Bunch of random skin complaints - who can help?

[GhostCurry]

Hello! I have a bunch of small skin issues that I've always just ignored, but I feel like now I'm getting older and slightly more haggard, I want to get them zapped as they're bugging me now.

I have a cherry angioma on my neck, a weird lump right by the side of my nose that has been there as long as I can remember, some small broken capillaries on my cheek, and some skin tags on my stomach.

I'm clueless - is there a place I could go where they could zap all of this in one go? I'm in London.

Anyone?

Have you looked at SK:N clinics? I haven't used them but have seen one in my local town and wondered about going for a consultation for a few skin issues when I have more £!

For skin tags in my he best I've just tied a piece of clean thread/cotton around then very tightly until they die and turn into a scab (a few days). It always works for me!

Crikey, so many typos! I mean for skin tags in the past...

BusterGonad I have read some horror stories on here and I'm nervous now! What actually happens? What's left when the scab falls off? Is there a scar?

fiorentina thanks for the tip! Looking into them now!

Just noodling about on their site, and they say about skin tags: Ligation is where a band is gently tied around the tag, restricting its blood supply, causing it to fall away in time. Sounds exactly like the home method!

As for this method: Cryosurgery uses liquid nitrogen to freeze off the tag and is normally quick and painless. It typically requires several sessions for the tag to fall away completely.

Several sessions?!

Obviously do it at your own peril but it's worked for me and my husband! Take a clean piece of cotton, make sure your hands and the tag is clean, tie it around tightly once or twice and after a few days it will turn brown and fall off. Now obviously for some it can go wrong but it never has for me. I had one under my arm pit and my husband had one on his neck and eye lid.

I don't think any have scarred and I'd far rather have a faint scar than a fleshy skin tag imo!

Yes I'm happy to have a faint scar too, I don't really scar much anyway, but I guess I'm just curious as to what's UNDER there when it falls off?? Is it just as though it was never there??

Also reading up on home "ligation" - the site I'm reading says to tighten the string daily. How on earth would you do that? Surely you have to tie it off so tightly, and the thing is so small, that you couldn't tighten the existing string? Do you tie another string over the top of the first one? You'd end up with 5 or 6 strings on there by the end of the process!

Thank you BTW, Buster for answering my manic questions!

Oh buster your description made me go all weak. Sounds like a brilliant way of dealing with them though. To think people have them their whole lives when they could just do the twisty thing.

No advice OP other than you should defo treat yourself to get these things done and dusted and enjoy the rest of your life without them...bliss! Good luck

The skin just joins together where you've tied it. I've never put more cotton on, the tags were small ish though.

I have cut off skin tags with clean nail clippers, no issues at all.

I couldn't do that Fio...no way!!!

A friend of mine told me once that her doctor freezes them off for her every now and then. Might
Be worth asking?

fiorentina do they bleed? I have read about that online but the tags are apparently living tissue, so I'd be too scared it'd hurt!

I wouldn't clip them off. Also a higher chance of infection due to the open wound!

I haven't had any issue with more than a few spots of blood and use tea tree afterwards.