Hi. Just wondering if anyone else struggles with this.
Had a melanoma in situ removed right arm 7 years ago. Just had another suspicious lesion removed left shoulder. Hopefully BCC at worst, waiting on biopsy results.
Just finding myself terrified of the outdoors. Being out walking usually brings me a lot of mental benefits but I've been out 3 times, for only a few hours each, in moderate UV, with excision site covered in a t shirt, and am now finding myself freaking out I've exposed it too much as apparently clothes don't offer that much UV protection. But I couldn't have used suncream as stitches still in last week, and now I have steristrips (put on after stitches removed).
I feel like I'm so foolish to even have been outdoors, and for not thinking about the UV rating of clothes. I'm terrified I've sunburned my wound.
I don't know how I am ever going to feel relaxed except in winter. If UV can be moderate even on a cloudy day, and clothes aren't sufficient protection from UV, how do I ever go outside?
Do people suncream everywhere under clothes??
