
I doubt we have any doctors in the house, but I'm pretty freaked out. I've got some sort of... abscess or something on the right side of my face. I can't really tell what it is because it's under a freckle. And it hurts if I touch it. (And sometimes it's very slightly sore if even if I don't touch it because I've been obsessively messing with it all day.) But it's not like a horrible, agonizing pain. It's just slightly sore, I guess. It's not a weird color or shape. Hell, it's not even red or irritated-looking. It doesn't look like any pictures of skin cancer or things like that that I've seen. (I don't see how I would have such a thing, anyway, because I don't get nearly enough sun exposure...) It just looks like an average freckle, really, except it's ever-so-slightly raised. It does not bleed or ooze or anything like that.
I showed my dad, and he said that if it doesn't stop being weird in a few days, I should go to the doctor's. I don't think I can wait "a few days," though, because it's kind of freaking me out. D: But I can't just go because it costs money, and it would probably turn out to be something totally stupid like a pimple after having my dad pay all that money. (Which is absolutely retarded, but that's another rant for another time.) Or, of course, I could NOT go and have it turn out to be some fatal disease that causes me to die an agonizingly painful death...
I really need to just stop thinking about it, but I can't. x_x What should I do with it?
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Naturally, you can't be
Naturally, you can't be diagnosed over the internet, but it sounds to me like a cyst. They can go away on their own or you can get them injected. It might also just be a mole. Hard to say. I think you should probably take your dad's advice and just watch it for a few days.
I'd say watch it for a few
I'd say watch it for a few days and if it doesn't get better go to the doctor anyway. So it may turn out to be nothing, oh well. But what if you didn't go and it ended up being something? If I were you I'd go and rather get the news it was nothing.
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs
Hmm...
Your doctor might know what it is, but you'll probably get referred to a dermatologist.
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sometimes...
...pimples are a bit itchy/sensitive when they're first forming. At least that's what happens to me. But if that's what it is it should develop into something recognizably pimple-like after about a day. If it doesn't, it's probably something else.
Your dad is probably right — take a deep breath and wait a couple of days, then go to the doctor if it's not getting better.
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that's what i was gonna say...
maybe it's just a pimple. as Splash said though, if it is a pimple you'd know in a couple days. so i'll stick with everyone's advice of just waiting a bit and seeing what happens.
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my sister gets cysts on the side of her face alot. it could be from an infected sweat gland if its on the side of your face close to your ear.
if it is that the worse that will happen is it will be drained then you'll need your dad to pack some stuff in it. buttt the dr will explane that.
i hope all goes well
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