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.