A dark spot showed up on my foot about a year or so ago. I saw it this morning and it seems to have grown since I last checked. It isn't bumpy and feels like normal skin. Should I go to a doctor and have it checked out? Pic: Spoiler
Looks like a mole (not the elevated one). Better go to a doctor if it grows larger or starts to itch/bleed on its own.
Couldn't it just be a freckle? Dude, last year, right where your thumb and index finger split, I had this enormous brown discoloration for like 2 months. It just appeared one day, and then one day, 2 months later it was gone. It covered like 1/4 of the top of my hand, the left one, right side of the hand. My brother told me it was because I was sleeping with a mexican and that I was turning into one. lol I was sure it was cancer, and that I was going to die. I never did see a doctor though, guess I really don't care that much if I die. If you do, you should see a doctor. Why not?
Definitely looks like a mole. I thought you're born with a mole though. Not grow one when you're an adult.
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Get it checked out by a dermatologist. If it's melanoma and you catch it early enough it could be no big deal. If you wait to long it is a very big deal. If your skin developed spots like that you are probably at a higher risk for melanoma anyway so you need to have a skin check regardless. A skin check usually takes only a few minutes unless they find something. Don't put off the check. It's not that expensive to get a skin check by a dermatologist. My mother died of melanoma years ago and it started with a dark spot on her skin that she originally thought was just a mole.
I've seen him post before, he never talks like that. I don't understand why you're projection racial prejudices on him.
My friend had one the size of a silver dollar and growing on his chest and by the time he got it checked he had stage 3 Melanoma. He went through a year of interferon, felt better, got a nearly clean bill of health (because when you've had cancer of that sort I guess you're never free of it). 6 months later he started getting very bad headaches and used his gold card (he never had insurance which was why he hadn't gone earlier) to get tests. It took them more than 6 months to get results back. They finally got them back about a month after he died. The cancer had spread through his entire body. Three things about that: 1. I miss my friend every day. We were friends since high school, over 20 years, and we made theatre together right up to the year of his death. 2. If he'd had insurance or some other access to health care instead of having to wait in the gold card line he'd be alive today. Vote Democrat and demand that for-profit insurance companies get out of the health care business. We need a single payer system so that care can be placed ahead of profit. 3. That mark looks small to me but I would have any new mark checked by a doctor.
I also have a big birthmark on my back that does look sick but hasn't really given me anything to worry about. Possibly related? Spoiler
I expect karma for this reply. The first image is a freckle, benign and not be worried. Freckles can form almost anywhere. The second images is a giant pigmented nevus, and that should be monitored because it has a significant potential to transform into a malignant melanoma. I would keep an eye on it and if you see anything that seems new or unusual, let your doctor know.
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