Hi

I have and had it removed on Monday, I have just wrote a post as found things online to be fairly negative. Feel free to message me if you want to talk about it. I know I could have done with that. 

Hi MelW

Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post.  Please may I ask if you are in the UK?  as my GP said that dermo were not seeing patients and I would probably not be seen until at least March 2021.  I am a born worrier so i sit here doing the worst thing possible, looking at images on the internet and wondering 'what if' it spreads.  I am seriously thinking of going private for an initial consultation but then, if i need treatment, not sure how I could afford that.  

Also, please how did they remove it?  

Thanks in advance

Hi

Yes I am in Southampton, they should refer you under the 2 week wait process, you need to call them and ask you to do that as any suspected cancer should be seen at the hospital within 2 weeks even with Covid..where are you? 

I am exactly the same and I went to some really dark places on Google. How long has it been there? I thought mine had been there a few months but looking back at photos it may have been there a few years.

They injected the area to numb it like you would have at the dentist and then they literally just cut it out. I have a fairly long scar which is still raw, it will fade over time. 

I also had headaches and worried but they are a stand alone thing and the consultant said that it wouldn't cause any headaches. 

I still have one on my arm that they didn't get to yesterday, it is about the size of a pea and they were not stressing about it at all they said they will remove it after Christmas. This is how mild they are. I had 3 in total in different places on my body and I was terrified that they had spread bit they are 100% certain that this is not the case as this type doesn't spread. 

The consultant I saw said that unless they left for years and years and are the size of a golf ball then they do not spread. 

The Internet can be a really dark place. 

Please do not worry it will be OK but I would call the doctors and ask for the referral as soon as you can. I know it is so easy to say because I have been where you are but they are treatable. 

Hi

Yes I am in Southampton, they should refer you under the 2 week wait process, you need to call them and ask you to do that as any suspected cancer should be seen at the hospital within 2 weeks even with Covid..where are you? 

I am exactly the same and I went to some really dark places on Google. How long has it been there? I thought mine had been there a few months but looking back at photos it may have been there a few years.

They injected the area to numb it like you would have at the dentist and then they literally just cut it out. I have a fairly long scar which is still raw, it will fade over time. 

I also had headaches and worried but they are a stand alone thing and the consultant said that it wouldn't cause any headaches. 

I still have one on my arm that they didn't get to yesterday, it is about the size of a pea and they were not stressing about it at all they said they will remove it after Christmas. This is how mild they are. I had 3 in total in different places on my body and I was terrified that they had spread bit they are 100% certain that this is not the case as this type doesn't spread. 

The consultant I saw said that unless they left for years and years and are the size of a golf ball then they do not spread. 

The Internet can be a really dark place. 

Please do not worry it will be OK but I would call the doctors and ask for the referral as soon as you can. I know it is so easy to say because I have been where you are but they are treatable. 

Hi

I am in Buckinghamshire.

Thank you, I will call my GP again on Friday (she doesn't work Thursdays) and see if she can chase it up a bit.  To me, it seems to have changed shape a bit in the last few weeks.  There is also a mole near my ear which I'm worried about too, which I want to show her.  I don't like 'chasing them up' or 'being a nuisance' but I'm going to have to.

I get headaches/migraine the side of the BCC so, as you can imagine, I'm thinking all sorts of worse case scenarios.  

I am so glad that you got treated so quickly and I hope I can get seen soon too to stop me worrying.  

Thank you again for your kind words and reassurance.

No problem, I was googling things like brain tumours and all sorts so I can imagine exactly how you are feeling. Don't feel like you are being a pain, they expect people to be worried. Mine changed too and that is one of the reasons I went, take pictures every day, that is what I did and I showed them when I was there. I am keeping my fingers crossed you get seen soon to stop you worrying. As soon as you see someone you will feel much better. Please update the thread as I would like to know how you got on. 

Recently diagnosed so appreciate seeing people have been in exactly same place I am right now. Had a small 2mm spot/tiny ulcer on top left forehead come up in late June in an area remember getting burnt whilst on holiday years ago where gave me bit of pigmentation that had removed years ago through peel/IPL. 

I know a BCC is common but I feel completely broken as to what any surgery will involve as was confirmed as BCC by letter after a biopsy and said referred to a plastic surgeon.....this in itself terrified me as thought that screams of reconstruction etc (although all face ones may be done by them as they are better placed for neat removal) and did what everyone does and saw things online of huge wounds/grafts/flaps etc and and literally not eating or sleeping over it :( 

I have spent most waking hours so far scrutinising every part of my face thinking every little spot etc is going to be another one and can feel myself sinking over it all. I hope that like lot of people it is a local anaesthetic and simple small removal but just can't think rationally at the moment at all :( 

EDIT: Just seen that Angie T had replied to a previous post I made about this after I just posted this so thank you so much for replying Angie.

Hello, 

I hope that you are doing OK, I had a notification that you replied to my post from last year and thinking back to that time I remember how worrying and horrific it was to live through, so I wanted to pop on and say please do not panic. 

I have been where you are now and I have the biggest health anxiety but it will be OK. I was convinced I had a brain tumour at the time too, the whole thing consumed me for weeks and I checked every inch of my body. I was convinced I had more on my back and my arm but although they removed the one from my back it turned out that it wasn't one after testing. The one on my arm also disappeared. The one on my head had been there for a year or so

Mine was on my head and I was worried, it was 6mm which is quite big. They removed it in less than 2 hours and despite it being a bit uncomfortable they didn't need to do a skin graft or anything. I do think this is quite rare. I barely have a scar there now. I was awake but the whole area is numb. The worst bit was the injection to numb the area. 

If you have any questions please ask, I am a year on now and I am perfectly fine now

Mel

Hiya 

Thank you so much for taking the time to reply. So I had my initial visit with the plastic surgeon today and didn't go the way I'd hoped to be honest as he said that where mine is on the forehead, there isn't much spare skin to be able to to a regular closure with a line scar one removes the area required (around size of a 10p piece for those in the UK) and would need a small graft from above collar bone as aesthetically gives best match.

I was quite prepared for the op and the idea of a 'regular' scar but now this thing of a graft just sounds way more disfiguring although appreciate it won't be that big and scars fade quite quickly so shouldn't focus on how it will look at first but its just knocked me right back again to be honest to the extent I may ask about an option to have it treated by radiotherapy which seems to also offer high success rate also although do seem to recall someone saying on the forum previously that radiotherapy can also cause scarring, discolouration, pigmentation that can be permanent. I get the impression that the decision lies with me as in if I really don't want surgery I can have the other treatment but just don't know what to do for the best at the minute :(