hi everyone, i hope this is okay to post on this forum. i was just wondering if anyone was going through a similar experience to me, as i am worrying myself sick.

over the past year, i noticed a mole has grown on my chest. it seems to be one colour and a regular diameter, but is slightly elevated. what has concerned me so much is that it has appeared in a short space of time. it may be silly, but i have googled way too much and i am almost convinced that it is melanoma.

my doctors didn’t seem bothered and wouldnt even see me in person, so i have decided that i am seeing someone privately tomorrow. i just cant stop thinking the worst. i cant eat, sleep, or concentrate on anything, and i am crying almost every hour about the possibility of becoming seriously unwell. i fear i have left this too late, despite the mole only rising in the past couple of months. 

i am naturally a hypochondriac so i understand that i may be overthinking it, and it could still be something very treatable. i am also aware of how i haven’t even had a diagnosis yet, but i always catastrophise about these things. i am only twenty and studying at university, and completely terrified about my life being altered by a small mole.

would anyone have any reassuring similar stories to share? i am sorry if this is so insensitive without a diagnosis, i just don’t know where else to turn.