Growth Under Eye and Dual Diagnosis

[OogaBooga]

Hi Doc, First off, Thank you for this forum. It has been extremely useful and the advice I have gotten from other questions has been great here. I have 2 questions. The first is that I have a flesh colored bum under my right eye (not painful or itching), I am concerned about ocular herpes. I went to the eye doc yesterday and he said everything looked fine. My question is, should I go back and show him this bump, or would he have noticed it yesterday if it was something of concern.

My other question is that I was treated for genital warts 6 months ago and then had some new warts in my pelvic area and was treated again 2 months later. I went back yesterday with the same bumps and he said they were molesum contagiosum, he treated them as flat warts before. I was really confused that he was now calling them something different. I have read that the persistent onset of molesum is an indicator of HIV. I had a negative test in March of this year. Should I be concerned because there are quite a few molescums and after we freeze them, they come back.

Thanks in advance for your help and guidance. <3

[ashleymarrie]

A related discussion, groth behind eye was started.

[OogaBooga]

Thank you for the response, I went and got a rapid HIV test and it was neg, and the growth under the eye seems harmless. Thanks again, Ooga

[Alan Rockoff, MD]

He would have notices the bump under the eye, so I don't think you need to worry about herpes there.

Mollusca can look like flat warts when they're very small, so the change in diagnosis is understandable, and the treatment is the same.  Mollusca are very common in adults and kids who have nothing else wrong with them.  Since there's no other reason to worry about HIV (your recent negative test), I wouldn't let this diagnosis concern you in that regard.

Mollusca often come in large numbers and need to be frozen several times.

Best.

Dr. Rockoff