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358304 tn?1409709492

scared...

I'm usually in the anxiety forum due to health anxiety... so maybe someone here will give me peace of mind.

I had a little red blemish show up under my left eye about 7 days ago or so... and i didnt think anything of it... its like it showed up overnight, like a zit maybe...

well, about 3 or 4 days ago... i started to look at it more closely, and of course, a person who suffers from anxiety, i started researching skin cancer...

my wife laughed at me, b/c it's probably half the size of a pencil eraser... and it's pretty flat... but its also red... and also kinds looks like it get's kinda dry looking? like if dry skin were healing/shedding a little bit... there are no lesions or anything... and it is looking a little better than when it came on... actually quite much better... but i just keep looking at it in the mirror... and i keep putting hydrocortozone cream on it at night and when i wake up in the morning... maybe that has helped?

but after looking at pictures of basal cell cancer... and squamous cancer... it someone appears to look like that.. except it doesnt bulge out or anything... if i pull the skin tight... the little circle area looks kinda like it's "scared" skin? i dunno..

im thinking about either waiting a week or 2 before i see a doctor... my wife wants me to wait, she's assuring me it's probably nothing, and im complaining/freaking out over a little bity thing.

but part of me wants to go to the dr. tomorrow and just rule it out.. give me a peace of mind... i think ill do that.

what do you think? can skin cancer come on that quickly? and will it kill me to wait it out another week or 2?

thanks!

ps: sense i suffer from health anxiety etc.... i know researching skin cancer online isnt the best thing for a person like me. lol.
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you sound just like me i have two big moles iam going to dr monday and iam scared beyond belief i can not eat sleep iam a mess yhey have been with me for a looong time but ones seem different  i hate drs iam so sick i cant function
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358304 tn?1409709492
Thank you so much for your response. Having health anxiety as I do, I went to the Dr. today and he said it was not cancer. =)

He did have a term for it though.. he said it was basically some blood vessels under the skin that have expanded or something... and making look like a red circle.. when you stretch the skin some... you can see the tiny blood vessels... he said i also have on on my nose.. and he said that they usually don't just go away on their own.. but they can.

so im not worried anymore. =)

thanks again for writing. =)
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No skin cancer can't come on that quickly. I'd wait another 2 weeks and it should have cleared up. If it hasn't then see a doctor.

Take care and try not to freak out.
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