Q: AN seborrheic keratoses give you back ache?
My back is covered in it and I’m getting pain from about where my lungs are up to my shoulders.
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A: The answer is absolutely not. Seborrheic keratoses are harmless warty spots that tend to appear during adult life.
Most people get some of them, and we get more as we get older, but they do not cause back pain.
They’re only in the skin and aren’t attached to underlying structures such as muscle or bone.
So, while you may have been developing more seborrheic keratoses at the same time as developing back pain, the two are not connected.
I am assuming they definitely are seborrheic keratoses.
There is another type of skin lesion that could potentially be connected to back pain and these are neurofibromas.
These are a type of benign tumor that you can have inside the body that can press on nerves within the spine but it can also cause skin lesions.
They do look quite different to seborrheic keratosis, but it may be worth having a little look online at neurofibroma images to check that that’s not what you’ve got.
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