Suspicious moles and eye ‘freckle’

I cannot help at all but would love to read any responses as my 17 ye old daughter went to the optician 2 weeks ago and they found a new freckle at the back of her eye too!

she’s a red head with pure white skin and we’ve always been so careful with her - Spf50-70 (depending on where in the world we are!) and shades too!

the optician told her to have an annual eye test going forward so they can monitor it / they did warn that it could impact her vision in the future

Hi Klr88 and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.

I don't have any experience with having a freckle in my eye, although I do have experience of having melanoma, but I don't think it would harm to mention it when you have your dermatology appointment on Friday.

You might also want to join and post in the eye cancer forum, which covers ocular melanoma, to see if anyone there has any experience with this. If this is something that you'd like to do, clicking on the link I've created will take you straight there.

Let us know how it goes on Friday.

x

Hi Klr88 

How did your appointment go yesterday?

Hi,

thanks for checking in. The 2 moles they said are ok. One of them is a mole on top of a mole apparently so that’s why it’s different colours…

there is something on my chest I mentioned and they had a look at too, they didn’t really indicate what they thought it might be but I need to go back in 3 months for monitoring. I’m hoping when I can see the summary letter (the one they send to the GP) I’ll get a better idea of what they think that is - as they didn’t call it anything but said the colour needed monitoring. 
She didn’t seem at all interested about my eye freckle - just said see Opthalmology for that. 

That's good to read that they're not worried about the two moles you originally went to see them about but that they're going to keep an eye on the other one.

I hope the eye freckle turns out to be nothing to worry about.

Anne

Hi, I took recently found an eye freckles during a routine two yearly eye test.  Was referred immediately to my local NHS eye clinic where I had further tests.  They said eye freckles are normal and it's shape was flat (that's good apparently!) 

I was told to have six months eye check ups, have yet to have my opa come through though.

I panicked initially but am calmer now.  It's worth chasing up yourself I believe. 

Well done on acting quickly with your moles. Fingers crossed for positive outcome. X