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lets talk skin tags!

54 replies

candyfluff · 04/06/2009 19:47

ok so i have 4 under each armpit and i want them gone
so now does the cotton thing work?
have any of you tried it
what happens
and is it safe??

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littlelamb · 04/06/2009 19:48

Are you sure they're skin tags?? Ds's molluscum, which started in his armpit, looked just like skin tags before they were diagnosed...

spicemonster · 04/06/2009 19:49

Mine just went away after I had the baby. I think ... well they're not there anymore

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candyfluff · 04/06/2009 19:50

yep deffo tags they are hanging on my a thread and i think it wont take much to get them off
amazingly ive never cut them while shaving

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bronze · 04/06/2009 19:50

DD had one on her cheek that plastics tied off with thread

ChampagneDahling · 04/06/2009 19:50

Go to gp or practice nurse and ask their advice - DH had his taken off by gp - very quick and easy and they can take biopsy if they think they might be dodgy. Play safe.

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candyfluff · 04/06/2009 19:51

wont they just think im being vain ?

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Nyx · 04/06/2009 19:52

Yes, I would check with your GP, I had some removed by mine. He used what looked like a soldering iron or something - burned them off! But it didn't really hurt. I have more now though - I hate them, I keep getting little ones on my neck.

southeastastra · 04/06/2009 19:53

i cut mine off with nail clippers (as i've said on here before )

sfxmum · 04/06/2009 19:54

my gp told me I had to have them removed privately and asked if I would like a referral to a plastic surgeon

littlelamb · 04/06/2009 19:56
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candyfluff · 04/06/2009 19:57

nail clippers !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Mintyy · 04/06/2009 20:01

I went to a skin clinic on Harley Street where they quoted me £900 to remove my skin tags.

So then I went to GP and asked her to refer me to something like a Nuffield Hospital - I was happy to pay - cos I thought it would be cheaper.

She said, don't worry, I can do them for you at one of my minor surgery mornings! So, I had to wait about 6 months, but got them done free .

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candyfluff · 04/06/2009 20:02

just dont think its worth a trip to gp ,anyone used cotton ?

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sfxmum · 04/06/2009 20:08

cotton? please elaborate, last suggestion I had was for fishing line

CandleQueen · 04/06/2009 20:14

I've had some removed at the beauty salon/spa place.
She used an electrolysis type needle, and burnt them through their "neck". The burning causes the tag to drop off after a few days and you shouldn't touch them as they are sterile. I put little plasters over them until they were fully healed.

CandleQueen · 04/06/2009 20:16

It cost about £15 and I had my neck, chest and underarms done. This was about 4 years ago.
Two babies later, I've got more threads, and would go and have them done again.

hester · 04/06/2009 20:19

I used cotton to get rid of one, many eons ago when I was young and bothered about blemishes to my perfection!

It did work!

VoodooApocalypse · 04/06/2009 20:35

I couldnt tie it tight enough.

grimace at clippers!!

if you cut them off by whatever means they bleed a lot. I shaved one off and it seemed to bleed all flipping night. I panicked. tieing seems better.

I showed my doctor mine in panic and she did not offer to remove them

BCNS · 04/06/2009 20:39

you don't want to know where I have one.. and it's annoying enough to get removed.. but in a place I don't tend to wave about.. and I could reach it if I tried to tie cotton round it!

BCNS · 04/06/2009 20:39

couldn't *

SoupDragon · 04/06/2009 20:41

I numbed mine with and ice cube and snipped it off with nail clippers. Didn't hurt at all.

ilovesprouts · 04/06/2009 20:42

nail clippers ive some under my arm but they dont bother me

SoupDragon · 04/06/2009 20:42

Incidentally, many years ago I removed one with nail clippers and no ice cube. It was f-ing agony!

SoupDragon · 04/06/2009 20:43

There was no blood beyond what you'd get from a pin prick.

Numberfour · 04/06/2009 20:47

i developed MILLIONS when i was pregnant and they have not gone away! in my neck, throat, underarm. Yuck

I would not be able to do the clippers thing, never heard of the the thread thing, but will certainly raise it with the practice nurse.

will watch thread with interest and my skin tags..............