Hi

i have only just found the potential melanoma 5 days ago. However I dont feel I have time to wait and want to know who can help me or what I can do with regards to my symptoms if a life threatening illness.

I found out today the referral the GP/nurse i saw on Friday who said she’d send the referral to the dermatologist that day actually only sent it this morning and didn’t send a referral she sent a request for advice ‘to put my mind at rest as she was very anxious’ it said in the notes. I only found that out because I needed to call dermatology unit to let them know of my quite rapidly worsening symptoms…

My legs become incredibly weak that I MUST sit down when I walked for about an hour yesterday and the day before. As I’ve not been very active recently I’d not noticed it like this but had felt very unusually fatigued. It had happened about two weeks ago when I was working in a new job that was lots of walking and I had to take two days off my new job and got sacked cos it was first month of the job.

Today I haven’t done any walking but I tried some seated yoga where I twist the wrists around to stimulate pranayama and helps the lymphatic system and my body started shaking, although I’m cold, it’s strange that when I start moving it got worse even my teeth started chattering, like it went into shock and parts of my abdomen organs felt completely full of this hardened energy. I also had a moment where I felt a quick sharp pain under armpits like the energy/bacteria was attacking me there. 

MOST WORRYINGLY I have felt my spine feels gradually weaker the last few days. Last night I had a bath and once I got out I had to lay down I couldn’t stand or sit and my back and spine felt so weak and tender I just needed to be flat I was crying in discomfort it felt so strange. This morning although I’ve been upright by whole back has been painful tender and tight especially spine feels like there’s a lot of energy in it and moving my shoulders forward made the melanoma area feel bruised as it’s on middle of back. 

i have informed GP surgery today of worsening symptoms and that I want a proper referral and they have passed this on to the GP/nurse who I saw which I hope she won’t just go by Google images to make her own decision. I also called cancer research helpline as I thought they might listen but she said none of my symptoms are like cancer. but I know they are and I’ve never ever felt like this and it’s all around this big mole. 

I cannot understand why they are so resistant to help. I know a lot of people that have been through similar so why GP’s and nurses keep saying ‘it doesn’t look like one’ when not many peoples confirmed skin cancer looked like ‘one’.

I’d like to know what anybody else knows based on experience or knowledge an whether there is anybody who I can get to treat my case  differently to ‘just an anxious mind’. 

thank you