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(@chrisfp99)
Famed Member     London , Kent, United Kingdom
Joined: 2 years ago

Hey girls, slightly gross topic but I have a large skin tag on the left side of my neck. The NHS here in the UK won't remove it as it's deemed cosmetic. I have a nice chunky necklace on order for next week's festivities which I'm hoping will conceal it but does anyone have any recommendations for removing it? I've read you can tie cotton around it and it'll die and just fall off but that makes me a little nervous.

Thanks ladies xx. 

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(@lizk)
Joined: 5 years ago

Illustrious Member     North County San Diego, California, United States of America
Posts: 3859

@chrisfp99 

I don't know about any home remedies Chrissie.  I'd be inclined to see a dermatologist even if it was 100% out of pocket. 

My US insurance will cover removal if it can be shown that a skin tag is irritated or will become irritated from abrasion.  Frequent necklace wearing or tight collars could be possible causes.  If you break the skin and get an infection, your doc would probably want to remove it.  You might ask your doc to file an appeal with NHS. 

/EA

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Duchess Annual
(@patches)
Joined: 1 year ago

Estimable Member     Maryland, United States of America
Posts: 114

@chrisfp99 as others have suggested, it's best to go to a dermatologist so they can advise you on what's best.

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(@emmat)
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Prominent Member     I don't do cities ;-), Powys, United Kingdom
Posts: 339

@chrisfp99 A few girls already mentioned the freezing method. Boots the chemist sell a product called Cryotag ( other brands may be available) which you can self administer.. Look for it online, and there's more information (including the price -  30 pounds). I know my wife used something similar to good effect - but that was many years ago, so I cant' quite remember what she used it on.

eM

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(@lucyb112)
Joined: 2 years ago

Noble Member     Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Posts: 1005

@emmat @chrisfp99 

I would second this Chrissie.

My wife has tried Cryotag and it works quite well.

I’ve helped administer it somewhere she just couldn’t reach easily and the skin tag came off a couple of days later 

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(@chrisfp99)
Joined: 2 years ago

Famed Member     London , Kent, United Kingdom
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Thanks Lucy, I'll check it out xx.

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(@harriette)
Illustrious Member     Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Joined: 2 years ago

You can straight up pay a dermatologist clinic of some sort to look at it and assess what is required. If it is large enough, it may be a bit more involved than just tying a piece of thread around it.

I had a bunch of small tags lasered and most of them were gone. Two came back bigger than before, so be smart and have a pro look at it first. You don't want to make things worse.

There are other home / over-the-counter remedies, too, but I have no experience with them.

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(@pantyloverguy)
Estimable Member     Georgia, United States of America
Joined: 11 months ago

You could try skin toned bandaids to cover it. Round would hide better than the longer ones. 

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(@fembecky)
Noble Member     Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Joined: 5 years ago

My wife had an annoying cyst within her hair; NHS wasn't much use so we went to a dermatologist who treated it with liquid nitrogen spray 😱 - that killed it (wife survived 👍 ) but it took a couple of weeks to atrophy and disappear so that probably doesn't fit your timescale.

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(@harriette)
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Illustrious Member     Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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@fembecky I had some sort of growth on the top of my skull frozen. Didn't hurt, problem solved.

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(@rebeccabaxter)
    Cornwall, United Kingdom
Joined: 1 year ago

Try your GP. Some of them will freeze it off, some won't. Tell them it is interfering with your life, that it itches/hurts, really play it up. I've had a few removed like that.

 

Depends how big it is, but I have used the cotton method, very successfully. You must make sure it is tight, so much so that it hurts for the first few minutes, any looser and the blood will be able to get through, negating it's effect; if it's possible, get someone to do it for you. The thing goes black and drops off in about a week.

 

I have also had success with freezing stuff but it is not the good stuff so doesn't always work first time. Doctors use liquid nitrogen which is a much lower temperature and only requires one treatment.

It's annoying that some NHS people say it's cosmetic because if the tag is not that big, it literally takes 10 seconds to treat with freezing equipment and the tag drops off in a very few days. I mean, it costs almost nothing in either money or time and yet they spend thousands repairing the damage done by Turkish cosmetic surgeons to people too cheap to have the job done properly in the UK.

I would have thought that removal of the tag shouldn't be too expensive. Try going to your GP and asking them to do the job privately, I'll bet they'll jump at that one [author tries hard here not to be too cynical]. Years ago I had to have an angiography and paid for it myself to speed things up -- cost a grand; I was told that the results showed I needed an angioplasty. I asked how long it would take before I could get it done and the clinician said about four months. With the speed that angina had come on, I didn't feel I had four months so I asked him how much to have it done privately, he told me to contact his 'other' secretary in Harley Street. When I called, the woman asked me what I wanted and after I told her she said, and I quote (this was a Wednesday) "Well, he can't do it Monday as he's on holiday, is Monday week OK?"

Very long story cut short: I had the procedure done on the Monday week. I had to pay him, the hospital fees (they were the biggest cost) and for two cardiac surgeons to stand by and do nothing in case anything went wrong (it didn't). I went in on the Monday and ran for a train (an impossibility 24 hours earlier, couldn't run to the bathroom without chest pain) on the Tuesday morning after spending one night in the hospital. It cost me £8,000 which I had to borrow from my mother. The procedure was done by the very same surgeon/clinician privately as would have done it on the NHS some four months later, by which time it was very likely that the blockage would have got so bad it would have need a bypass, costing a hell of a lot more. Of course I might have been dead by then so perhaps the NHS were taking a gamble that they might not have had to fork out at all!

 

The finale: This was in September 1997 and I have been asymptomatic ever since. So it cost me but it was money well spent in the end.

But I digressed somewhat :), sorry about that.

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Baroness
(@chrisfp99)
Joined: 2 years ago

Famed Member     London , Kent, United Kingdom
Posts: 1733

Thanks Becca. It was my GP (who's brilliant) who told me the NHS wouldn't do it. She also advised me to try the cotton method, but I've been too much of a scaredy cat😂, despite my daughter offering regularly to do it for me. It is quite unsightly and I'm hoping my chunky necklace is going to hide it next week. Glad to hear your somewhat more serious procedure went well, even if you had to shell out for it.

Hugs, Chrissie xx. 

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Lady
(@leainvancouver)
Joined: 1 year ago

Prominent Member     Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Posts: 379

@chrisfp99 Hi Chrissy, I had many skin tags I was able to get our provincial plan to approve to have removed and a few I paid to have removed.

I have also been successful using some of the over the counter remedies including the use a battery operated plasma pen that dermatologists use to zap moles and skin tags. if you use one, I suggest zapping around the edges. It gets smaller and smaller over time until it is completely replaced by normal skin and no scar is left behind.

When dermatologists cut them off it can sometimes leave behind scar tissue which you don’t want on your neck. 

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