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Originally Posted by bones
Have to go get some recently darkened mole checked today. rly hope i run good there
Good luck Bones.
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Originally Posted by juandadi
i had a mutant mole removed off my shoulder, cuz i thought it was malignant or what not, it wasnt phew......you dont feel anythin while they remove it at all, and u wont probly find anythin out til the do a biopsy on it... GL GL...
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Originally Posted by SlackerMcFly
Good luck Bones. Best to check these things out early. Last week, I had 8 pre-cancerous spots (yeah, EIGHT) burnt off of my face. Looked like a dalmation for a while.... But it's all good if caught early, so no worries man.
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Originally Posted by suzzer99
I have some weird thing on my chest close to my armpit. I went to the dermatologist because I also had a wart about 2 inches below it. Dermatologist said it's probably nothing. Only bad thing it could be is some ultra-rare form of sarcoma. But I can get a biopsy if I want.
It's Saturday so for some reason that means they can't tell if they take my insurance or not. Receptionist says you should have told us you had insurance. I say I did tell you you said no problem. ... Which means I have to pay and they will reimburse me if they take my insurance. I elect to skip the $250 biopsy and just keep an eye on it. Also knowing that was my last week of work.
Now it seems to be fading a little but I'm pretty sure I have sarcoma just because that's the effed up sequence of events that usually happens when these things play out. "If only you had come in 3 months earlier..."
Of course now I have no insurance so if I pay and find out it's sarcoma then I have a pre-existing condition. But if I get insurance and then immediately run in and get this looked at, and it turns out to be something serious, that's cherry picking and they will probably investigate.
Fun.
Suzzer - I'd pay the $250 and have it cut off if I were you - especially if there is any history of cancer in your family. I had one removed from my back a few years ago and it was pre-cancerous. They got rid of it all, so no big deal.
My dad ignored symptoms of colon cancer for six months. When he finally went in to get it looked at, it was the size of a baseball. Three years & 14 surgeries later (several major surgeries, including losing 2/3 of his lower intestines and having brain surgery), after the cancer had spread all over his body, including liver, lungs and brain, he died. Seeing it first hand, I cant imagine a more miserable way to go. BTW - the doctors told him if he had got it checked out when he first noticed the symptoms, it would have been one minor outpatient surgery to take care of it.
$250 is well worth the piece of mind, even if you cant afford it imo.
Last edited by cha59; 02-24-2009 at 03:07 PM.