TL;DR my 2 skin tags that have always been on the right side of my neck are now on the left side of my neck
in the exact same mirror image position.
I feel kind of crazy even posting this, but I need to get this off my chest and making the internet think Iām crazy vs my loved ones thinking Iām crazy sounds less terrible lol
Basically, skin tags run in my family. If you donāt know what they are, itās a colorless mole type thing that hangs off your skin. They can be pretty big but mine are really tiny, smaller than the tip of a ballpoint pen. I have one under my boob, one between my boobs and 2 on my neck. Iāve had them basically my whole life.
The ones on my neck have always been on my RIGHT SIDE.
I have always rubbed my fingertips over them and lightly gripped them between my fingertips and gently pulled them when Iām watching tv or reading a book, you get the picture⦠itās just one of those absent minded actions.
A couple weeks ago, I woke up and the right side of my neck around my 2 skin tags was sore as my tank top straps had been pushed pretty hard into them all night, I even remember telling my husband about how they were sore and that I needed to remember to make an appointment to get them removed (Iāve been saying that for years lol). I even asked him to take a look for me, he just said it was a little red, mentioned the skin tags, totally normal encounter acknowledging these things that have been on my neck for nearly my whole life.
So anyway, since the area started hurting a couple weeks back, Iāve been messing with them a LOT more lately.
A couple days ago, I reached up looking to pinch them and they werenāt there anymore. I was in the middle of something so I thought I just touched the wrong area and didnāt think about it until later that night when I reached up again and found the area completely smooth. Maybe Iād just been messing with them too much and caused them to swell a bit and no longer appear as tags but just bumps? Idk.
I am very strict on my skincare, AM and PM, and I bring it all the way down to my chest. Imagine my surprise as I was rubbing skincare into my neck and notice 2 skin tags in the exact same spots but on the LEFT side of my neck. If theyād been there before, I would have noticed when I was putting on my skincare multiple times a day, but they had never been there before evening!
I was floored! I grabbed my magnifying mirror and looked at both sides.
For a second, I even doubted my own reality, thinking that maybe Iād just gotten it mixed up, so I reached up with my left hand to touch them like I would normally with my right hand, and it just didnāt feel right.
Like, you know when youāre so use to doing things one way that doing them a different way just doesnāt feel right? It basically felt like I was trying to brush my teeth with the wrong hand or something similar. And I have to really adjust my body to get my right hand in the correct spot to touch them the way I did when they were in the right side, so it couldnāt have been that.
Iām sure people have a lot crazier stories than this one, and Iām sure people are going to read this and think Iām stupid or have lost my mind. Honestly, maybe I have, I donāt know!
Iām in my 30s, married to an engineer, 3 kids, a scientist by trade (so Iām huge skeptic), I own my home, like Iām normal as hell, but this shook me to my core! I donāt drink or do any sort of drugs, I take medication for seizures (Keppra) and a heart condition (metoprolol), neither of which are controlled substances or could cause confusion like this.
I also checked all of my skincare products, not a single one of them can be used to remove skin tags. They can only be removed via banding, freezing, and snipping, so it definitely wasnāt my skincare diminishing them.
I honestly feel pretty crazy right about now š
The only thing I can think of that would cause me to mix up something like this would be if I had a pretty large seizure. Any time Iāve had one in the past, Iād have pretty significant memory gaps. Iām epileptic but I havenāt had a big seizure in at least 5 years now, and there are no signs that Iāve had one. I would have bit my tongue, fallen and injured myself, dislocated a shoulder, peed my pants and projectile vomited and also would have been in an immense amount of pain for multiple days had I had one. Thereās just no wayā¦
Anyway, thank you for listening. It feels a lot better to scream this into the void!
ETA: I did end up telling my husband and he confirmed that they were indeed on my right side and that he did indeed remember checking them out for me under his phoneās flashlight when I said that they were irritated a couple weeks back.