recuurent tag II

[worriedok]

Dr. Rockoff,

    I posted a few days ago under the thread title "recurrent tag".  I should have been upfront and told you that I was also in the medical field.

   I had had a recurrence of what I had been previously told was a tag by a dermatologist, and had not paid much attention to it until just recently (when I became paranoid re: genital warts).   My main question and the point that I needed reassurance about had been whether a skin tag can recur and you had responded that yes one can.  You also had suggested that I see a physician regarding the the lesion, although you had also said that you "bet it's a tag."  

   I don't mean to be disrespectful in any way, but I would like to know what your rationale is for suggesting that I have the new tag seen by a physician?  This new lesion looks similar to me.  Would the point of a doctor's visit only be reassurance or did my story sound unusual to you?

Thanks again.

[Alan Rockoff, MD]

Not suspicious really, only that I can't be sure when not seeing a lesion, and it's at least possible that the doctor who saw you the first time was not correct.  In that case, the fact that it looks the same as the first one doesn't tell us for sure what it is.  So that's why I suggested you get another opinion.  That's the best way I know to put what you describe as paranoia to rest.

Take care.

Dr. Rockoff