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