I am in a very similar boat.
I too tanned indoors when Inwas younger and wish I could go back and change my stupid 22 year old decisions… although I did not know about melanoma and tanning beds at that point.
I had a mild atypical mole completely removed 7 years ago and all was OK. Until 6 months I had what looked like a mosquito bite biopsed (Dr said was doing biopsy to calm me) because it was nothing.. turned out moderate to severe. The day I had the excision I had her do a check and biopse 2 more that turned out mil and mild-moderate.
They moderate-severe has really hit me hard. I’m 35 with two small kids and feel melanoma is coming to haunt me because of my indoor tanning days. I have cried for days nonstop and now can’t stop obsessing about moles. I even decided not to have the third baby I wanted so badly just in case this moderate-severe could have been an early melanoma.
My husband has also had 1 mild and 1 mild-moderate removed but he has over 100 moles all look weird to the untrained eye… he never tanned in or out… so I think you might be in the same category as him having so many moles… me in the other hand I have like max 30 moles in my body and 70% of them look like freckles so this whole atypica situation is my fault 100%.
I am trying to stay proactive and see a derm every 3 months for now… will change to 6 when given OK. And also Like you changed to another derm since the first one didn’t use Now I visit a melanoma specialist (not oncologist) so I can be more at ease that I’d indeed I get melanoma I have a better chance of finding it early.
