Hi everyone,
First of all I suffer from health anxiety surrounding cancer (I'm receiving treatment for this). I've never had cancer and it doesn't run in my family but it's just what my anxieties have latched on to. Anyway, I've had a small (5mm) skin coloured bump on my ankle. I think it's been there for a year and has never changed. I've always just assumed it's a cyst. However, when I started suffering from health anxiety it started to worry me. I'm in my 30s and it's an area that never really sees the sun so I know it's so unbelievably unlikely it's cancer. I was a bit silly and picked at it a bit hoping it would go away. Now it's gone a bit red and scabby which is making me panic more even though I know it's gone scabby because I messed with it. My doctors aren't doing face to face appointments at the moment and I know if I phone them they'll say it's a cyst. I even paid a one of fee for an online doctor to have a look at a picture of it and they said it was a cyst. I know I'm being ridiculous and so many of you are battling illness and are so brave but I didn't know where else to turn.
