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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have moles all over and I’ve never worried about them. [/quote]

Same. If I had all my moles removed I'd have had like 100 skin excisions by now. Perhaps more.

I see a dermatologist regularly and we keep track of any "concerning" moles and have those excised and biopsied if necessary. But the handful of moles on my face have not changed in size or appearance since I was a child so I've never bothered. I personally like how they look and it's my face.

I once had a woman freak out over a mole on my shoulder because it's "irregularly" shaped and she was lecturing me about how I needed to get it checked and it was "disgusting." It's not even a large mole -- just a little odd shaped instead of perfectly round. I asked my derm about it at my next appointment and she was like "no I don't worry about that one -- it's small and has normal color and has never grown. But this woman was throwing a fit about it.

This is very much where this is just about some of you having weird OCD tendencies and needing to weight in on other people's bodies and appearance. Being "grossed out" by something as normal and commonplace as a mole is a reflection of your own psychological issues. See a therapist.[/quote]

The one on my hand (go away, annoying mole n@zi) is looked at by every single doctor I see because it has multiple weird characteristics - not symmetrical, not all one color, that kind of thing. But I have had it for my entire life and it has NEVER changed. [b]And when I did attempt to get it removed, the plastic surgeon told me the scar would be bigger because of location/proximity to bone[/b].

Oddly, the type of mole (blue nevi) is more common in Asian populations and I am as white as white can be.

People need to mind their business. I mean, I wouldn't be mad if someone said it was odd and I should get it checked. Usually, I just tell them "yes, I have had it looked at already and it's nothing"[/quote]

This is why I've never had any of my (small and I think cute) facial moles removed. I do have a scar from a mole I had removed from my torso years ago. Not a big deal and it was a mole that was growing and concerned my doctor so worth the scar to remove just in case. But I'd much rather have a mole on my face than a scar from where it was removed.

People who freak out about moles tend to have anxiety and OCD. They need to look inward. I just have a little brown mole on my cheek -- you have a black spot on your personality. Only one of those things is malignant.[/quote]

I had a shave excision. I can't even find the scar.[/quote]

Not all moles can be removed with a shave excision. I've had to have two moles removed by plastic surgeons because my derm didn't feel comfortable removing in office. And one of those even still left a scar because of the location (thanks to the surgeon it was a small and tidy scar but it's still noticeable 10+ years later).

It sounds like a lot of people on this thread don't really know a lot about moles or mole removal. Yet you feel comfortable telling other peopel what to do about something on their body that has nothing to do with you. Interseting.[/quote]

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