Health: News to me

News to me

By Anonymous - 01/07/2009 20:35 - United States

Today, I went to the doctor for a sports physical. I've had a giant, dark birthmark on my left ribcage that I've hated most of my life. Recently I've learned to embrace it and show it off by wearing bikinis. My doctor saw it and told me it's a fungus that's been spreading on my side all my life. FML

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By Fuck anxiety - 19/05/2024 02:00 - United States - Steele

Today, I noticed a random dark spot on my skin around my groin area. Fearing that it was possibly melanoma, even though I don't really go outside a lot, I made a mad dash to the doctor. Apparently it's just a fucked-up stretch mark, and is perfectly normal. Nice thing to have a panic attack over. Good job, brain. FML

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By ringrash - 14/01/2016 06:17 - United States - Pittsburgh

Today, I finally went to the doctor's office to have a small patch of acne on my stomach looked at. Since it was in an almost perfect circle and abnormally sensitive, I was worried it could be ringworm or some other sort of skin infection. It turned out to be an infection alright. Herpes. FML

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By Lara - 08/01/2016 11:28 - Germany - Bremen

Today, I went to the doctor's because I could feel something solid in my breasts, and I wanted to get it checked, just to be safe. Turns out it was my ribs. Oops. FML

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By justmyluck5150 - 17/10/2016 17:58 - United States

Today, I told the doctor that one of my ribs sticks out farther than the other. When I lifted my shirt to show him, he immediately laughed and said, "Whoa, that's not subtle is it!" As if I wasn't already insecure about it. FML

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By triplenipple - 10/01/2011 20:35 - Sweden

Today, I realized the birthmark I have on my chest isn't a birthmark at all; it's a third nipple. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/09/2012 14:23 - Canada

Today, I had to finally come to terms with the fact that I am obese when the doctor told me that my weird smell was not an infection but mold growing between my fat rolls. FML

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Hypochondriac

By Stepheroni - This FML is from back in 2017 but it's good stuff

Today, I went to the doctor to ask what the weird white lump was on my back, and if it was cancer. He told me it was the biggest pimple he'd ever seen. FML

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By lct722 - 16/03/2012 05:54 - Canada

Today, I panicked when I saw a spider on my shoulder from the corner of my eye. It was a birthmark. The same one that has been there for the last 23 years. FML

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By Anonymous - 29/05/2013 04:32 - United States - Sparta

Today, I went to the Doctor's for a mole my husband had said was, "growing and changing color". It turned out to be a wood tick. My husband knew, but said it was too "icky" to take off himself. FML

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Mystery lump

By Pinky Paranoid - 22/10/2022 06:00

Today, and for the past few years, I've had a mysterious lump on my pinky finger that will not go away. Every doctor I've gone to has absolutely no idea what it is, or why it even showed up. I'm starting to think that I wouldn't like to find out what it is, if even a medical professional can't say for sure. FML

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manoverboard 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 1:33

Why didn't any other doctors notice this?

lukewarmocha 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 1:35

:( doctors should have caught it before

Comments

Hurt16 0

Wednesday 25 November 2009 8:13

and to #127 on most African Americans or brown skined ppl lol (yeah we rock) our birth marks are black or it could be a light brown two my brother and I I'm 17 n he's 8 and we have matching birth marks on the back of our head by our hair line u can't really x it unless my brother cuts his hair or if I cut the back of my hair

varkey 7

Sunday 25 April 2010 7:35

that's retarded, physicals are just checkups nothing at all to do with sex... i had one when i was 10, then 15 (maybe before also, but i don't remember that) and i have never had sex. besides, some people never have sex in their lives, how would they detect any problems then?

Melodey 3

Thursday 4 March 2010 14:52

This happened to my sister, she thought it would go away and didn't bother mentioning anything about it until it was covering most of her stomach. Our parents took her to the doctor once they found out, the doctor gave her some kind of medicine/body wash/lotion thing, and it supposedly cleared up in about a week. Its kind of gross but apparently easy to deal with, good luck OP!

docxxx 0

Thursday 8 April 2010 7:13

146 you have shitty doctors. I suggest new ones that do actually care when a patient's heart makes off sounds. Op this sucks, but apparently it isn't life threatening and there's a way to treat it. keep strutting your stuff :) its going to take a long time to get rid of, but you can do it with the right Meds hopefully. I had a really bad case of ringworm one time ( which is a fungus) and it took foreverrrr to get rid of, but it did go away.

chantelfurtado 0

Wednesday 5 May 2010 4:15

how the f*** did that happen???

sublime420 11

Sunday 27 February 2011 2:20

Ew. Pretty inconsiderate for other people. Why would you show that off?

noeyolivia 0

Thursday 17 March 2011 13:09

I'm sorry

NickCassell 2

Thursday 21 April 2011 1:20

Well, if you think about it, that's kinda good. Cuz now it can be removed, right?

MothsWings 4

Saturday 25 June 2011 0:42

I'm sorry. Hopefully they can cure it. And if you are sad because you feel you'll lose some physical individuality if you don't have the birth mark, look into getting a tattoo :)

DomoLaDii 8

Wednesday 9 November 2011 17:11

thats got to suck!

hewro_failure 11

Wednesday 14 March 2012 23:44

Wow talk about your past doctors being incompetent morons and if you were always self-conscious about it even if it was a birth mark you could have still had it removed

XxxT3rr4xxX 25

Wednesday 30 October 2013 11:27

It can't be removed is under the skin so the only thing you can do is gradually lighten your skin with sulfur baths and ensure you kill all the fungus.