Within the last couple days I noticed a spot hurting on my foot after showing. I took a look and one of the moles i’ve had for years had changed — not good. Now its the weekend so of course no dermatologist is open, so that doesn’t help much. Needless to say, this has sent my anxiety through the rough to the point where I took my first personal sick day at work. The spot is still relatively small, around 3mm but almost vaguely looks like it has skin color “scar” tissue creeping away from it. The spot also still feels pretty thin when I run my finger over it (hard to measure but i’d feel confident saying its raised less than 1mm). My last full skin exam was a bit over a year ago and the dermatologist made no mention or notes of that mole (but I know he did look at it at the time). Here is a picture of the spot
https://i.imgur.com/1KCl9cm.jpg As a side note, I can’t find any unusual bumps that would indicate a swollen lymph node (though my knowledge on where lymph nodes would be in the foot is minimal).
I think I worry the most as i’ve had some other symptoms over the last two years, particularly abdominal pain. But I had an abdominal CT scan, ultra sound, and colonoscopy all which showed nothing unusual. So its also probably that the two are unrelated entirely. my last blood work about a year ago came back pretty good (only low vit D, but as somebody who works late/overnight this isn’t too unexpected…). At this point its hard to distinguish anxiety from actually related.
I know the people on this board are mostly other patients and not qualified to “diagnose” or anything of the likes, but many of you have had experiences and I’d prefer honest opinions and advice. I live in the norcal bay area, so if things turn for the worse, does anybody have familiarity with facilities to recommend around here? I’m still pretty young being only 27, but I lost my mom to colon cancer less than two years ago and quite frankly pretty spooked. I’m hoping to squeeze in an appointment on Monday if I can though. I’ll certainly post an update once I have those results….
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