@nancyj21 Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. I am glad to hear your melanoma was finally addressed. That was my situation, also, with melanoma. Three doctors dismissed it as a "rash", before I paid out-of-pocket for a biopsy. It was amelanotic, meaning no discernible color, which is not a common finding. I now sport a 32-stitch scar on my right forearm from the surgery, that was in 2008.
Ginger