Hi all, I am a 60 yr old female, who growing up by the bay on Long Is, had my share a badly blistered sunburns in the 70’s. My dad had squamous cell for decades, and since I seem to follow him health-wise, I’m probably a bit paranoid about any oddities I see on my skin.
Back in the first week of March I saw this weird pink bump on left forearm, within a few days it shot up, by the 3rd wk of March it grew to 9mm high and 6mm wide. I did some reading and it sounded like something called a kerancthoma, but it never had the crater-like middle, it kind of reminded me of a cone-shaped pencil eraser. After the first week I foolishly picked at it, which made it bleed, so over the course of a weeks it got scaly. started a light pink, but got darker. BUT I do cycle 2hrs daily outside, and through the month of April, it did not grow at all, it was still the same dimensions, but slightly shriveling.
On May 5th I had put 3 cycling jackets on (was chilly) and I went to roll up my left 3 sleeves as I hurried out the door – it ripped the growth half off, I saw stars!! I wrapped a hand towel on my arm to stop the bleeding, did not know what to do, so I just yanked at it and pulled the whole thing off. I put the growth in a baggie and it is in my freezer. The area was scabbing over, then on May 15th, strangely enough i was rolling up the sleeves of the same 3 jackets and it pulled the scab right off.
Here am I 2 wks later with this white, flat scab which seems so odd to me how it just seems to have gone away.
The point of my long winded post, is back in April I tried to get an appt with a dermatologist at KP, the soonest I could get is this Wed., June 6th. I am doing my best right now to save and do not want to waste my (nor a doc’s) time/money. Since it virtually appears to have been nothing serious, would it make sense to go to the dermatologist? I’m leaning strongly on canceling the appt and waiting it out, was curious if that sounds sound o you all.
Also I do have a tiny dry patch of skin on my face (translucent) that, at times, if I run my fingernail over it, it stings, but I am thinking that it just a dry patch that might be infected.
TY for listening!!
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