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Subungual Melanoma Tests

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Hi everyone,

I'm new here and just looking for some advice or any experience anyone may have. My husband is having a thumb biopsy this week and had an x ray this morning which we are awaiting the results of. We are both very scared as we had thought he had a fungal infection and much to our suprise were reffered to an oncologist by the dermatologist after 12 months of asking for a referral from the GP to the dermatologist. The oncologist said he has never seen anything like my husbands thumb and it could potentially be subungual melanoma. His thumb has no dark line which I think is distinctive of subungual melanoma but I know it can present itself without this. His thumb nail is extremely deformed, his thumb joint is very swollen and the skin on his thumb is very sore. He is also very tired all of the time and has lost weight. We went to the GP a few months ago for the tiredness and they dismissed it as long covid from when he had covid in December 2020.

Has anyone got any experience with this? It's a very scary time.

Thank you everyone.

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    Hi. I hope things are going well for you and your husband. 
    I'm also in a quandary, having a dark pink stripe under my big toe nail. I've had two melanoma primaries already, and the first one was without pigment, amelanocytic, so I'm being taken seriously and sent for biopsy. 
    I wonder though, whether your experience could help me make sense of the biopsy procedure, and [@AngieT]‍, if you read this, I think you said you know people with SM?

    I've been scheduled for a punch biopsy through the nail bed. I'm troubled by this because it's nowhere near the origin of the discolouration. I think they ought to be biopsying under the cuticle somewhere.  This is borne out by my reading so far.  
    I'd value knowing how other people have been biopsied, please, whether I'm unnecessarily worried about missing the source of the colour and maybe being fibbed off with a false negative!

    thank you

     

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    Hi. I hope things are going well for you and your husband. 
    I'm also in a quandary, having a dark pink stripe under my big toe nail. I've had two melanoma primaries already, and the first one was without pigment, amelanocytic, so I'm being taken seriously and sent for biopsy. 
    I wonder though, whether your experience could help me make sense of the biopsy procedure, and [@AngieT]‍, if you read this, I think you said you know people with SM?

    I've been scheduled for a punch biopsy through the nail bed. I'm troubled by this because it's nowhere near the origin of the discolouration. I think they ought to be biopsying under the cuticle somewhere.  This is borne out by my reading so far.  
    I'd value knowing how other people have been biopsied, please, whether I'm unnecessarily worried about missing the source of the colour and maybe being fibbed off with a false negative!

    thank you

     

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