Today, I went to the doctor for a sports physical. I've had a giant, dark birthmark on my left ribcage that I've hated most of my life. Recently I've learned to embrace it and show it off by wearing bikinis. My doctor saw it and told me it's a fungus that's been spreading on my side all my life. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I noticed a random dark spot on my skin around my groin area. Fearing that it was possibly melanoma, even though I don't really go outside a lot, I made a mad dash to the doctor. Apparently it's just a fucked-up stretch mark, and is perfectly normal. Nice thing to have a panic attack over. Good job, brain. FML
Today, I finally went to the doctor's office to have a small patch of acne on my stomach looked at. Since it was in an almost perfect circle and abnormally sensitive, I was worried it could be ringworm or some other sort of skin infection. It turned out to be an infection alright. Herpes. FML
Today, I went to the doctor's because I could feel something solid in my breasts, and I wanted to get it checked, just to be safe. Turns out it was my ribs. Oops. FML
Today, I told the doctor that one of my ribs sticks out farther than the other. When I lifted my shirt to show him, he immediately laughed and said, "Whoa, that's not subtle is it!" As if I wasn't already insecure about it. FML
Today, I realized the birthmark I have on my chest isn't a birthmark at all; it's a third nipple. FML
Today, I had to finally come to terms with the fact that I am obese when the doctor told me that my weird smell was not an infection but mold growing between my fat rolls. FML
Today, I went to the doctor to ask what the weird white lump was on my back, and if it was cancer. He told me it was the biggest pimple he'd ever seen. FML
Today, I panicked when I saw a spider on my shoulder from the corner of my eye. It was a birthmark. The same one that has been there for the last 23 years. FML
Today, I went to the Doctor's for a mole my husband had said was, "growing and changing color". It turned out to be a wood tick. My husband knew, but said it was too "icky" to take off himself. FML
Today, and for the past few years, I've had a mysterious lump on my pinky finger that will not go away. Every doctor I've gone to has absolutely no idea what it is, or why it even showed up. I'm starting to think that I wouldn't like to find out what it is, if even a medical professional can't say for sure. FML
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manoverboard 0
Why didn't any other doctors notice this?
lukewarmocha 0
:( doctors should have caught it before
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c3ns0r3dn4m3 0
:| That's .. attractive. how'd you get it...? :P FYL.
monkeyz0r 0
your username wins
InkGothical 0
lies. this is so fake. it's creative but the idea that no one else would know this is redicilous.
evanwilliams 4
The fact that you don't know how to spell 'ridiculous' is also pretty ridiculous.
Carleybby 0
I'm hoping now there is some kind of cure, maybe you can get rid of it ^^
spiffles 0
On the bright side, now she can get rid of it?
eehizle 0
exactly, how is this an fml? she can kill it. what's the issue here?
DWordHead16 19
I know this is old but what the ****? I'm just wondering how you don't see the FML. she had a fungus on her her whole life, and no previous doctors knew this! She could've gotten rid of it awhile ago but no one knew. Plus she couldn't accept her body due to it.
KillinRage 0
How did she not notice it 'growing'?
tanners 0
i completely agree. you would think she would notice it growing?
Finnboghi 0
Ninja'd. Birthmarks don't get bigger. And aren't fuzzy.
nyuukou 0
Not all fungi are fuzzy. The sort that grow on skin certainly aren't; at least, not any level where you're going to be able to see and feel it unaided. Also, if it's growing as she's growing, then she probably never thought anything of it. I have an actual birthmark that got larger as I grew up, because it's a patch of discoloured skin. Discoloured skin grows at the same rate as normal skin. Thus, I wouldn't think anything of it getting larger, because it's growing at the same rate I am. So, if the fungus was growing slowly enough that it was simply keeping up with her rate of growth... yeah. Birthmark.
lexxiii 17
Agree with #1.
1234five 0
Yummm
shirvon100 0
oh damn aint tht a trick
drinkupgorgeous 0
Aww. Good for you for having the confidence and stuff, but FYL for it being a fungus, which would eventually take over your whole body.
crzymonkeyxo 0
That happened to me, cept it was directly below my breast so it was covered up by my bra, which explains why doctors may not have noticed it
courtney47 3
can she get rid of it?