hi everyone!..I am new here and have an issue that I am needing advice on. I have a small skin tag on the top of my inner labia and sometimes it gets irritated after sex. It really scared me when it came up because I was scared I had contracted HPV, but my doctor assured me that it was a simple skin tag and that there was no reason to remove it as it is not dangerous. I have decided to go ahead and have it removed because it just bothers me being there like that, and I was wondering if anyone here has had this before?? If so, how do they remove it and does it cause scarring afterwards??? I am sorry to ask so many questions, but I am just a little worried!
I had a skin tag on my eyelid once. The Dr. used liquid nitrogen to freeze it. That was about 45 years ago. A friend had one removed a couple months ago and his Dr. did it the same way so I guess they haven't changed the method a whole lot. It doesn't hurt but you do feel it freezing.
Last year I had about 13 of them removed from my neck because my collar was irritating them. That Dr. numbed me with a needle for each one and cut them off. The only pain was 13 needle pricks. I don't know what the difference was that he did it that way instead of the freezing method. Those were the kind you see on a lot of old people that look like tiny brown moles. I think they show up now because they don't let barbers shave your neck anymore when you get a haircut. I think shaving with a strait razor probably took them off before they became large enough to see.
Years ago I had one show up on my penis right next to the urethra and I just pinched it off with my fingernails. If I could have found a female dermatologist I would have gone to her to get it removed but I wasn't about to have any male doctor touching my penis. o.O
I had no scarring from any of them and it was not painful.
I don't blame you for wanting to get rid of it. I felt it was best to get rid of them before they got large enough to BE painful to remove. I don't understand doctors who think you should live with some things. If you don't like them, why not get rid of them?
Last year I had about 13 of them removed from my neck because my collar was irritating them. That Dr. numbed me with a needle for each one and cut them off. The only pain was 13 needle pricks. I don't know what the difference was that he did it that way instead of the freezing method. Those were the kind you see on a lot of old people that look like tiny brown moles. I think they show up now because they don't let barbers shave your neck anymore when you get a haircut. I think shaving with a strait razor probably took them off before they became large enough to see.
Years ago I had one show up on my penis right next to the urethra and I just pinched it off with my fingernails. If I could have found a female dermatologist I would have gone to her to get it removed but I wasn't about to have any male doctor touching my penis. o.O
I had no scarring from any of them and it was not painful.
I don't blame you for wanting to get rid of it. I felt it was best to get rid of them before they got large enough to BE painful to remove. I don't understand doctors who think you should live with some things. If you don't like them, why not get rid of them?
thank you for responding and you give some great advice! I agree that doctors should just remove things like that if they know it's bothersome...I also just hate the fact that it is in such an intimate area! I actually thought about trying to cut it off with a nail clipper %-) , but I was too chicken to do it, so I guess it's another trip back to the doctor's office!...thank you again for your reply!
I meant to tell you how they do the liquid nitrogen. They dip a swab (Q-tip) in it and hold the swab against the skin tag.
I would encourage you to let the doc do it. I had one on my neck years ago and I numbed it with ice and cut it off with clippers. It bled pretty bad for hours and I almost couldn't make it stop. I had to hold gauze on it with pretty strong pressure for most the afternoon before it finally quit. I knocked the scab off the next day and it started all over again.
I had one on my neck years ago and I numbed it with ice and cut it off with clippers. It bled pretty bad for hours and I almost couldn't make it stop. I had to hold gauze on it with pretty strong pressure for most the afternoon before it finally quit. I knocked the scab off the next day and it started all over again.[/quote wrote:
It sounds like you got an unusual one that had developed a blood supply. My doc told me they don't normally have much of a blood supply and they have very few nerves, if any. I think he is right because I tried pinching one with my fingernail as hard as I could and didn't really feel much of anything. Of course when you clip one off you would be trying to get all of it so you might cut into some skin that does have nerves.
Yea, I'm now growing one near my left eyelid that I'm scared to cut into for fear the same thing will happen. If it doesn't get caught in a car door or elevator or something, I'll probably have it removed eventually... XD
If you get a piece of cotton or dental floss and tie it around the neck of the skin tag tightly, it will go black and then drop off in two to three days. You can always have it removed by your doctor and is less painful and quicker!