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Mole biopsy yesterday, 24 weeks pregnant and worried

jer123
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I noticed a freckle I had on my aerola change in the last 8 weeks (indefinitely) and go really dark, it was not completely even shaped but had not changed in shape but only colour.

 

I saw a dermatologist yesterday who was brilliant, she said to me it looked like a mole but wanted me to come back at the end end of the year to compare it and look at it. This sent my anxiety through the roof (in my head I was thinking, why do you want to look at it again? is it not ok? are you not sure?)

she could tell how worried i was, I had already lost sleep and said she would happily remove it to stop me keep looking at it. She removed this using a 4mm punch biopsy. She said she removed 1mm in-depth and the pigmentation was a fair amount maller then the depth she had taken.

 

It has made me so anxious and scared whilst waiting the results of the area, I already have 2 children, and being pregnant my anxiety is so bad. She did say to me she feels it is a pregnancy related change and expects it to come back benign with pathology to back her up. 

 

I guess on reading this, it all look positive from the dermatologists words, but I keep thinking, what if? My Mum pointed out that a dermatologist wouldn't say that if she wasn't fairly confident. I guess I just feel like I need some where to let it all out. I have to wait 2 weeks for the biopsy results.

  • Offline in reply to AngieT

    Hi Angie,

     

    so I was just having a feel to be honest, I was getting abit of pain around my boobs (which I know can be pregnancy related too) but it led me to have a check. So it was noticed after having a prod to get a good feel. 

    I went to day centre GP, and he basically said he thinks it is related to the mole excision. He has given me antibiotics as a precaution for me to take. He could feel 2 enlarged lymph nodes but he did say they wasn't huge but could feel them.

     

    My anxiety has gone through the roof, he said that an ultrasound would only show them enlarged and the likes of mammogram on the breast wouldn't happen being pregnant. He said see how I am next week but he wasn't concerned. He said the results from biopsy should give all the confirmation needed to know nothing terrible is going on which I hope he is right as I've started thinking of things like breast cancer now! He did say to contact dermatology to back him up that an excision could cause the lymph's to react and he was positive on the placement of the excision being connected to what was raised.

     

    Lets hope they go down over a couple of days, and I can calm my anxiety down. I'm going to look at some help for it over the weekend and see what the best thing is, because I'm really not coping with it at the moment at all! 
     

    thanks as always for responding xx

     

  • Offline in reply to jer123

    Hi Jer,

    I’m really sorry to hear you have had a bad couple of days, i’m the same at the moment, good and bad days. It’s great that you were able to see your GP so quick and it definitely sounds reassuring what he has said, so I really hope you can relax a bit and have some better days.

    I had my excision this morning and feeling a bit more positive now that it’s done and I did manage to get a bit more reassurance from the doctor this time that he expects it to come back benign, like yours. 

    2 weeks for results now so fingers crossed in 2 weeks this will all be over for both of us and we can get on with enjoying our pregnancies.

    sending love,

    Em.

     

  • Offline in reply to Em24ma

    Hi Jer, 

     

    Just checking in to see if you have heard anything yet results wise? I haven’t and i’m really struggling the last couple of days. I had processed and accepted the 2 week wait and did relatively ok during that time but now that it’s passed I’m just a mess again, I can’t cope, I just fixated on this date that I thought it would be all over by and now I’m lost. 

     

    Hope you are doing ok.

    Em.

     

  • Offline in reply to Em24ma

    Hi, 

    I just wanted to provide an update for anyone that comes across this in the future.

    My biopsy results finally came back and were completely benign, I feel so incredibly relieved.

    The doctor said at the start that my change was more dramatic than he is used to seeing for pregnancy/hormonal changes (a large mole I had for a while went from flat to significantly raised in a short space of time) which is he wanted to biopsy it.

    So I wanted to mention that mole changes (big or small) during pregnancy should always always be checked out, it’s very likely they will be benign but still worth checking. When I was doing far too much stress googling I learnt that melanoma is one of the most commonly diagnosed cancers during pregnancy. 

    Hopefully Jer has had similar good news.

    Em. 

     

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