Everyone has had acne sometime in their life, but how do we know acne from something more serious, Recently one of the contributors of shipacne had just that, a carcinoma disguised as what he thought was a pimple. The other day Glenn came to work with about a two inch scar on his neck with approximately nine stitches, and I was in shock and had asked what happened.
Heres the story, about seven months ago he had what looked like a small pimple on his neck, and he popped it, and of course it reacted like a normal zit popping out that nasty stuff, and that was it, but later it continued to gradually grow, Glenn said that after looking at it carefully, he noticed a couple of hairs in the vicinity and figured it was just an ingrown hair, so he plucked the two hairs and of course the swelling went down back to a normal size but it did not decrease.
After a while the pimple started to look more like a sore, it gradually grew slowly , but not to anything abnormal, it finally took Glenn seven months and he decided to go see a dermatologist, and of course the dermatologist asked why he had not gone to see him sooner, and of course Glenn said… well it acted and seemed like it was just a pimple, but it wasn’t , it was the beginning of a pre-cancerous growth, the surgery was performed and the growth removed and the test results of the biopsy fortunately turned out to be negative.
So if you have some kind of persistent growth that looks like a pimple make sure you check it out, it could be something more serious.
