BS: Skin Thingies

Subject: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Donuel
Date: 14 Sep 18 - 09:14 PM

I went to the Dermatologist and had a couple tiny thingies frozen off with a spray can. My mistake was googling every possible expression of the skin. It became an addiction

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 18 - 09:29 PM

My physician used a spray-can treatment
on a bump on my nose.
The bump grew right back.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Sep 18 - 10:55 PM

K, are you a witch?

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 02:56 AM

This link is better:

https://www.dermnetnz.org

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Joe Offer
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 03:32 AM

I had a lot of "skin tags" around my neck (little growths, like warts by not hard). I'm wondering if they were caused by abrasion by my collar of my T-shirt. The dermatologist cauterized them - he burned them with a little electric gadget, and then they fell off leaving no trace.
But the gadget he used looked quite old, and I got a shock all the time he was using it. I wondered if I was supposed to be getting that shock. Whatever the case, it worked.

I haven't had much luck with surgical mole removal. I think I had three removed, and all of them grew back.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 04:03 AM

I have loads of seborrhoeic keratoses all over me. And skin tags. And other sorts of very decorative moles and warts. I must look like a toad.
I was sent to the Dermatology dept at the local hospital to have them all looked at, every inch of me, and fortunately there's no melanoma/squamous/basal among them. The lovely Thai specialist (she wore a sort of traditional silk dress) offered to burn/freeze the larger ones off, but I wasn't bothered.

She did say I should go back every couple of years to have them examined for any changes.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 04:25 AM

Is it hereditory?


Sort of Kith & Skin?


I'll get my lab coat.................

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 04:34 AM

Hahahahaaaaaaaagh Mr Red!!! You've done it again! (I've just spilled my tea!)

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 05:00 AM

"I have loads of seborrhoeic keratoses all over me."

Snap. I have a particularly large one on my forehead which I hate, but I've been advised to let it be.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 05:45 AM

I'm not bothered myself about these things. I suppose I could wear a burka, then no-one would see. Most of them aren't on my face though.

Husband has skin like satin. Not fair. So has his mum, and she's ancient.

His only mark is when he had a nasty tumbu larva cut out of the top of his leg a couple of years ago. It made a large keloid scar, but another nice skin specialist (an Egyptian lady this time) gave him steroid injections all round the thing and it disappeared like magic.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 08:41 AM

keratosis is genetic. It must be a mistake and not an adaptation.
I once saw a man whose face was all covered with thousands of skin tags without any space between each 'tag'.

If they really bother you there are the treatments you guys have tried.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 11:24 AM

My skin tags (mostly on my arms) disappeared when I lost 90 lbs in weight around twelve years ago. I've since put about 20 lbs back on and one or two have reappeared.

I had a funny growth on my left ear which made lying on my left painful. About three years ago the dermatology consultant at Donny hospital sprayed it with that freezing stuff, and it disappeared in about a fortnight. It's coming back again now, though not yet as bad as it was.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 12:18 PM

The very tip of my right ear became so painful that it had to be cut off and my ear reshaped by a plastic surgeon.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 12:49 PM

Bloody heck! Mine's not that bad! ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Senoufou
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 01:53 PM

Ouch Steve! That sounds painful.

I have a red-haired friend who is very prone to skin cancers. She sees the specialist twice a year and he zaps the things while they're very tiny. I think he uses a laser.
She has to use very strong sunscreen and carry an umbrella in the summer, like a Victorian lady with a parasol.

Half a dozen elderly people in our village have basal cell carcinomas on their noses or the skin of the scalp at the top of their heads.
They've all had them removed, and successfully cured, but as I've spent long periods under the fierce sun of Africa, I keep an eye on my skin.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: frogprince
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 03:36 PM

I've been seeing quite a few nice thingies covered with skin these last few days, on Naxos and now here on Menorca.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 04:10 PM

I hope it'll be like that in Kefalonia, where shortly I will be....

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Jack Campin
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 05:13 PM

Pimple popping videos, anyone?

I'm sure there is one featuring Greek beach babes (for the sake of continuity) but I couldn't find an example.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Sep 18 - 08:06 PM

There is a pimple popping cable channel here but I'm not curious enough to watch. I hear it is second only the golden shower channel.
All kinds of shit passes for entertainment lately.

Subject: RE: BS: Skin Thingies
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Sep 18 - 07:25 PM

There are tags turning up
on my eyelids, of all places,
which is irritating in more ways than one.