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Do I have skin cancer?

submitted by anon to askanon 6 hoursMay 4, 2025 15:29:38 ago (+1/-0)     (askanon)

My skin got badly burnt and have two red spots that look raw after a long day out in the sun. This was like 16 days ago and still look red. It hasn't healed.


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[ - ] anon 2545946 3 points 6 hoursMay 4, 2025 15:33:52 ago (+3/-0)

Aloe vera is your friend. Shocked it hasn't gone to purple yet after 10 days. Take and extra shirt to cover your neck and head with you and wear long sleeves next time. Also wear pants. It took almost 2 years for my husbands back of his legs not to look like cooked meat after not listening to me when doing roof work in a hot climate.

[ - ] anon 3530477 [op] 0 points 6 hoursMay 4, 2025 15:43:07 ago (+0/-0)

I'll get some aloe vera. Am I screwed?

[ - ] anon 2545946 1 point 6 hoursMay 4, 2025 15:47:33 ago (+1/-0)

You shouldn't be.The actual leaf not the stuff in the bottle.

[ - ] Sector2 0 points 39 secondsMay 4, 2025 22:09:03 ago (+0/-0)

Aloe vera Barbadensis Miller is the variety to get.

[ - ] anon 3530477 [op] 0 points 3 hoursMay 4, 2025 18:49:24 ago (+0/-0)

Wait purple? Is it supposed to bruise

[ - ] anon 4117903 3 points 6 hoursMay 4, 2025 15:59:41 ago (+3/-0)

They make a spray at CVS thats for bad burns and its also a pain spray. Its lydocane. It works really good

[ - ] anon 4152589 0 points 3 hoursMay 4, 2025 18:57:47 ago (+0/-0)

Lydocaine is now made of graphene oxide an will give you myocarditis

[ - ] anon 2074076 1 point 6 hoursMay 4, 2025 15:38:47 ago (+1/-0)

Ever hear of "sun poisoning"?...and once you get it the affected area will remain sensitive to the sun forever, but blisters usually last for about 2 weeks...morning sun is healthy, afternoon sun is a killer.

[ - ] Master_Foo 1 point 4 hoursMay 4, 2025 17:42:16 ago (+1/-0)

You have GAIDS.

[ - ] Anus_Expander 0 points 4 hoursMay 4, 2025 17:55:06 ago (+0/-0)

idiot KYS

[ - ] anon 2011496 0 points 2 hoursMay 4, 2025 19:44:02 ago (+0/-0)

If it's just red and sensitive, you're fine. It'll heal eventually. If it's swelling, numb, turning purple or black, or peeling repeatedly with increasingly wet layers, you've got a third degree sunburn and will definitely end up with a big weeping tumor at some point without surgery (and I only recommend surgery when certain death is the alternative.) However third degree sunburns are insanely hard to produce, because unlike with actual heat sources, your cells rapidly mutate and die under intense ultraviolet radiation and form an effective barrier against deeper mutagenic damage. Third degree sunburns are usually found in people who get a severe sunburn, and then proceed to get extreme exposure for days afterwards.

You probably don't have one and have nothing to worry about, unless you did the above.