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To NOT make an emergency GP appointment?

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TammyswansonTwo · 04/11/2017 18:35

I have quite a lot of moles, always have, although when I was pregnant I seemed to get more skin tags and small moles on the sides of the breast/ down my torso. There's a bigger one on the side of one breast and I got my GP to look at it a year ago and they said it was fine.

I've just looked closely at it now and some of the things about it concern me - it's asymmetrical, the border is ragged, there are different colours in it (one side is almost black and raised / scaly, the other side a lighter brown).

I showed my DH who is now panicking and says I need to get it looked at on Monday. It does meet some of the dodgy mole criteria but I looked up photos for each criteria and it doesn't look anywhere near as bad as those.

On the one hand I know it's a serious thing and I'm a mother, can't be too cautious, but I feel a bit of a prat asking for an emergency appointment when they'll probably just look at it and say it's nothing.

I should just make a routine appointment for a few weeks right? Or not?

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Upsy1981 · 05/11/2017 08:05

I would get the 'on the day' appointment. When I went with one of mine that had changed, the doctor agreed it was a little concerning and referred me but they do referrals for dodgy moles on the cancer pathway so you should get referred within 2 weeks. Doctors obviously don't think its worth waiting around for so neither should you.

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