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Thank you very much for your reply. Yours is the approach I will take.

Hello again Janner –

Sorry to bother you, but I am spinning again after the removal of a moderately atypical tiny (2mm) mole that I insisted upon – feeling like I can't trust my docs. Margins clear.

I had current doc and her colleague both look at my AMH scars. My regular doc said scars look great. (both checked with dermatascope). New doc checked thoroughly and said that the one with 4 mm margin clearance has a tiny very light (I can't see it with naked eye) freckle that is being pulled into the scar but it is its own entity. She said she is certain there is no melanoma here and she said she rarely if ever says certain.

My carcinophobia (yes, it has a name) is brutal at times, and the lack of 5 mm margins is playing with my head again.

8 years since removals. If I was going to have recurrence or metastisize, would that have already happened? Any thoughts on the freckle?

Hello again Janner –

Sorry to bother you, but I am spinning again after the removal of a moderately atypical tiny (2mm) mole that I insisted upon – feeling like I can't trust my docs. Margins clear.

I had current doc and her colleague both look at my AMH scars. My regular doc said scars look great. (both checked with dermatascope). New doc checked thoroughly and said that the one with 4 mm margin clearance has a tiny very light (I can't see it with naked eye) freckle that is being pulled into the scar but it is its own entity. She said she is certain there is no melanoma here and she said she rarely if ever says certain.

My carcinophobia (yes, it has a name) is brutal at times, and the lack of 5 mm margins is playing with my head again.

8 years since removals. If I was going to have recurrence or metastisize, would that have already happened? Any thoughts on the freckle?

Hello again Janner –

Sorry to bother you, but I am spinning again after the removal of a moderately atypical tiny (2mm) mole that I insisted upon – feeling like I can't trust my docs. Margins clear.

I had current doc and her colleague both look at my AMH scars. My regular doc said scars look great. (both checked with dermatascope). New doc checked thoroughly and said that the one with 4 mm margin clearance has a tiny very light (I can't see it with naked eye) freckle that is being pulled into the scar but it is its own entity. She said she is certain there is no melanoma here and she said she rarely if ever says certain.

My carcinophobia (yes, it has a name) is brutal at times, and the lack of 5 mm margins is playing with my head again.

8 years since removals. If I was going to have recurrence or metastisize, would that have already happened? Any thoughts on the freckle?

Thank you very much, Janner. Definitely no pigmentation in the scars. There is a tiny light brown freckle on the outskirts of one of the scars, but unrelated, I believe.

I did have another AMH in 2011. My new doc knew how nervous I was and took a 5 mm margin and original punch had cleared it anyway (same with the first 2). There are two very faint brown spots on the outer edge of this big scar, but the doc says it is benign, and not re-pigmentation (she is very well versed with a dermatascope). Do I need to push to have those brown spots biopsied?

I did have pigmentation in another scar, so doc removed the whole thing (an atypical mole) and the pigment was not a nevus, and unrelated on biopsy.

So, any advice on the brown spots stated above by my big scar?

Thank you for your expert advice.

Thank you very much, Janner. Definitely no pigmentation in the scars. There is a tiny light brown freckle on the outskirts of one of the scars, but unrelated, I believe.

I did have another AMH in 2011. My new doc knew how nervous I was and took a 5 mm margin and original punch had cleared it anyway (same with the first 2). There are two very faint brown spots on the outer edge of this big scar, but the doc says it is benign, and not re-pigmentation (she is very well versed with a dermatascope). Do I need to push to have those brown spots biopsied?

I did have pigmentation in another scar, so doc removed the whole thing (an atypical mole) and the pigment was not a nevus, and unrelated on biopsy.

So, any advice on the brown spots stated above by my big scar?

Thank you for your expert advice.

Thank you very much, Janner. Definitely no pigmentation in the scars. There is a tiny light brown freckle on the outskirts of one of the scars, but unrelated, I believe.

I did have another AMH in 2011. My new doc knew how nervous I was and took a 5 mm margin and original punch had cleared it anyway (same with the first 2). There are two very faint brown spots on the outer edge of this big scar, but the doc says it is benign, and not re-pigmentation (she is very well versed with a dermatascope). Do I need to push to have those brown spots biopsied?

I did have pigmentation in another scar, so doc removed the whole thing (an atypical mole) and the pigment was not a nevus, and unrelated on biopsy.

So, any advice on the brown spots stated above by my big scar?

Thank you for your expert advice.