Re: A wart or something else?

Brian wrote:

> I'm currently trying to figure out if I should be worried about this
> growth I have on my chin.
>
> I guess a lot of people will wonder why I don't just see a doctor.
> Well...I'm currently not working and don't have any health insurance. I
> probably will eventually see a dermatologist but I thought I'd just post
> this here and see what you guys think.
>
> A couple of months ago, this thing just started growing on my chin.
> Basically, it just appeared. It looks like it could be a wart. It's about
> the size of a pencil eraser, is flesh colored and has a fairly rough
> surface. It does bleed fairly easily if I pick at it but it doesn't bleed
> or ooze constantly or anything.
>
> I tried Compound W (the acid) on it but that proved to be pretty
> useless. I also tried just pulling it off. I was able to do so but it
> just grew back both times I tried it. I tried the freeze off stuff and
> that seemed to be working at first but it just came back.
>
> Needless to say, I'm more than a little concerned. It doesn't look like
> any kind of skin cancer I've ever seen but then, I haven't really seen
> that many skin cancers. Also, there are several other similar (but
> smaller) growths around it. It's definitely not a pimple. It's firmly
> attatched to the skin and can't be popped. As far as I know, I don't have
> any of the risk factors for skin cancer. I don't spend much time in the
> sun (and never have), don't burn easily and have dark hair. Still, I'm
> freaked out by this. I'm starting to doubt that it's a wart because I'm
> just not a wart kind of guy. I've only had one wart that I know of in my
> life (I'm 32 and I was 21 when I had it and it was on my knee). The chin
> seems like an odd place for a relatively large wart, no?
>
> Anyway....another reason for my distress, as you no doubt guessed is
> that this is my face. Everywhere I go, people can easy see this thing and
> it's highly embarrassing. I'm not all that vain but still. I'm not the
> greatest looking guy in the world in the first place. I don't need a huge
> growth on my face to complicate matters.
>
> At any rate, if it isn't a wart, I have no clue what it could possibly
> be. I haven't been sexually active for years so I don't think it could be
> an STD. And again....I stay indoors almost all the time so you wouldn't
> think it would be a cancer. I DO smoke but you'd think anything that was
> going to cause would cause serious internal problems long before it'd
> just pop out on the chin.
>
> Anybody have any thoughts as to what it could be? Should I be really
> worried?

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/imagepages/3208.htm
One general practitioner visit and liquid nitrogen treatment shouldn't be
that expensive.
J

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