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Gus May 2018 8:27pm, 21 May 2018 1,523 posts	0 Gus I thought I was very careful with the sunscreen while away last week but my earlobes were peeling yesterday.
Columba May 2018 9:10pm, 21 May 2018 15,632 posts	0 Columba Just back from googling actinic keratoses, and wondering how, if you have psoriasis (bruv does) you can distinguish between the two conditions.
Velociraptor May 2018 9:57pm, 21 May 2018 38,311 posts	0 Velociraptor They're quite different, Columba
Markymarkmark May 2018 10:30pm, 21 May 2018 6,951 posts	0 Markymarkmark The pictures on t'internet look suitably gross, V'rap. Enough to make me wear suncream..... Or to keep wearing my hat/cap/buff. And concentrate the suncream on my ears and neck!
steve45 May 2018 1:39pm, 22 May 2018 2,572 posts	0 steve45 ..um..bowel screening began in Wales in 2008. Good tips about ears and sun screen here..thanks..never thought about it and my ears poke out too much and must attract the sunrays.! Was out in the sun for two hours this morning so from now on I'll be careful. It's important to treat actinic keratoses I believe or it can develop into something more sinsister. I'm still using stuff prescribed on two small areas on my head..bloody nuisance.
Columba May 2018 6:58pm, 22 May 2018 15,636 posts	0 Columba In 2008 I was 64, which perhaps accounts for my thinking the screening started at 65. V'rap, the description of actinic whatsit which I found said it might look like almost anything and be almost any size; so I thought in that case it could look like a patch of psoriasis.
Runningfoxx May 2018 8:04pm, 22 May 2018 32 posts	0 Runningfoxx I had an operation on April 4th to remove a basal cell carcinoma from my forehead using just a local anesthetic. It was only a tiny spot but its roots, feeding on blood vessels, seemed to stretch all over the place. It was like a bloomin' octopus. All the blood vessels had to be cauterised so there was a terrible smell of burning flesh as I laid there chatting to the surgeon. I was sent home immediately after it without as much as an aspirin. When the local anaesthetic wore off the pain from the cauterised blood vessels was the worst I've ever experienced. It took me until my birthday on May 6th before I began running again. There's a mention of it, and photographs, in my blog for April 18th: oldrunningfox.blogspot.co.uk
DocMoye May 2018 1:05pm, 23 May 2018 22,190 posts	0 DocMoye ive just received a health check invite from my GP, (but the nurse doesnt think i should be allowed a needle to take the blood for the fasting cholesterol.....hubby is an anaesthetist and we have always done each others blood tests to save appointments)
hillstrider May 2018 4:19pm, 23 May 2018 5,019 posts	0 hillstrider Congratulations on your 86th Birthday Runningfox, you are an example to us all, still running and maintaining an active lifestyle. Had a white tooth filling this afternoon, which set me back £73.60, and this was with a £15 reduction under my dental plan. This was classified as emergency treatment, as it wasn't undertaken during my 6 monthly checkup.
Runningfoxx May 2018 4:34pm, 23 May 2018 33 posts	0 Runningfoxx Thanks for your good wishes for my birthday Hillstrider. It's my younger partner that keeps me going! Co-incidentally, I went for a routine check-up this morning and came away with a filling. I daren't tell you how much it 'didn't' cost.....