Been noticing a mole/freckle change colour over a little while and is now completely white and crusty with a pale red surround................wondering if I would be wasting a Doctors time at our local surgery? Any Omega skin specialists about?
My money is on it being psoriasis, but do get it checked. I had a pre cancerous blemish chopped out of my forearm about eight months ago. It's no big deal if you get it sorted quickly. Nice watch by the way! Just had a thought. Maybe your allergic to Longines, I could take it off your hands if that's the case.
Yes, I'll go down and see when they can see me. I'm very conscious of wasting their time but maybe in this instance they will have to suffer that! Cheers!
staphylococcus longinensis , but I think you got it in time. 1. Remove and discard any Longines watches. 2. Soak body up to your neck in: 3. Rub affected area with (1 liter size be be required): 5. Go out and buy yourself a nice Omega watch.
Get a referral from your GP to a dermatologist. Living here in the tropics where the sun will rip your hide right off your bones, I go every three months. Doctor usually takes off a couple of suspicious spots for a biopsy. 99% of the time it's nothing. It's always that 1% that you need to worry about. gatorcpa
Just back from the Doctors............definitely a bad case of Longineitious The watch has been surgically removed and courtesy of the good old British NHS service an Omega has been strapped on with strict instructions of bed rest for at least 12 hours. Apparently this happens when one strays off the Omega path. Should be posting a picture tomorrow morning to show if any real change....... A lesson to us all I think.
17 hours later............ Never underestimate the healing properties of Omega. These National Health Service Constellations are dammed good
Sorry, but I disagree. In my professional experience (@LouS and @MMMD - what does that translate to in number of cases again?) I'd say that's quartzitosis. Lesions like that are a severe reaction to strapping a battery powered computer chip that tells time to your wrist. The incubation period can be hours, weeks, or even months. It's just coincidence that you first noticed it while wearing a Longines - obviously because you're so smitten with the excellence of Longines products that you saw it because you were staring at your wrist so long & often. I prescribe two vintage mechanical watch purchases and a scan of eBay each morning for a week. I'll send you my bill.
One case. The gag goes like this: "In my experience..." = one case "In my series of cases..." = two cases "in case after case after case..." = three cases
I think when I do eventually get your bill for help over the last couple of years, I'll have to sell that Longines to pay it......
All right, so you have heard all these "drive by" opinions, maybe let a real doc have a look at it... Hmm, pinkish halo, bright and shiny in pictures, small and near the wrist. Yep, seen this before... You can come out of the closet now...HER closet, and give her back the watch...
I am a physician. I can't tell if you saw a doctor or not after the jovial posts. It appears to me that this lesion is an actinic keratosis and needs some freezing (cryotherapy)to burn this out and let healthy skin grow back in. This is a result of sun damage and what appears to be your Scotish-Irish heritage skin type. This is a "pre-cancer" and can develop into skin cancer if left unattended. Cheers
Go got the dermatologist and they will freeze it off. Insurance covers it . I just had two removed from my calfs