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If I pick off a raised freckle, will it come back?
I used to have this raised freckle in the middle of my stomach. I picked it off all the way but now there is a big round scab instead. Once the scab goes away will there be regular skin or will the freckle come back?
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As already said, there's no way to really know, only a dermatologist who has a degree for learning how to diagnose skin conditions can be fully trusted to help you. Can't say what will happen after the scab. I did that once to a raised bumnp freckle at the top of my arm as a kid. It looked like a darker area after and flat but you could feel the texture was different. As already said, if its something new that is growing, changing color, most likely something for Dr to check if there are cancer cells present of not. They always look like birthmarks to me. Brother had one behind ear that wasn't there before, but it wasn't spreading or growning outwardly, just inwarkly. THe point here is bumps and lumps and an area that won't heal and keeps scabbing over but becoming raw again without your interferance. I am older and have found that in my family, there runs skin conditions. Hardened raised skin that is not cancerous, but look like moles. I had one from birth, my Mom had one over her eyebrow it made the brow sag down and she had it surgically removeed. Then there are soft fleshy bits of skin a Dr. will tell you are skin tags. You need to know first from a Dr. that something is a skin tag and they can remove it or instruct you what to do to remove it. I had an adult frriend in office who had new ones keep growing, mostly on her chest and they would get caught on jewelry and rip and hurt. She was going in 2 or 3 times a year for that, no joke. The Dr knew it must be getting expensive for her and told her what she could do herself to get rid of. There are plenty of nerve ending and blook flow to these that keep them alive. I had a big one of these too. So in asking Dr. if I could do same as my friend, they said yes, but its the long way and can be a lot more uncomfortable for longer in that process. You have to get Drs permission for this because it won't help if there are bad cells involved that are under the skin, and it can keep spreading. So all I had to do was tie thread around it a little bit tight, tie it and leave it until it got comfortable again, a few days later, then tighten it a fraction more, and so on until it is cinched as tight as possible around the base. This process cuts off blood supply and it dies and eventually falls off on its own. There are freckles and other flat birthmarks. And then also in my family runs something called Hemangioma. It is rare but not harmful and it is genetically passed on sometimes skipping a generation or staring as a baby or getting it as an older person. I never had it til now. Didn't when I had my third child who within weeks grew bright red bumps on her head and face. One was at the hairline about half the size of a dime, another under right eye, a tiny one on side of nose and one at back of head. So I'll tell you in case this is what you see on yourself, what to do. You do nothing to do. Think of it like a weakness in a garden hose where the rubber bulges at one point but doesn't break only in this case its little veins that form a bulge. And since the vein is thinner due to stretching and bulging, the blood inside it is what makes it so bright red. I once heard a lady screaming and turned around to see she was pointing at me. She was a distance away and thought the bright red spot was my baby bleeding from her head. Because these are veins and carry blood, you leave them alone and do nothing to them. If gotton as a baby, those will fade away bit some of the loose skin in that area will remain. If you get it as an older adult, as I have, chances are they will remain red til the day I die. Lastly, there are flat brown spots that can show up on older peoples skin and you've probably seen them on really old people as tons of brown about half the size of a dime again. They appear slowly and are not harmful. I did get one appear on a fore arm when I was in my early forties, still raising kids and so I didn't connect it with liverspots as they are called. Got a mosquito bite next to it and scratched and scratched, even in my sleep and discovered I had scratched the skin off of liver spot as well. When it healed, the area where the spot used to be totally lacked any pigment. I am a white person but the skin is normally some sort of peachy color. this healed spot was white like snow and in decades, has never regained any color. It would not be a good idea to ever remove lots of these as you;d be unprotected against the sun without melatonin in the skin where a liver spot used to be. So with all I've shared, I hope you see the importance of reporting any skin changes or things you are tired of seeing from childhood and asking to get these skin conditinsd evaluated by a skin doctor before deciding to do something to it yourself.
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I'm not sure. That may not be the answer you are looking for but there's another issue you need to look into. Any time there is a raised mole, freckle or bump that didn't exist before but does now you ought to point it out to a doctor.
Have a dermatologist look at it because it could be a problem that isn't normal and needs to be looked at. I'm not out to scare you but if you have something raised like that and if it turns color or looks bigger than it's not right for it to be on your body.
You may have picked off part of it and it could have a scab or return to looking the exact same way as before and be a problem. It may well be benign but if it continues to look the same ask a doctor about it and whether or not it's just a freckle. Feckles and moles tend to be flat and not raised. You can get them on any body part. Hopefully, that's all you are dealing with.
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