Hi guys
This is my first post but Im not completely new to the forum. I've read lots of articles, etc on here.
I'm looking for a bit of advice/reassurance about a mole my wife showed me this morning.
She's had an unchanged mole on her back as long as I've known her, which is 16 years. It's 5mm in diameter, perfectly symmetrical, very neat borders and is a single colour light brown colour in the middle of her back. It's never inched or hurt or bled, etc. She's white but with dark skin, very dark hair and dark brown eyes. Her mother is Portuguese. She's (my wife) got about 5 of these moles that look very similar on her body. She's got about 20 to 30 small moles on her body. None atypical. As far as were awarw, no family history of melanoma. We're both 30 years old.
This morning there was a scab she felt on the mole. It's slightly darker than the rest and is in the middle. It looks and feels like a scab and if it was on her skin, I wouldn't think twice about it. It's just where it is. She said she noticed it two days ago. I don't recall seeing the scab at all. I saw it about a week ago and it was fine. It's not bleeding or anything else.
My wife says she thinks it may be a new bra she has where the strap covers the mole where her old ones don't.Â
She's going to make an appointment with her GP at my request. She wants to leave it a week or so and see if it is a scab and if it goes away.
What would anyone with any experience in this area recommend? Give it a week and see or go in straight away?Â
I struggle with this type of thing stressing and worrying but she's not really concerned to be honest.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks
JS
