Anyone ever had a mole removed?

[LauRa Lu]

Anyone ever had a mole removed?

Yesterday I had mole removed off my back. They made the top of my back numb and then sliced the mole off. It bled rather alot and it took alot longer than I thought it would for the doctor to remove it, which wasn't pain ful but uncomfortable. The nurse told me to take some paracetamol because it would hurt once the numbness went... and 'heck' did it hurt :eek: Like a stab in the back! and still hurts now.

I tried not to sleep on it last night, but I must have done by accident because it's bled a bit under the plaster. I have stitches in it so I didnt think it would bleed?! I'm suposed to take the plaster off now so that it will heal better... but I don't wanna see it. And when it comes to ripping plasters off I've always been a wooss. :whistling

Anyone had anything like this? Anyone know how long it could take to heal? I'm thinking a week maybe.

Is it only when we have high blood sugars that healing takes longer, or do us diabetics take longer to heal even with perfect bg levels?

[Belinda]

I have had some removed from my face...they were not the brown moles but just the raised bumps. The process was the same, numb it, scrape it and burn it. I did not have to have stitches. I had small bandaids on them and kept neosporin on them. It took like 5 days for them to clear up with the exception of the one that was large and deep which took more like 10 days. Is plaster like a bandaid?

[LauRa Lu]

Is plaster like a bandaid?
Yes :)

I have another mole by my ear just under my hair line thats really big and the doc says to keep an eye on it. I wouldn't like to have that one removed.

Belinda, were the ones on your face painful afterwards and whilst they were removed? My back is still hurting now so I wouldn't like this kind of pain on my face...

[Jamie]

I had a few removed last fall, also one on my back that needed stitches. Took about 1 week to heal. No problems experienced.

[duck]

I had what I thought was acne grow almost DIRECTLY between my eyes last Fourth of July weekend...It took about 6 weeks before I realized this thing was not going away, and then it took months of ribbing from my wife for me to get it removed (and the fact that I could not toward the end resist picking at it, that was BAD).

Why did it have to grow between my eyes?

Anyway, the doc said it was a growth that occurred over dead skin (I forget the term), he cut it off and then cauterized the wound so it hopefully will not come back. And it BLED when he cut it off, terrible.

Everyone heals differently. I heal very fast with tattoos and piercings, but I swear when I scratch myself those are permanent scars, go figure.

[zookeeper671]

My non-diabetic bf had a mole go AWOL a couple of weeks ago, and he healed within a matter of days. It was the weirdest thing... a normal mole on his back that kinda dried up, scabbed, and fell off all by itself. :confused: Skin is nice and smooth now. Had that happen to me also, many years ago... same exact thing. I've noticed that it tends to take an extra couple of days for me to heal compaired to him when it comes to injuries of the skin.

[Eri's mom]

My sis, a non-diabetic, had this huge mole thing removed from her back...well, it didn't LOOK TOO huge, until the doc went to remove it...then it looked like a tree frog w/ extra limbs...pretty weird. It took her 2 weeks to recover...stitches were removed by her then husband(he is now deceased)...a week later(the stitches, he was a firemedic)...

I had a few moles removed from around my jawline, and a cancerous flat freckle-like thing removed from my cheek...those took 2 weeks to heal as well(and I had to wear a round bandaid on my cheek for 2 weeks...in the FL sun...now THAT was really great looking and fun to try and evenly tan once the bandage was removed!!!)lol

[lgvincent]

I've always been under the impression that a mole is basically a mass of blood vessels. I guess that would explain the bleeding.

My grandmother had several removed but she never said anything about it as far as healing time or pain involved. She had adult-onset diabetes but she and one of her daughters denied it and refused to take the drugs she was prescribed or check her blood sugar. She's dead now and . . .