Dermatology to do anything about
I wasn’t happy with this so I went to see a Dermatologist. Initially when looking at it, he said it is almost certainly benign. He took a photo of it through the dermoscope to show me. He then looked at all my other moles, and then he started talking about needing to remove it.
it was removed 4 days later (roughly 2 weeks after I first noticed it). He still thinks it’s more likely to come back as benign or dysplastic but he said we couldn’t exclude melanoma because
1. It’s darker than my other moles
2. my history of sunbed use
waiting for the results (nearly 3 weeks now since removal!!!) is so difficult.
I don’t even know why I’m posting here. I just need to let it off my chest. I’m hoping I caught it early. It was removed 2 weeeks after first noticing it, and photos confirm it wasn’t there 2 months ago
DONT USE SUNBEDS!!!!
