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What's this weird patch? Is it <gasp> old age?

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SouthWestmom · 26/04/2017 22:41

So this appeared over the last few days, should I be worried?

What's this weird patch? Is it <gasp> old age?
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zen1 · 26/04/2017 23:13

Is it slightly raised and dry or scaley? I had a fungal infection (ringworm) that looked quite like that.

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SouthWestmom · 26/04/2017 23:37

It is but it's not doing anything, not spreading etc

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Aquamarine1029 · 27/04/2017 01:29

My guess is ringworm or eczema. Get it checked.

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BornStroppy · 28/04/2017 22:13

psoriasis??

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Mamabear14 · 28/04/2017 22:17

Is it really itchy? It looks like ringworm, I had it on my leg when I was pregnant and my god I wanted to scratch my leg off.

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SouthWestmom · 28/04/2017 22:20

Nope not itchy. I suspect it's going to be something depressing like an age spot

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Rach6l · 28/04/2017 22:22

Where is it? I'm 40 & I have one age spot on my forehead Sad

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whatiswrongwithyou · 28/04/2017 22:23

ringworm

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SouthWestmom · 28/04/2017 22:24

Oh no, poor you! On my arm. Started as an itchy patch and now just a raised coloured patch. Kids all had ringworm, doesn't look like that and it's not changed or spread

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OhTheRoses · 28/04/2017 22:26

Discoid eczema but I can't open the pic. My ringworm didn't itch.

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LooksBetterWithAFilter · 28/04/2017 22:30

It's looks like the eczema I get. I had never had any allergies or eczema until I was 35 now I get patches like that all the time and am allergic to so many toiletries including my beloved gel nail polish.

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girlandboy · 28/04/2017 22:34

Have a Google at Pityriasis Rosea.
The doctor first thought mine was ringworm, but it turned out to be PR.

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IhatchedaSnorlax · 28/04/2017 22:37

Looks like an age spot to me (but I'm definitely not a doctor!).

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SouthWestmom · 28/04/2017 22:41

Ok enough doubt to get it checked. Mum gets skin cancer every so often and has a history of it so I guess I need to check stuff like this.

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sadie9 · 28/04/2017 23:39

You could get a tube of anti fungal cream (Daktarin) at the chemist over the weekend. If it's ringworm that'll probably take care of it. Age spots don't appear in a few days, nor does skin cancer.

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SouthWestmom · 10/05/2017 17:38

Mini update chemist thinks it isn't anything like ringworm but has given me a tube of hydrocortisone to try but maybe run past GP.
I want it to go before the Summer!!

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ragged · 10/05/2017 19:17

Images won't load for me. can you link to something similar online?

I get seborrhic kerotoses which are like... peel off age spots or moles. Harmless but kind of ugly. Grow, scale, itch, peel off, reappear several yrs later. Skin does weird things as you get older.

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SouthWestmom · 10/05/2017 19:33

Oh that sounds more likely, will Google

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ragged · 10/05/2017 19:37

get the spelling right (unlike me)
sebborhic kerotoses
I spot them on women age 40+ all the time, now. Many are just a patch of different skin.
I have 2 or 3 regulars that pop up every... ? 3-4 yrs.
First one appeared in my early 30s. Unhelpfully on my face!

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SouthWestmom · 10/05/2017 19:55

Ah ok I think that might be it. I'm slightly worried about skin cancer - do yours appear really quickly?

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ragged · 10/05/2017 20:08

Mine come out of nowhere, grow fast, slow down. I guess maybe 3 months from appearance to flaking off.

I got my 1st one so long ago it never crossed my mind to worry about it. I kind of know the rules now what is SK and what would be rather different. You could chat to a GP. They probably won't be experts but can refer you to a dermatologist. There are other types of skin growths to worry about and others that are harmless. Probably a lot more harmless than bad. But it takes a while to remember the rules to tell them all apart.

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ragged · 10/05/2017 20:13

One thing about SK is it never appears like an infection or a sore. It's really superficially sitting on the skin. My relatives who have had ... (I think it's basal carcinoma? The one that is only just barely bad news because it can be bad but actually almost none of them ever do progress) those thing went deep into the skin. My SK patches will bleed like buggery if I try to peel it off early, but they don't go into the skin, that I can tell, they peel off very cleanly.

Anyway, most MNers would tell you just go see the GP.

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SouthWestmom · 10/05/2017 20:25

It's on my arm. The photo shows it slightly raised. It definitely won't peel (ow!) . My family history is melanoma, basal carcinoma and squameous cells and then various cancers. So people either dead or with skin stuff. I have never had any, it's my siblings and parents and then wider family.

However this looks hopefully like a flat pale Sebb thing...

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SouthWestmom · 10/05/2017 20:26

Oh you have to touch the photo to make it all appear, just wondered where my arm had gone !

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ragged · 10/05/2017 21:14

Pics I can see on a different poota.
That's a lot of family history. I have 14 aunts-uncles + 30 1st cousins, so what happens to them just feels like random chance, not that close.

Something that comes up that big that fast seems like infection, not cells gone funny.

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