Is It a Mole, Birthmark, Or Something Completely Different? Posted: 09-18-07 22:16pm
A little background information...
My boyfriend is 20 years old,
half-Caucasian and half-Korean, and has
Crohn's Disease (an autoimmune disease
affecting the large intestine). Before
diagnosis in 2005 he was 6'0" and roughly
170 pounds. Now, 2 years later, he is 6'0"
and somewhere between 135-140 pounds, so
just slightly underweight.
Since he was quite young he had what we
thought was a birthmark on the top of his
left wrist that he jokingly called his
"coffee stain". It is somewhere between
the side of a nickel and the size of a
dime, smooth, even colored, symmetrical,
hair grows out of it (normal hair like on
the rest of his arm) and it is tan in
color (kind of the color of milky coffee).
Before he lost weight, it was perfectly
even with the rest of his arm/skin. Now
that he has lost weight, he's noticed that
it is raised (especially when he bends his
wrist) but it is still smooth texture wise
and has not changed diameter or color.
He has other moles that need to be checked
out (much smaller ones on his back/chest)
that seem to have grown or changed color.
He has a Doctor's appointment this Monday
(8/24) with a dermatologist, but we have
been reading on the internet about
possibilities and are officially, for lack
of a better term, freaked out.
