melanoma fears...it always comes back

[gummyrozzo]

my original fear of melanoma was what made me make my first thread on this forum, and for a while ive not been worried about my moles (other stuff, sure, but my moles havent been an issue). unfortunately, today i noticed something after a shower. theres a mole on my right arm that a little bigger than the other ones, so i keep an eye on it. when i looked this time it was the same size as normal, but there was something odd there. on the edge, there was a little semicircle missing. like there was no pigment. it was like something tiny had taken a little bite out of the mole and there was no colour there. i think there was a similar colourless patch there before but now its very defined. beside the mole was a new mark that looked like the beginning of a pimple, and i thought that maybe there was a pimple on the mole that was pushing out the pigment? but i dont know if thats how it works. i dont want to make another doctors appointment bc i literally went not even a week ago for another health anxiety issue, but i can feel myself starting to worry. has anyone else ever had this?

 

[gummyrozzo]

ok so this is really weird. i asked my mum to look at the mole so check if she was seeing what im seeing, and she took a picture where i saw that the semicircle wasnt nearly as defined as it looked in other lightings. my mum pointed out that the mole kind of looks like an S shape, and while im like 80% sure it has looked like this the whole time i cant stop worrying. the mole looks like this. am i making things up? is this something i should even be concerned about? any advice or reassurance would be appreciated, i just dont want to end up at the doctors for no reason again :}

 

[bigjetplane6]

I myself always have HA over this.

 

[bigjetplane6]

How long have you had the mole? Is it since birth or you got it later in age?