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bobajobrob

DIY mole removal
« on: 30 June, 2008, 02:38:51 pm »
Have excavated a medium sized mole with a razor blade and a pair of nail clippers. Is this recommended?

rae

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #1 on: 30 June, 2008, 02:41:54 pm »
I don't think so.   Moles tend to require careful consideration if aggravated.

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #2 on: 30 June, 2008, 03:10:14 pm »
Have excavated a medium sized mole with a razor blade and a pair of nail clippers. Is this recommended?

If I were you I would go and see a doctor quickly and say what you have done. Or at least PM Hellymedic and ask her advice.

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Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #3 on: 30 June, 2008, 03:11:01 pm »
Shouldn't this be in The Allotment?

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Tiger

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #4 on: 30 June, 2008, 03:15:36 pm »
Trust me - I am a doctor.

Bad idea - moles are highly infective and the slightest trace of mole tissue remaining will lead to very nasty septicemia of the wound. Not only that but the mole will regrow from latent tissue and could easily become malignant.

You must now give the wound a cleaning with the razor blade to remove all traces of mole tissue and kill any mole bacteria with bleach.

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #5 on: 30 June, 2008, 03:17:30 pm »
OMG. I feel very sick.  :sick:

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Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #6 on: 30 June, 2008, 03:47:16 pm »
Are we talking about a mole (a pigmented thing which tends to stay the same size unless it becomes malignant, a melanoma) a wart (viral, contagious, can grow and spread), a verucca (viral wart, usually on weight-bearing part of foot, so grows down into the skin, or something else?
I don't know cos I've not seen it or felt it.
Anyway, I'm not much of a dermatologist.
I think you should see a doctor, who can give appropriate advice.
Septicaemia is bacteria multiplying in the blood stream so you won't get septicaemia in your mole unless you get it in the whole body, which is unlikely.
Get some decent advice from a qualified person who can look at and feel your mole.

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #7 on: 30 June, 2008, 03:48:39 pm »
Have excavated a medium sized mole with a razor blade and a pair of nail clippers. Is this recommended?

You seemed quite sane on Saturday.

Anyway, pictures?

Tiger

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #8 on: 30 June, 2008, 03:55:15 pm »
Get some decent advice from a qualified person who can look at and feel your mole.

Yes - they will need to feel the mole. Get it out of the bin, pop it in a bag and keep it in the fridge. With modern medical procedures thay may be able to save it.

bobajobrob

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #9 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:04:14 pm »
Anyway, pictures?

Not the neatest job ever ;D Still, good riddance to it :thumbsup:


Tiger

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #10 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:09:19 pm »
Cover that wound up at once. It is an open invitation to MRSA or any other flesh eating bacteria.  You could lose the limb. If that is part of you rhead you could lose your whole body.

bobajobrob

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #11 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:10:13 pm »
lol  ;D

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #12 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:11:13 pm »
 :hand:

Small mole / whatever it was. Still very very silly.

Go   to   doctor.

bobajobrob

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #13 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:13:07 pm »
I have smaller ones than that so I classed it as medium sized. Perhaps small-medium :P

annie

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #14 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:13:55 pm »
Madness ;)  I have had a few moles removed now by my dermatologist, I would get that checked out.  Don't do it again :)

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Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #15 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:34:27 pm »
I suspect this was a wart rather than a mole but can't be sure.
Digging out warts is not quite as inadvisable as digging out moles but I wouldn't advise DIY surgery.

bobajobrob

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #16 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:39:21 pm »
it was definitely a mole but was protruding 1mm or so.

hellymedic

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Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #17 on: 30 June, 2008, 04:56:44 pm »
it was definitely a mole but was protruding 1mm or so.

You've examined it under a microscope to make sure, have you?   ;) ;) ;)

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Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #18 on: 30 June, 2008, 05:02:15 pm »
Some years ago Mrs. Wow had what we thought was a mole on her back.

One evening I was absent-mindedly rubbing her back when my calloused old hand caught it and it became largely detached. The doctor reckoned it must have been a wart for it to have done that and removed the rest of it.
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annie

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #19 on: 30 June, 2008, 05:04:20 pm »
Some years ago Mrs. Wow had what we thought was a mole on her back.

One evening I was absent-mindedly rubbing her back when my calloused old hand caught it and it became largely detached. The doctor reckoned it must have been a wart for it to have done that and removed the rest of it.

Is that why you have problems with your wrist, must have been painful ;)  Did it take them long to reattach your hand?

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Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #20 on: 30 June, 2008, 05:07:05 pm »
Cut it off at the nearest joint :)
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Tiger

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #21 on: 30 June, 2008, 05:24:17 pm »
Anyway, pictures?

Not the neatest job ever ;D Still, good riddance to it :thumbsup:



There are some nasty looking brown marks on that skin that could be removed with the right sort of dermabrasion...

bobajobrob

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #22 on: 30 June, 2008, 05:32:53 pm »
Oi! I like my freckles :P

bobajobrob

Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #23 on: 30 June, 2008, 05:35:10 pm »
You've examined it under a microscope to make sure, have you?   ;) ;) ;)

Just guessing based on the profile ;)

I had warts on my hands when I was a teenager, a few of them, but haven't had any since. I know what warts are like having poked around with them. They have a strange fibrous tissue. This was a mole, and it was scarred from a cut when I was young. The warts came and went but I have had this mole for as long as I can remember. Anyway, far too much detail.

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Re: DIY mole removal
« Reply #24 on: 30 June, 2008, 05:39:14 pm »
Do as hellymedic says and get it checked out by the doctor, you silly boy.  I am confiscating all sharp things from your possession.

If you are very moley, it would be worth get a mole map done.
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