Red spot on back persistant scab please help

[Beya4567]

I noticed yesturday that i have a small scab on my back lower down towards bottom of spine i picked it and now it's red and sore however I now remember picking the same spot months back...and freaking out its a bcc or skin cancer.....I defiantly picked the same area atleast 6 months back..I'm dead and the cancer has spread everywhere I no it has

Monitor it for 6 months. Go back if it doesn't settle down. It's good that it's nothing super scary on first examination but doesn't hurt to keep a check on things. I was told my skin cancer was nothing but went back and I needed chemo cream which got rid of it in 6 weeks.

Exactly 🤦‍♀️

It may well be a basal cell carcinoma, my Dr did miss one but when I changed Dr's he spotted it. This was years later. I have had four removed so far and have another that needs looking at. You can have them for years, they are unsightly but pretty harmless.

Oh no, don’t encourage her!

My point is it was nothing, I wouldn't have died from it,just needed cream every day which got rid of it. There are so many different types of cancers.

So after picking the sed scab last week it's now at a scab again...so do i just ignore this yeah...even tho every other scab on my body scabs then goes away....I just ignore this one yeah and pretent it's not there.????

Of course it keeps scabbing if you keep picking at it ffs!

You need to stop picking at it - cover it with a small Elastoplast maybe ? You seem determined to make it worse to feed your anxiety

Are you for real?!?! Stop it!! It’s not an issue. Maybe make another appt for some counselling for your anxiety.
why are you doing this to yourself, you are feeding the beast by posting on here all the time.

Of course it won't heal if you keep picking it,leave it alone!

You need to go to a dermatologist. You can pay privately. Book the appointment now and don't wait. In the meantime you can download the skin vision app and take a photo of the lesion. It will tell you instantly what the risk of it being cancer is and will also keep a record of it for monitoring purposes. It costs money but worth every penny if you have really bad anxiety.

So you pick at a scab KNOWING this will lead to another scab - YOU are causing this!

I havnt picked it at all the scab is from the other day when I did its formed another scab..I HAVE NOT PICKED IT AGAIN..the scab won't go away

Stop bloody picking.

As it'll heal, it'll scab over and drop off. You have to leave it alone. All quite normal.

Edit: xpost

It takes longer than a couple of days. Just leave it.

Just go and see your doctor, it’ll be nothing and you’re getting in a complete tiswas. I recognise this as I’m the same by the way! Breathe, ring the GP or even do an online request including photographs and details of what’s happened

The OP has already been to the GP.

So, have i got it straight that you have pain in your arm and a spot on your back that you both somehow see as linked in a rare form of advanced cancer? @Beya4567 even for me as a health anxiety sufferer that is an extreme jump. Are you able to recognize that this is your health anxiety talking and it doesn't make sense, especially when you have already had both issues checked out by medically trained professionals?
You have posted multiple physical symptoms over the past year that you were all convinced were a terminal illness.
Are you aware of the fact that untreated anxiety and stress actually are harmful to your health and that you are currently making yourself sick with worry?
I feel for you as I know what spiralling feels like but you really need to work on self awareness and recognize the disease that is staring you in the face.

Leave it for 2 weeks, go back of it isn't healed by then.

Wouldn't hurt to put a Compede plaster on it.

It wont have healed thats my point ....the scab has been there for a year thats what I'm getting at.....its like I have a shower it gets soft and then forms another scab....my docter seems to think it's nothing and dismissed me basically but she saw it when I'd picked it. And then I remembered I'd picked the exact same spot about 6-8 months ago and it never went...peolle on here seem to think it's a new scab j keep picking but that's not the case

It's been the same scab for months that's my point it wont go

I havnt picked the scan for about 6-8 months that's my point.....I just noticed recently that when ive picked it the other day that ite the same scab ive picked before months ago

I dont keep picking it 👌👌ffs if u read my full post u will see i noticed that it's the same scab from months ago that hasn't gone

Take a photo of it today,take another in 2 weeks time then go back to the GP and ask to be referred to the dermatologist. Anything non healing needs to be checked out.