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

c3ns0r3dn4m3 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 1:41

:| That's .. attractive. how'd you get it...? :P FYL.

monkeyz0r 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 15:28

your username wins

InkGothical 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 1:42

lies. this is so fake. it's creative but the idea that no one else would know this is redicilous.

evanwilliams 4

Thursday 2 July 2009 1:46

The fact that you don't know how to spell 'ridiculous' is also pretty ridiculous.

Carleybby 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 1:43

I'm hoping now there is some kind of cure, maybe you can get rid of it ^^

spiffles 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 1:44

On the bright side, now she can get rid of it?

eehizle 0

Thursday 15 July 2010 21:26

exactly, how is this an fml? she can kill it. what's the issue here?

DWordHead16 19

Friday 11 October 2013 2:28

I know this is old but what the ****? I'm just wondering how you don't see the FML. she had a fungus on her her whole life, and no previous doctors knew this! She could've gotten rid of it awhile ago but no one knew. Plus she couldn't accept her body due to it.

KillinRage 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 1:45

How did she not notice it 'growing'?

tanners 0

Thursday 2 July 2009 2:54

i completely agree. you would think she would notice it growing?

Finnboghi 0

Friday 3 July 2009 0:52

Ninja'd. Birthmarks don't get bigger. And aren't fuzzy.

nyuukou 0

Thursday 17 September 2009 22:05

Not all fungi are fuzzy. The sort that grow on skin certainly aren't; at least, not any level where you're going to be able to see and feel it unaided. Also, if it's growing as she's growing, then she probably never thought anything of it. I have an actual birthmark that got larger as I grew up, because it's a patch of discoloured skin. Discoloured skin grows at the same rate as normal skin. Thus, I wouldn't think anything of it getting larger, because it's growing at the same rate I am. So, if the fungus was growing slowly enough that it was simply keeping up with her rate of growth... yeah. Birthmark.