On 19/08/2006, at 9:46, James O'Quinn wrote:

> The only remarkable thing in her medical history
> other than her previous alopecia episodes
> are a large number of moles she developed
> during her pregnancies...
>
> I know skin tags and the like can be a normal
> part of pregnancy but she describes going from
> having 5 on her chest to well over a hundred...

Are these pigmented flat moles, or skin tags? Skin tags can be a  
marker for Type II diabetes. Much more rarely, it can be linked to  
acromegaly. It makes me wonder whether a good internal physician  
should be consulted to try to pull the whole story together.

Lara Hopkins

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