Seepra

Hello Lyric and others, I noticed my grey line or stroke on May 2012 and as the line got darker and wider I went to see a dermatologist on Dec 2012. The line was 4mm wide and almost black. I was sent to my first biobsy. It was a punch biobsy and was useless. Then I was sent to a doctor who actually knew something about subungual melanoma and she took proper biobsy from nail matrix. Nothing was found. The nail grew back and the dark line appeared. Then another biobsy by famous melanoma specialist and nothing was found. New nail, new line. On fourth biobsy the nail was removed permanently and no reason for the stroke was found. Maybe there was nothing or maybe the pathologists were not able to locate the target as these symptoms are very very rare in Scandinavia. I have read that a person with blond hair, fair skintype, like I have, does not have black strokes under the nails without a reason. The reason could be mole or melanoma or whatever, but there must be a reason. I still have 200 photos of my thumb in different stages. It's now a thumb without nail, but it did not have melanoma, so far. I made myself stop being scared and try to forget the risk of melanoma because in my case there is nothing I can do more, unless the stroke comes back. Hopefully not. All the best for you who fight with this horrible thing!

Hello Lyric and others, I noticed my grey line or stroke on May 2012 and as the line got darker and wider I went to see a dermatologist on Dec 2012. The line was 4mm wide and almost black. I was sent to my first biobsy. It was a punch biobsy and was useless. Then I was sent to a doctor who actually knew something about subungual melanoma and she took proper biobsy from nail matrix. Nothing was found. The nail grew back and the dark line appeared. Then another biobsy by famous melanoma specialist and nothing was found. New nail, new line. On fourth biobsy the nail was removed permanently and no reason for the stroke was found. Maybe there was nothing or maybe the pathologists were not able to locate the target as these symptoms are very very rare in Scandinavia. I have read that a person with blond hair, fair skintype, like I have, does not have black strokes under the nails without a reason. The reason could be mole or melanoma or whatever, but there must be a reason. I still have 200 photos of my thumb in different stages. It's now a thumb without nail, but it did not have melanoma, so far. I made myself stop being scared and try to forget the risk of melanoma because in my case there is nothing I can do more, unless the stroke comes back. Hopefully not. All the best for you who fight with this horrible thing!

Hello Lyric and others, I noticed my grey line or stroke on May 2012 and as the line got darker and wider I went to see a dermatologist on Dec 2012. The line was 4mm wide and almost black. I was sent to my first biobsy. It was a punch biobsy and was useless. Then I was sent to a doctor who actually knew something about subungual melanoma and she took proper biobsy from nail matrix. Nothing was found. The nail grew back and the dark line appeared. Then another biobsy by famous melanoma specialist and nothing was found. New nail, new line. On fourth biobsy the nail was removed permanently and no reason for the stroke was found. Maybe there was nothing or maybe the pathologists were not able to locate the target as these symptoms are very very rare in Scandinavia. I have read that a person with blond hair, fair skintype, like I have, does not have black strokes under the nails without a reason. The reason could be mole or melanoma or whatever, but there must be a reason. I still have 200 photos of my thumb in different stages. It's now a thumb without nail, but it did not have melanoma, so far. I made myself stop being scared and try to forget the risk of melanoma because in my case there is nothing I can do more, unless the stroke comes back. Hopefully not. All the best for you who fight with this horrible thing!