Worried, are those follicles not normal?

jimz

I found a picture in a dermatology PDF where they had all kinds of pictures of skin diseases and now I'm worried cause I have exactly the same spots on my shaft skin! Are these not normal? I thought everybody has them.They are called Tyson's spots.http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/804/60616855.jpg/

readytogo

The are perfectly normal. You have them elsewhere on your body as well. They are just more noticeable on the genitals because the skin is thinner.

jimz

But then why are they listed among skin diseases if they are normal? In this pdf file there were only scary pictures of all kinds of skin diseases.

Ineligible

They should not be listed as skin diseases, as they are perfectly normal.Strictly speaking, that picture is not of Tyson's spots, because Tyson's are a variant type of sebaceous gland found on mucous membranes such as the glans or lips. That picture (which is obviously making a small joke) is actually of normal sebaceous glands, which may be called Fordyce's spots.See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordyce's_spot

jimz

does this mean that real tyson's spots are a disease? does mike tyson have a disease?

what's sick is that they had pics of conditions in there which looked totally harmless and you could almost see nothing and yet they were dangerous skin diseases with systemic consequences. i'm afraid if you had something rare that a normal dermatologist might not even recognize it because he lacks the experience.

sdp

Tysons spots are not a disease

Ineligible

It's not a good life worrying all the time, needlessly, that you might have some disease. That would be much worse than the average person's very small risk of missing something through not bothering.

jimz

But it's just so scary that things which look harmless could be dangerous. Most normal dermatologists would not even recognize the rare stuff if they saw it. Then how can you feel safe?

Ineligible

Feeling safe is a matter of feelings. Being reasonably safe will not make you feel safe if you are an anxious person, because there is always something you can worry about.