Hi br70,

Welcome to Cancer Chat. I'm sorry to hear of your situation and I can understand this must be worrying. Firstly I hope it's not too long to wait for your appointment. If you have any questions about the referral and potential next steps, perhaps you can speak to your doctor to try to get some further information.

I'm glad to hear you've found the forum a help so far. Hopefully you'll receive further replies soon, but if not then you could perhaps try searching the forum for other potentially relevant discussions.I can see you've already spoken to others which is great.

I know it's easier said than done, but try not to dwell on the what ifs too much. Take things a day at a time while you wait, and then hopefully you'll get the answers you need soon.

Wishing you all the best,

Ben
Cancer Chat Moderator

Hi,

Sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with BCC.  I have just had one removed from my nose and, like you, when I first found out, I found myself looking at all the most serious case scenarios on Google and imagining the worst. I can also relate to looking at every spot, pimple and mark, questioning whether it is new, has changed or could be another BCC - I think that is probably quite a normal reaction to something like this and will probably go on for some time.  I can only say, from my experience, that the whole thing was nowhere near as bad as I had imagined it would be and 6 weeks on, the scar is healing well.  For me, the waiting and imagining what it would be like afterwards was the worst bit of it all.  I hope that you can get some reassurance at your next appointment and, as you've probably worked out, google is not that helpful in these situations so probably best to avoid it if you can.  Best of luck.

Thank you so much Ben, really appreciate you taking the time to write.

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to send that as whilst I am sorry to hear you have had the same diagnosis, it is a real comfort to hear from someone who had the same fears, does the same constant checking and also went in to dark places thanks to Google before your surgery but that it wasn't anywhere near as bad as you anticipated or thought it would be and truly hope it is the same for me also. Really glad to hear you are healing well and in a better place now and good luck with your continued recovery and would be nice to hear from you from time to time as to how you are progressing/healing.

I also found these forums really helpful in the time between diagnosis and surgery so I am glad that you are feeling reassured. There are so many people going through some really difficult situations but will take the time to reassure you and even just reading about other people's experiences can be helpful when trying to process everything.

Best of luck.

Hi my wife had what we thought was a cold sore on her top lip we kept treating it with usual things and it went down then returned couple of times so went to dr surgery straight away he diagnosed cancer (BCC) .we went to hospital for specalist and he offered to remove it there and then  my wife said yes so they got things ready and a nurse came in my wife had some injections to deaden area and it was cut out,(it had gone through the lip) .it was all cut out and stitched up and been fine since that was about 10 years ago.just a very fine scar hard to see unless you know what to look for.

They let me sit there and watch, glad I didn't faint.

Billy