Skin Tags

**Stella** · 04-09-14, 16:46

Originally Posted by CurvaceousKate

You can go to your regular Doctor and they will literally cut them off for you. Apparently they are created through abrasion, so likely it is your shirt collar that has put them there and it will continue to rub them, so they are better off.

Actually you can do it yourself or get a friend to do it. You need a very fine surgical knife (brand new out the packet) and a good friend to do it, unless you're very brave and a Mr Bump plaster. It will heal very quickly.

Kate it's not something that a friend and a good surgical knife can solve. It's a really really bad advice!

I have few not big ones but I'm going to check ups regularly and until my doctor won't tell me /skin cancer risk/ i won't remove it, not it's not annoying least not for me!!

**Klittyliker** · 04-09-14, 16:57

Originally Posted by Stella

Kate it's not something that a friend and a good surgical knife can solve. It's a really really bad advice!

I have few not big ones but I'm going to check ups regularly and until my doctor won't tell me /skin cancer risk/ i won't remove it, not it's not annoying least not for me!!

Hi Stella.
I just want to say that I replied to Kates original post just to get her opinion on this issue as I have a number of skin tags myself.

While I welcome her reply and advice I do not think I will be removing my skin tags myself any time soon and will certainly get medical advice on the issue beforehand.
I believe Kate was trying to be genuinely helpful here while also being fully aware that you would need to be a complete lunatic to act on medical advice posted on a forum such as this.

**Naughtynatalie** · 04-09-14, 16:58

I had a skin tag under my arm years ago, mentioned it to a nurse when having a check up & she froze it off in a matter of seconds, no pain or scar.

**justfrank44** · 04-09-14, 17:57

Originally Posted by HairyPotter

I have one on top of my bum crack, does cause me some discomfort lately especially when sitting so like to keep active when i can.
I'm thinking of getting it removed anyway as bit nervous of asking the Escort to rim me when its there

Sounds more like piles

**sharkskin** · 04-09-14, 20:15

I had one on my shoulder - close to my neck. It was one of the ones with a little ball of fatty tissue on the end. I went to a doc in England and they tied off the stalk and at the same time snipped the end off to send away for biopsy. Never heard back from them and the stalk just dried up and broke off.

A few years later, I had another under my right armpit. Tricky place for a DIY session but I got it.

My equipment list was a key, a roll of duct tape, a pair of electrician's wire cutters and five bottles of Stella - I was living in Belgium so it was the easy choice.

I drank the beer to get me in the mood and used the duct tape to attach the key to the end of the tag. The weight of the key was just right to stretch the tag out so that I could snip it off with the cutters. I used the dregs in the empty Stella bottles to sterilise the cut and all was good.

Worked well really. Of course nowadays, I would have set up a camera and had the whole show on you tube!

**sharkskin** · 04-09-14, 20:23

I have one on my inner thigh, right at the top close to my ball sack.

It is one of the ones with a little ball of fatty tissue on the end.

I was thinking of going to a tattoo parlour and asking if they could do a little smiley face on it.

**RobertTVlover** · 04-09-14, 20:36

Had one but went to the doctor and had it removed. Hopefully I'll have no more.

**johnb59** · 04-09-14, 21:25

I've had this enormous skin tag for the last 28 years but I'm so used to it now that I totally ignore its presence, but it bleeds me every Friday! And I even have a name for it? But I couldn't cut it with a surgical knife?.As it will have me up for physical assault? Oh you haven't met the wife have you?

**johnb59** · 04-09-14, 21:52

Originally Posted by CurvaceousKate

You can go to your regular Doctor and they will literally cut them off for you. Apparently they are created through abrasion, so likely it is your shirt collar that has put them there and it will continue to rub them, so they are better off.

Actually you can do it yourself or get a friend to do it. You need a very fine surgical knife (brand new out the packet) and a good friend to do it, unless you're very brave and a Mr Bump plaster. It will heal very quickly.

Kate I'm starting too get a bit worried about you? First with those surgical gloves and now surgical knife I'm not sure what to expect now?lol

**Curvaceous Kate** · 04-09-14, 21:58

You guys crack me up, so funny

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