Sunbed Shock

These are the same types of people who say you should rub piss in your eyes and then that the redness of your eyes is because you’ve not quite rubbed enough piss in them yet.

Then they unironically call people sheep for believing in the conspiracy of repeatably provable science based medicine and advice. Why listen to that when you can rub piss in your eyes!? The sun doesn’t actually give you skin cancer, the pharmaceutical companies do.

OP I really hope you’ve seen a doctor because as PP have said, it’s a really serious state to put yourself in.

@SansaStark90 i hope you’ve been seen quickly last night and you’re feeling better.
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She hasn't posted at all today, so may not be reading any posts. I hope she went to A&E, but I very much doubt it, unfortunately. 🙁It's very worrying.

FFS OP GO TO A&E now!

I am always stunned sunbeds are still in business. I have known for decades about the link with skin cancer. The government should outright ban them. End of.

The good news is that their stupidity will naturally select them out of the human race, so we can all go back to not being so fucking insane.

How on EARTH are you still ALIVE?

Really? Good grief. That's one of the stupidest things I've ever read. Incredible.

I’ve seen them saying that the redness is toxins leaving your body after the sun has drawn them out. Idiots.

Yeah al all the influencers are always really red like doesn't it hurt apart from anything else??

I’m in some skin cancer support groups and they often pop up saying spf causes cancer and we should get into the sun more and use beef tallow etc

Sunbeds have been weirdly co-opted by the woo woo lot where I live, the same people that use beef tallow instead of sun cream boak

My lovely 21 year old niece goes on sunbeds weekly and is bright bloody orange!
I really wish she wouldn't do it at all but its none of my business I suppose, thankfully DD uses fake Tan instead

How are you doing? You’re in extreme pain, potentially have deep burns, feel unwell, have sought medical advice which says A and. I’m hoping you have seen a dr by now and are hopefully feeling a but better.

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(annoying carriage returns in the hope that OP sees it!)

I'm sorry you got diagnosed with melanoma but am glad you are recovered.

It is really really unlikely that one incident alone caused melanoma - with the exception of Nodular Melanoma (which is much rarer than other types, doesn't usually appear on hands and is more likely to be caused by excessive and prolonged sun exposure), melanomas are incredibly slow growing.

It's much more likely that it was already developing under the surface of your skin and the sunburn incident either triggered it to grow a little quicker or just drew attention to it by causing pigment changes — which probably did you a favour by allowing you to get an earlier diagnosis.

Hope you're feeling a little better now, OP. We've all done stupid things in our time - I'm sorry you're in such pain.

Hope you've gone to A&E and been seen. You do not have a bit of sunburn, like your mum said, 80% of your body is covered. Good luck!

@SansaStark90 Hope you've been treated, feel better and learnt your lesson for next time. Spray tans are ugly but then don't burn you (I hope) - may be the way to go next time if you really need darker skin.

I would complain to the shop about the staff member that clearly did not give you any advice or asked if you've used a sunbed before. It's dangerous.

So sorry this happened to you OP. Hope you feel better soon.

I scalded myself once. Sudocrem was bloody brilliant. Nothing to offer on sunbeds I'm afraid.

It’s the ones saying pop some yoghurt or coconut oil on it and have a nap that are making me rage at the phone screen.

This is so dramatic and also incorrect.

The misunderstanding of these types of statistics is a real bug bear of mine (and I use examples of it and how small risks are hyped up with scary statistics - particularly in the press - in some training that I have developed around understanding data)

Melanoma risk is 2.44% (1 in 41 women in the UK).

Use of sunbeds increases the risk by between 16% and 25% - but the statistics for this don't differentiate between how often the sunbed is used so will include heavy users as well as those who use it once.

For women who first use a sunbed under the age of 35 risk increases by 59%.

What that means in reality is that the general risk increases to 3.05% (1 in 33) or for women who first use a sunbed before the age of 35 it's 3.88% (1 in 26)

It sounds a lot, but when you take into account that this is a lifetime risk, the peak age for diagnosis is in those over 80 and the survival rate is 87.4% it really is not a huge risk.

The risk of actually dying from Melanoma is just 0.489% (1 in 204)

For context, the risk of getting into a serious road traffic accident and being killed or seriously injured is 3.44% (1 in 29) - higher than the melanoma risk.

So please can people stop quoting inflated statistics and making terrifying claims about the risks of melanoma! No wonder people have such health anxiety about things these days!

Anyone on here saying don’t go to A&E is utterly insane. The poor woman has burns on 80% of her largest bodily organ (one that keeps out infection amongst other things, and is compromised if blistered or damaged in any way). It could very quickly become an emergency.

I hope you’ve been seen by someone now OP and you’re on the road to feeling better. A horrible experience for you and extremely negligent of the salon worker.

I remember someone this burnt. It's a hospital job. Their dressings had to be changed every 48 hours. It wasn't pleasant but the treatment saved them from scarring and infection.