Hello Everyone,
First off, I just want to say that my deepest thoughts, prayers and condolences, are with everyone fighthing this horrible disease. I feel bad for posting my maybe good news on this forum because everyone else is going through so mucj, but I am not sure where else to go for some advice in this subject. About 7 months ago, I was diagnosed with Stage 1a melanoma at a depth of 0.23mm with regression present (Did not specify how much) and no mitotic activity (0 mitosis per square). It did not contain any other worrisome factors such as ulceration, lymphocytic inflatration, etc. so in that sense it was a low risk lesion. Even though it is a low risk lesion, I was having trouble psychologically dealing with this and moving past it. I would constatntly think about this returning and coming back, and it has been on my mind daily sense my diagnosis. When I did receive my diagnosis I asked if we could send the slides to another pathologist for a second opinion to hear their thoughts and just confirm the original one. The pathologist that the slide got sent to has specialized in second opinions on melanoma for around 20 years now, and he has over 30 years of experience researching and dealing with melanoma, and is considered one of the experts in his field. Anyhow, my lab group ended up sending the slides to him and he took a second look and just recently about one week ago changed my original Stage 1a Melanoma to a severly aytpical melanocytic hyperplasia. I have already had the WLE done on my original site and all margins were clear with no problems at all. I do realize that my original legion was not extremely high risk, but just the fact that their was that risk messed with me psychologically pretty bad, and it was affecting my day to day life. When I got the second opinion back from the other doctor, I really just could not believe it and still cannot. I mean to have this actually not have been cancer would mean so much to me mentally and I am not sure what I should do at this point. Should I take the second opinion and be overjoyed with the good news? Do you think I should get a third opinion, what is everyones thoughts. Thank you everyone for taking the time to read this post, and again, my thoughts and prayers with everyone going through such hard times at the moment.
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