Seborreic keratosis

A face one

My back

I am not sure if the right thing, but I have had success with white juice of a dandelion applied a few times a day.

I've had mine (on face, neck and shoulders) removed by a private dermatologist. The treatment is called cryotherapy and she sprayed the 'lesions' as she called them with short bursts from a can of liquid nitrogen. It freezes them off. It hurts a little bit, like being pressed with a cigarette end (not that I ever have been), but the burning pain is momentary.
Afterwards you feel sore for a couple of hours, especially on the back if you've had treatment there. It takes some weeks for the lesions to disappear but they really do - it's a very effective treatment. They can come back but not for some considerable time, a couple of years or so and some don't come back at all.

I'd really recommend the treatment which cost me £90 per session (I had four sessions and four lesions were treated at each £90 session). It's made a huge difference to my confidence and the clothes that I can wear, lower necklines for example.

I had two pencil rubber sized ones removed from my shin by laser in the local beauty clinic. It was a bit stingy during treatment but they fell off after a week and never returned. I had the same treatment for red thread veins on my cheeks which was also really successful. I paid £45 for a 15 minute session. Hope this helps.

I had two large areas removed by freezing with liquid nitrogen. After a few years they just grew back.

As these are viewed as cosmetic if you want them treated the NHS won't do them. So unfortunately you have to go down the private route. Just had about four on my face removed by cryotherapy where they were frozen with liquid nitrogen. He also did several on my back and a couple on my stomach. £600+ but money well spent for me. I know they sometimes come back which is a bummer but I hate having them. They have no root just clusters of melanin skin cells. Even covering up with SP50 when in the sun they still develop. I call them barnacles. It's age, familial genetics and sun exposure. Cryotherapy doesn't hurt just stings a bit. Once treated with liquid nitrogen they'll fall off after a few days.

I had one on the side of my cheek near my ear. My hair covered it mostly. After a year or two it just dropped off and left no scar.

What damage we have done to our skin in the past without knowing.
I lived by the coast in Kent from 6 to 18 years old and we were tanned from June to September. Then holidays in the Med. . No wonder I have many seb keratosis.
It's factor 50 all the way now.

I wonder if this is what I have on my back several patches of sort of dry skin that sometimes I'm able to scrape off with finger nail. These are colourless though so maybe different?

I visited my gp 2 weeks ago as I had a seb k on my tummy area which was bleeding from my waistband rubbing against it. He checked it wasn't anything sinister and advised that the surgery have a Cryopen on order to freeze such things. Since then the seb k started becoming looser and came off in the shower yesterday. However I have two more which also catch onto clothing so will have them taken off if possible. I had one frozen off by a freezing spray a couple of years which has never returned.

Cryopen at a local beauty clinic between £50-£75 to remove up to 4. If they are big you might need more than one session. It works by freezing them , doesn’t hurt, no down time and literally takes minutes

I've had some frozen off by my GP & had to have some treated with chemotherapy cream last year as they were pre-cancerous. I now have to cover up in the sun, which, as a sun worshipper in the past, is difficult. But it's sunbathing over the years that's done the damage. I've also recently had some treated with steroid cream.

In the past, I was plagued with skin tags on my neck (stopped wearing neck chains and the tags stopped). I went to Boots and saw the pharmacist and she recommended something called Cryotag which freezes the offending skin and then it falls off (may take a couple treatments). I have recently been told that a patch on my temple is seborreic keratosis and I have successfully used the Cryotag on that. Note - it says it should only be used for skin tags, but the GP assurred me it was ok. (Cryotag is not cheap - about £25 -£30 for a container which lasts a long time.)

Does anyone have a picture of this as I would be interested to see. What it looks like.

I have used fulvic acid nail cream and it’s very good.
It got rid of a wart on my finger.
I use it occasionally on all my fingers and toe nails.

I must get some more.

I have a multitude on my back. In recent months, a few have appeared on my face. I had one on my chest, which a GP noticed when she was about to burn off a wart on my neck, and she said she could do the one on my chest, which she did. However, it didn’t heal very well, leaving quite a raw looking patch. Last year, I was at the local dermatology clinic due to a small skin cancer on my nose. I let the dermatologist see it, and she decided to do a biopsy on it, and it turned out to be malignant. It was removed, and I was told that it had penetrated the fat layer, but she was positive that it had all been removed. It was a small mark, but it needed eight stitches, and the scar is two inches long. I’m quite annoyed with the GP.

I have one about the size of a 2 pound coin on my shin I’ve been told that it’s nothing sinister, I managed to scrape it off a couple of times but it’s always returned

The cream I use is called Fulvic Acid nail cream, fungal isn’t mentioned in the name.

I have recently had one removed on my hand and my local GP surgery did it. I went to get it checked as it had got bigger and was itching and he said would you like it removed. I waited around 6 weeks but got it done a month ago. They sent it off to be checked and it came back all clear.

My mother had a large one on her throat area. She read that if you apply Vitamin E cream every day for 6 months it will disappear. This is exactly what happened. She was delighted even though applying the cream was a bit of a chore. You can buy it in health food shops. About £6 a pot which lasts for ages.

I have several of these. I’ve got rid of a few by applying fungal nail cream night and morning. I buy it from Victoria Health. Of course those that worry me I consult my GP about, and I’ve had a couple frozen off.

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I have a consultation in April at a nearby Circle Health hospital and then hopefully an appt to have this abomination removed. I was interested to see that a PP had 3 removed at one go as I have 3 on my face not all as big as the rice krispie. So I hope this consultant offers the same.
Thank you Silvershadow for your recommendation it spurred me into action. My very dear sis in law said I am worth it!!

I’m glad to have been of help. I’ll be doing the same myself very soon.

I had a flat wart-like growth on my upper eyelid, clearly benign, so I didn't even mention it to the GP.

I paid a reputable aesthetician (experienced in removing skin tags etc.) £100 and she lasered it. I'm very pleased the unsightly thing is gone so I never have to think of it again! Money well spent.

My DH has one right next to his eye and it’s horrible. It scabs over, then crusts off then sometimes bleeds, then the whole process starts again.

Been checked out by GP, no treatment offered at all, not even cream