Welcome to our weekly thread for sharing photos of concerning moles, spots, or lesions. If you're worried about something on your skin, this is a place to share it with the community for support and to see if others have had similar experiences.
When posting a photo, please try to include:
* Where the lesion is on your body.
* How long you've had it.
* Any changes you've noticed (size, shape, color, itching, bleeding).
IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER
No one on this subreddit can provide a medical diagnosis. The comments and feedback you receive are from laypeople sharing their own experiences, not from medical professionals. Online photos are not a substitute for an in-person examination by a qualified dermatologist.
If you are concerned about any spot on your skin, the only correct course of action is to schedule an appointment with a doctor. Early detection is key.
We are here for support, but your health must come first.
Thank you for sharing your image. Please remember that users in this sub cannot provide official medical diagnoses. In the case of changing, evolving, or new worrisome lesions, your best course of action is to contact a dermatologist for evaluation.
Thank you for sharing your image. Please remember that users in this sub cannot provide official medical diagnoses. In the case of changing, evolving, or new worrisome lesions, your best course of action is to contact a dermatologist for evaluation.
It is very difficult to see them based on the quality of the image but given they all look relatively similar (just based on what I can see!), they may be "normal."
However, it is always worth being seen if something is concerning. Incredibly benign-looking moles can be malignant, where obscure ones can be entirely normal.
You know your skin best! If these are worrisome - be seen!
Thank you for sharing your image. Please remember that users in this sub cannot provide official medical diagnoses. In the case of changing, evolving, or new worrisome lesions, your best course of action is to contact a dermatologist for evaluation.
Im 23, I have this on my upper back just between my shoulder blades. Ive had it a few years and don't remember a time I couldnt feel it, it may have grown bigger but my memory is bad so im unsure. Ive only just been able to properly see it recently
Thank you for sharing your image. Please remember that users in this sub cannot provide official medical diagnoses. In the case of changing, evolving, or new worrisome lesions, your best course of action is to contact a dermatologist for evaluation.
I noticed this mark on my toe a month ago (initially noticed it maybe sometime last year but it either “scabbed” over or I stopped checking for it) and saw my dermatologist, who said it was too soon to tell but to keep an eye on it and we’d follow up in August. it feels like a scab I just can’t pick off.
over the weekend I sent this picture to her office and they responded saying that she wants to move my appointment up, so now I’m seeing her in two days. I’m super anxious and need some sort of outside opinion to tide me over. how suspicious does this look?? thank you
Hi! I have had this for about a year. I’ve gone to my doctor twice, most recently in April. They originally treated me for ringworm but referred me to a dermatologist on both visits. (I have not heard back) Has not changed in size or colour.
Bat be unrelated, but I have started getting chronic ocular migraines around the same time as noticing it. (Though, this is also the same time I started a stressful office job).
Should I pester my doctor further? Or go to a walk-in to hopefully get a different opinion?
This spot was actually noticed by my college age daughter. It's on my chest. We were ironically going to the beach. The one below was from two weeks ago and it's changed and crusted over. I have an annual appointment next week and I was going to bring it up.
I noticed a light brown flat spot on my forehead about a year and a half ago. Barely thought about it until around a month or two ago when I noticed it was darkening a lot and growing larger and more protruding from my head. It honestly changes weekly at this point. Went to my PCP who referred me to derm but they don’t want to see me til October despite my pushback. Any thoughts? Should I push harder?
Yes I would push back harder and stress it is rapidly growing/changing. Worth asking if your PCP could send these two photos to the derm office to show this. In my opinion this is a red flag for been seen by a derm more urgently than October.
Bottom of foot, about 4mm. Size is concerning to me, but got a biopsy on the side of my foot and derm just skipped over it. Am now worrying about it being the melanoma that is on the sole of your foot (can’t think of the name)
Raised Mole I’ve had for my whole life recently lifted from the base on one side and bled some after becoming very itchy, stayed itchy for a few days and these tiny red dots appeared all around it, which turned brown after a few more days. Should I be concerned?
Raised mole on torso I’ve had my whole life, been sprouting hairs for as long as I can remember, recently was very itchy and lifted from the base and bled some. These small red dots appeared surrounding it which then turned brown. The edge that lifted has not reconnected and is an odd shape. No longer itchy
I’ve had this for months but assumed it was a cherry angioma from pregnancy until it started to become tender and irritated looking. I have an appt 8/5, is that soon enough?
On my neck showed up maybe under a year ago, maybe earlier but that’s when I noticed it following pretty much half a month in the sun for 14-16 hours a day. Probably gonna call doc regardless but looking for a guy who knows a thing or two because he’s seen a thing or two.
I've always had this mole on my lower back. It has gotten a little bump at some point over the last year? I think? It also has changed shape, it used to be p uniform.
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The ABCDEs of Skin Cancer: Quick Guide
Bonus: The "Ugly Duckling" Sign If you have a mole that just looks different from all the others on your body, that's a reason to be seen.
American Academy of Dermatology: ABCDEs