Petrified! Health anxiety skin lymphoma!

[Deer246]

Please help me, I’m completely consumed with the fear that I have skin lymphoma. I developed 3 patches on my hand 2 weeks ago, they are brownish red not itchy. They are not bruises and now I’ve convinced myself it’s skin lymphoma. I spend most of last night on google and I’m paralysed with fear and have a toddler to entertain all day. I’m so scared. I don’t want to die and leave my little one. I’ve been trying to think rationally about how else they could have for there, at one point I thought I was cooking the day before they appeared and there was steam coming out of the pan which could have caught my hand... but surely that would have hurt?

I can’t think straight. Just finding this all emotionally completely draining. Please can someone talk me down

Oh bless you, you sound just like me with stuff like this.. I have a 2 year old and had a similar scare lAst year with a lump, my life was taken over by fear and panic attacks . Turned out to be nothing! I don’t know you and your history , but I can probably tell you that I’m 99% certain it isn’t anything sinister . Plus have you had a look into skin lymphoma ? It’s very rare that it turns serious or even spreads , why don’t you give your GP a call for a chat with them, they will quickly put your mind at rest x

Thanks for the message hun, and sorry to hear you are also plagued with this type of anxiety. Honestly it’s destroying me. My gp is useless I have no faith in them. I see someone different every time and now they have caught on to the fact that I do have anxiety they don’t even take me seriously. Earlier this week I was worried about oral cancer and so logic would tell me this is my anxiety. But then what are these marks? I have no siblings so if something happened to me I don’t know who would give love and cage to my little one. I’m just so petrified.

I looked into skin lymphoma and yes people can live with it normally and die with it as opposed to because of it. Why am I still so scared. Too scared to even move.

Hey , I also had a major panic on oral cancer too last week , turns out it was a blood blister in my mouth . I was petrified for 2 days straight . NOT HEALTHY!

Do you have photos of the marks ? Marks can come and go on our skin for no reason at all , or they may be a reason which could be something small.

Please try not to be scared , you won’t die and you aren’t going to leave your toddler , I fully believe that !

This is the pic it’s the skin between the knuckles

Can anyone shed any light on this? Should I be worried?