You know when you need to go to the doctors cos you've got a spotty thing you think might be cancer....

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Do you insist on an emergency next day appointment - ie have to battle with the evil receptionist...?

Or

Do you wait for the next available proper appointment which could be a couple of weeks off?

What sort of spotty thing?

Skin cancer type spotty thing? 1st available appointment.

Zit on end of hypochondriacs nose, proper appointment.

I think for your own sanity a next day appointment would be in order

I'd insist on an emergency appt.

But, I equally know that I have private meds, so all the GP has to do is refer me and it's going to take 2 minutes...

My Drs. practice never have a problem with fitting you in if all you need is a referal.

i had this couple of years ago receptionist got me next day appointment and seen at hospital about 10 days later,all ok

I'm fairly sure it's not a zit. Difficult to see properly cos it's on my back, but it really just doesn't feel like one. Not sore like a zit of that size would be, but slightly itchy. More like a large white raised mole.

Which I am sure was not there before.

And if it was there, it's grown.

I'm very fair skinned with lots of freckles and I confess I do get paranoid about my moley back. But this is odd.

And I've just looked at the Cancerbackup website and they say if it's there a month later then go to the doctors! A month???

Odd mole, itchy, fair skinned, no question get the first appointment possible. Still probably nothing, but take on the receptionist. It is none of her business anyway whay your appointment is for.

It is also possible to "map" your moles, so that in the future an accurate comparison can be made.

I found a lump under my arm on Sunday. the first appointment I could get was today at 4pm. I guess I should have invited but didn't want to make a fuss. I actually feel a fraud for even going and saying about it - how stupid is that

Thanks all.

I've just phoned the surgery. Pressed "2 to make an apppointment" and turns out they're not there this afternoon - was automatically put through to someone at the out of hours doctors who told me, sharply, to phone back in the morning for an appointment. I didn't get chance to say I didn't intend to phone the out of hours place.

I'm sorry, I get very wound up by our Drs Receptionists. Will call in the morning, hopefully get an appointment then.

Try not to worry. If it's white it doesn't even sound like a mole - it could be a wart, or a skin tag, or any number of harmless things. And you've only just found it so yes, get it checked, but I think next available appointment is fine.

Most sites I've googled say only a problem if same for four weeks. This hasn't been four weeks.

And I must stop googling. It's really not good.

Did you go to the doctors MMOC?

I had a horrid dark moley thing on my arm which sometimes itched. It appeared after I had spent a year backpacking around Australia. But I kind of ignored it and kept 'forgetting' to go to the docs. But it always was a worry at the back of my mind.

But the funny this was that last year it disappeared! All by itself! Now there's a sort of scar where it was, sort of like a childhood injection scar, but the mole has gone.

I'm not for one minute saying you should do what i did, just the opposite in fact, go to the docs asap. But i just wanted to share my weird but true story.

oneplusone - you know that at some point baby spiders will crawl en masse out of your ears? (It was the 'year spent backpacking around Australia' that rang the alarm bells...)

scampa, yes that is a possibility! But it was 14 years ago, but i suppose you never know..........

Just to try and reassure you, I have exactly the same thing - a white raised mole type thing on my back which is hard to see, also became itchy / bleeding and much bigger. Saw GP within a week, who was certain it was not cancer (another GP saw it about a month later and was equally certain). Showed me some pictures of malignant melanomas - were flat mishapen brown moles. Am on waiting list for removal (in about a year)

Dr. did tell me what it was (can't remember name) but definitely okay.

Any news MMOC?
What about you Thornyrose?

Hope all went well at the docs for both of you.

I went to the docs Madmentalbint, she said it was just a spot that went very deep. I was a bit about wasting her time, but she said its best to get these things checked out

Thanks for asking

Glad you're ok