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Description of in-transit met?

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    • October 24, 2017 at 4:38 am
    MovingOn
    Participant

      Hi everyone, On Wednesday I see my melanoma specialist/Oncologist so I’m definitely going to ask her about this. On my neck dissection scar (healed back in Feb-March) I now have a red bump which is very superficial (seems like it is in the skin rather than under it). My wife and I think it is just a mosquito bite. The main thing which disturbs me is that it is exactly on the surgical scar (not off to the left or right by even a millimeter). So the mosquito must have found that center point of the scar to be the best place to bite me (I don’t have feeling in the scar so I wouldn’t have felt a mosquito Land or bite).

      My question is: Do in-transit Mets resemble mosquito bites (red, raised)?

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        • October 24, 2017 at 5:38 am
        Janner
        Participant

          Possibly a stitch or stitch material being rejected?  Glad you're seeing your doc and hopefully it is nothing but a skeeter bite!

          • October 24, 2017 at 9:13 pm
          Julie in SoCal
          Participant

            I have had many in-transits and they have never looked like a bite.  They've always just felt like hard peas under my skin. Sometimes I can see a dark something through the skin.  But not often – I don't let them stay around that long.

            Trust you "funk" (what I call the unknown stuff) turn out to be nothing.

            Shalom,

            Julie

            • October 25, 2017 at 1:21 am
            MovingOn
            Participant

              Thank you! That is exactly the info I needed. I’ll get the official details tomorrow at the oncologist visit but I’m now fairly certain it is just a bug bite.

                • October 25, 2017 at 3:57 am
                SamS
                Participant

                  It's definitely worth checking. For the record my nodular in-transit met looked exactly like a mozzie bite that just never resolved. It was a couple of inches away from my initial primary site, so different to yours. But just so others know, it can look like a mozzie bite and no one was more shocked or disappointed by that news than me. There was another, smaller one next to it that I also had biopsied, and that came back as a nothing. So sometimes it can be, sometimes it isn't. Really glad you are getting it checked anyway and wish you well. 

                • October 25, 2017 at 6:17 pm
                Raeofsonshine
                Participant

                  Mine was a pea size lump under the skin, off about 3 inches from my scar. (primary tumor site).  Surgeon thought it was likely a lipoma, but it was melanoma.  Have a new one and hoping it's nothing.  But they both are just bumps under the skin.  I do have a lot of scar tissue down the middle of my zipper.  I know now, every little thing makes us stop and pause.  Take a breath! 

                  • October 25, 2017 at 9:39 pm
                  MovingOn
                  Participant

                    Oncologist appt today. She doesn’t think it is a mosquito bite but also doesn’t think it is melanoma. So we’re going to watch it for a week and then take the next steps, if it’s still apparent.

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