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Thank you for your kind reassuring advice. Yep, have worked on this through counselling and even tried medication. Tough thing to stop though since fear was formed in childhood. Am sure that if I had had a kind doctor when I was young this I would not have such fears. Short tempered doctors leave a very lasting impression on small children and I am not sure they realize the damage they are doing while trying to help us.
Thanks, Jerefrancis.
As to jte777, please don't freeze the spot--no danger, but nobody's going to be able to tell you what it is, if it's all scabbed up.
You may want to consider some counseling for your apparent obsessions....
Dr. Rockoff
It sounds like a freckle or a small mole. You might well have overlooked it, because it's obviously a place you don't look very often. Because you're so worried about it, nothing is going to reassure you unless a doctor sees you in person. It's a question of which you prefer: overcoming your doctor phobia and springing for one visit, or remaining anxiety-ridden over something that's almost certainly nothing. Your call.
By the way, if you have as many moles as you say, you should have yourself looked over by a dermatologist annually anyway.
Best.
Dr. Rockoff
I do not know if this will be helpful to you, but (and Iknow I probably should not have done this, so please do not yell at me) but I tried applying one of those home freezing wart removal kits to the spot. This morning it looks much darker, almost black. Do not know if that indicates anything or not. Before it was brown and less visible, but now seems much darker, though size remains the same. Sorry to be such a bother to such a busy man as I am sure you are but I am beginning to scare myself beyond what is probably logical.
As always, many many thanks.
John
Dude...chill out, let the doctor answer one question at a time. Understandly you paid 17 bucks to get a clear and concise answer, but give the poor doctor time to read your fable and he will answer your question in a timely manner. :)
Sorry for the after thoughts, but if it helps the mole is right at the border of where the darker color of the tissue around the anus transitions to the normal skin that covers most of the body. Sorry again for having to add this on, but wanted you to have a complete picture of what I see.
Did not mention that the small spot is not in the least painful. I did mention that it cannot be felt at all, but forgot to mention that there is no pain or itch associated with it at all. Just a small brown spot about over an inch from the anus on the inner hip. Thanks,
John
Just looked at many many pictures on the web. Though some of them look like what I had previously, 14 years ago, though much more wide spread, they do not look at all like what this little brown dot is. At least feel a little calmer until you respond. Where the previous ones were a long time ago show no signs at all and tissue appears to be normal.