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        Wow!  That just seems so crazy…..so it sounds like the biopsy is the really only thing to know for sure.  Thankfully my Dermatologist is pretty conservative and I know she will remove for biopsy.  I've never had anything like ths b4 just sort of appear out of no where like this…and it's definitely growing…My dr. appt is 7/26, and thankfully my hubby and I are leaving town b4 that to celebrate our 15 year wedding anniversary!  I hate the waite and worry part of this….Best wishes and prayers to you all fighting this horrible disease! 

        Julie

        JPost
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          Wow!  That just seems so crazy…..so it sounds like the biopsy is the really only thing to know for sure.  Thankfully my Dermatologist is pretty conservative and I know she will remove for biopsy.  I've never had anything like ths b4 just sort of appear out of no where like this…and it's definitely growing…My dr. appt is 7/26, and thankfully my hubby and I are leaving town b4 that to celebrate our 15 year wedding anniversary!  I hate the waite and worry part of this….Best wishes and prayers to you all fighting this horrible disease! 

          Julie

          JPost
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            Thx Janner.  this one just sort of "popped up" out of no where, and I didn't have it when we were on Spring Break in FL (as I lotion up of course!), and it's certainly not like any of my moles I've ever had…I have very fair skin, and when my "crazy moles" were noticed and taken off, they all fit the "ABCDE" of current a current mole….I've never had one just pop up like this, so it's sort of foreign to me…interesting tho' as my 2 daughters (I have 4 kids, all who have some sort of crazy skin stuff!), my (then 5 year old) daughter had a growth pop up on her chin/face…was surgically removed and was found to be a Spitz Nevis…my other daughter had a long standing growth on her lower shin, turned out to be Dermatofibroma…so who knows, huh?!  crazy stuff….:)  I'm not going to worry, I'm not going to worry (repeat, repeat!)…thx again!

            JPost
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              Thx Janner.  this one just sort of "popped up" out of no where, and I didn't have it when we were on Spring Break in FL (as I lotion up of course!), and it's certainly not like any of my moles I've ever had…I have very fair skin, and when my "crazy moles" were noticed and taken off, they all fit the "ABCDE" of current a current mole….I've never had one just pop up like this, so it's sort of foreign to me…interesting tho' as my 2 daughters (I have 4 kids, all who have some sort of crazy skin stuff!), my (then 5 year old) daughter had a growth pop up on her chin/face…was surgically removed and was found to be a Spitz Nevis…my other daughter had a long standing growth on her lower shin, turned out to be Dermatofibroma…so who knows, huh?!  crazy stuff….:)  I'm not going to worry, I'm not going to worry (repeat, repeat!)…thx again!

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