First skin tag!

I have two skin tags on my neck and went to see the doctor. Refused point blank to do anything to them at all and said I had to have them done privately now as the nhs no longer covers cosmetic surgery!!

phoenix join the club!
I suppose that once one reaches the age of 'ageing' all kinds of thing start to happen! Amongst others, things fall down or sag, fall out, drop off, wrinkle up, sprout, fade, stiffen or fail to function in one way or another.
I said to DH today that I am thankful that he is long sighted so doesn't realise what has happened to me. He replied, "You will always be beautiful to me" - all was going so well until he uttered the last two words!

Think yourselves lucky. I lost my eyebrows along with the rest of my body hair (didn't mind that!) Also, unrelated, according to my dermatologist, I have a receding hairline which I believe will stop in the middle of my scalp eventually. None of the treatments I was given worked and it is quite rare she says!! It is called frontal fibrosing alopecia, which is an auto immune disorder.

Christinefrance I could make a list of other results of aging but it's not a competition is it and after all none of them are life threatening.

That is my problem also phoenix. My eyebrows are the shade that my hair used to be. I do not think about it.

Charleygirl! It seems I just can't win.

A recent article that I read about grey hair being the latest thing (I have recently let it go grey, much lower maintenance!) and it said never have your hair more than 2 shades different from your eyebrows.

Well, that's a bit of a bu#ger, my eyebrows are still naturally quite dark, and my hair isn't!

What am I supposed to do about that?

phoenix join the club!

Thanks for all the replies, always appreciated!

I think I will mention it to the GP when I next have to go, won't make an appointment just for that.

Have noticed a few things recently, the way I seem to walk like an old lady when I first get up (the hip creaks, the right ankle strongly objects to going downstairs) and one of my elbows has decided to wake me up in the night by hurting, don't know why, I haven't injured it.

And I'm only 58!

Gillybob. ??

I thought it was the year of The Rooster Auntieflo.

Just shows what I know.

OUCH

phoenix please do not remove the skin tag using a razor or any other implement. Please do the sensible thing and get your GP to remove it. Mine has a minor ops clinic once a week, does your? If you start to remove it, as others have said, you may start to bleed quite profusely.

Must be the year of the skin tag. I have had one or two in the past, and dealt with them by the cotton trick. This year, especially around my neck, they are popping up apace. There is a biggish one, and it is currently being strangled by cotton. I think it is going to be a battle between it and me, but I shall persevere.

I had one on my neck too. I didn't mess about with razors or other such things, it was fairly long, so I just pulled it off between my finger and thumb, (freshly washed of course). It has not grow back.

I have had several skin 'tags' and the doctors told me that they were papillomas, caused by a virus. Each time they were 'frozen' off by the GP with no lasting effects.

Don't whatever you do, Phoenix do what my friend did.

She read that rubbing garlic on a skin tag would make it eventually drop off. Being the impatient type she thought she could fast forward the treatment and decided to tape a small piece of garlic to her inner thigh. The skin tag did drop off, but it took a small chunk of leg with it. The result was a very nasty burn and minor surgery. She is left with a horrid scar.

Oh no, yet another horrible thing to look forward to....... Give us a break old age.... There must be some good things? Yes I know, its better than the alternative!

You are lucky then absent. If there is any age related appearance thing I get it. Thinning hair, thread veins, skin tags,etc. My daughters complain vociferously when a new one arrives, " is this what we have to look forward to now Mother "
At least I'm relatively compos mentis.

I cut mine off with nail clippers!
I'm sure its not recommended, and they can bleed a fair bit, but I have a plaster at the ready.

I think it is unlikely that everyone – or even anyone – who has posted here must be older than me, so I guess that I am just very lucky as I'd never even heard of skin tags until someone mentioned them on Gransnet. Neither my mama who lived to the age of 92 nor I (66 at the moment) have ever had any.

What a timely post.. I too have my first skin tag but between my breasts so not obvious thank goodness. I remember noticing my mum having several near her bra line when I was washing her during her final illness. I read about the cotton tying but there's no way I could do that on mine, too small and awkward position.
I also have a few cherry angiomas (I think) around the same area. The joys of growing old!!!

I have done both, pinched and tied with cotton.
My son had quite a large one just below his armpit, mentioned it to doc when he was there for something else. Doc looked at it and told him to get me to tie cotton around the base. He had never heard of such a thing and was a bit dubious lol. But I did it and it came off a few days later.

A lot of gp and some dermatologist have stopped removing skin tags non malignant moles etc because they don't get funding because it's classed as cosmetic . It is in news about patients paying gp for these things .

I've used the pinch method on a couple in the neck area.
I've had a small one right in the outer corner of my eye for as long as I can remember. I'm not brave enough to try it there.

I have very strong pincers fingernails. Dab of TCP afterwards, and job done.

I have one right on my cheek, which I hate. I look like a witch. I am seeing the dermatologist in a couple of weeks and hope she will do something about it.