WoriedYoungTeen
04-03-2012, 09:34 AM
Okay, I was going to post this on ask etc but they have a limited amount of letters you can do, so after browsing the net I finally found this forum.
My name is Keegan, I am a 20 year old male and I just saw something that makes me worry a little bit.
I have moles on my body, like everyone else pretty much.. Every one of them is brownish, have hair growing in them.. They are all similar.. Except for one I just really paid attention to tonight.
I was looking at my right left near my ankle, and I saw a black mole.. it might be like faded on the outside edge of it, but it's SOOO tiny I can't tell, but its obviously black.
at first I didn't think nothing, Thought maybe just got blood under my skin or something, so I pulled out my pocket knife and started picking at it.. When I started doing that, I then remembered I've had this for more than a good 4 months, and last time I picked at it, it bleed.. but now that I look at it, It's exactly as it was before I picked at it..
I'd say its probably less than even half a cm in diameter.. Maybe smaller, I could fit probably 6-8 exact ones on the top round area of my index finger..
When I rub my finger over it, It is not smooth like every other mole I have, but it simply feels like it is a bump.. It doesn't look as bad as the cancerous images on google, but it is completely out of whack with my body.. and I know for a fact I did not always have this..
If I folded it over, It would NOT be symmetrical, it is oddly shaped, but not too oddly..
I was going to take a picture of it, but I don't have a cell or camera.. I think I described it as close as possible.. TINY black mole, Kind of symmetrical, but one said is shaped different so it wouldn't like it, pretty much a bump not flat and smooth like every other mole I have, and I have not had it all my life.
My mother is a respiratory therapist, nothing to do with skin cancer, but I figure she might be able to tell me.. but sometimes she thinks she knows everything and you can tell she doesn't know what she's talking about.. so I don't want to ask her, she say no.. Then a year or two later its bigger and is cancer.. so any second opinion would be nice, I won't hold anyone liable if they are wrong lol, I just want some advice.. I know without a picture you might not be able to fully understand what I'm describing but anyone that can tell me stuff would be great.
Not that it probably matters, I am white/brown hair etc, I do burn fairly easily when I go in the sun, but in the last two years I have not gone in the sun much.. I think its relatively new black mole (at least 4mo's old, to the latest of 2 years old), but if it's around 2 years old, is it possible to not get bigger/change at all? I can't be sure when I first noticed it, Latest 2 years earliest 4 mo's.. Please someone help
My name is Keegan, I am a 20 year old male and I just saw something that makes me worry a little bit.
I have moles on my body, like everyone else pretty much.. Every one of them is brownish, have hair growing in them.. They are all similar.. Except for one I just really paid attention to tonight.
I was looking at my right left near my ankle, and I saw a black mole.. it might be like faded on the outside edge of it, but it's SOOO tiny I can't tell, but its obviously black.
at first I didn't think nothing, Thought maybe just got blood under my skin or something, so I pulled out my pocket knife and started picking at it.. When I started doing that, I then remembered I've had this for more than a good 4 months, and last time I picked at it, it bleed.. but now that I look at it, It's exactly as it was before I picked at it..
I'd say its probably less than even half a cm in diameter.. Maybe smaller, I could fit probably 6-8 exact ones on the top round area of my index finger..
When I rub my finger over it, It is not smooth like every other mole I have, but it simply feels like it is a bump.. It doesn't look as bad as the cancerous images on google, but it is completely out of whack with my body.. and I know for a fact I did not always have this..
If I folded it over, It would NOT be symmetrical, it is oddly shaped, but not too oddly..
I was going to take a picture of it, but I don't have a cell or camera.. I think I described it as close as possible.. TINY black mole, Kind of symmetrical, but one said is shaped different so it wouldn't like it, pretty much a bump not flat and smooth like every other mole I have, and I have not had it all my life.
My mother is a respiratory therapist, nothing to do with skin cancer, but I figure she might be able to tell me.. but sometimes she thinks she knows everything and you can tell she doesn't know what she's talking about.. so I don't want to ask her, she say no.. Then a year or two later its bigger and is cancer.. so any second opinion would be nice, I won't hold anyone liable if they are wrong lol, I just want some advice.. I know without a picture you might not be able to fully understand what I'm describing but anyone that can tell me stuff would be great.
Not that it probably matters, I am white/brown hair etc, I do burn fairly easily when I go in the sun, but in the last two years I have not gone in the sun much.. I think its relatively new black mole (at least 4mo's old, to the latest of 2 years old), but if it's around 2 years old, is it possible to not get bigger/change at all? I can't be sure when I first noticed it, Latest 2 years earliest 4 mo's.. Please someone help