Hardly boasting, but with my Celtic skin in a tropical climate, I have had around 70 hits of that during one session. I come out feeling like I have been attacked by bees.
Some of course were pretty minor. Others really horrible.
You’re telling me.
TMI Alert:
I removed a mole on my back once … by myself. :eek:
I was ice skating on a lagoon, wearing just a light jacket, when I crouched down to skate under a stone arch pedestrian bridge.
Didn’t crouch down far enough, and scraped my back on the underside of the bridge something fierce.
Later in day, after returning home and changing out of my skating clothes, I saw that the back of my shirt was very bloody.
And then I noticed on the floor the mole that was ripped out when I scraped my back on the stone underside of the bridge.
It was a big mole, as these things go, perhaps 1 cm in diameter. And it had a black cone-shaped root about 2 cm long. And Mrs. Spiff verified that I had a very neat-looking hole in my back that looked like someone had poked me with an ice pick.
This happened about 10 years ago, and I had Mrs. Spiff check the spot where the mole was every so often for a year or so, to check if anything has grown back in the spot.
Nothing has, so I think my method of mole removal was very effective. But I can see how it may not become popular …
I get stuff frozen off every time I go to the dermatologist. However much it stings, it’s a thousand times better than getting a chunk cut out of me in the MOHS surgery unit.
Well I’ve only had a couple of warts and a couple of seborrheic keratoses frozen off, but it just didn’t hurt that much. But I may have a higher than normal tolerance for pain (up to a point, and then past that I jump instantly from discomfort to agonizing, brain-melting, psyche searing pain).
Nitpick: plantar. Nothing to do with planters. 
BTW a weird thing about liquid nitrogen is that you can dip a finger in it for a surprisingly long time (not a looong time, but longer than you’d think, like maybe a second!) without doing any harm. That’s because the heat of your finger creates a layer of vapour which insulates it. Demonstration.
Don’t try that with a dry ice/acetone bath, though. Although it’s much less cold (-108F versus -321F), it doesn’t vaporise with the heat of your finger, and will freeze it more or less instantly. It hurts.
That’s how my doctor took a mole off my back, too. And then when he was done he poured the remainder in the sink so we could watch it billow up in a cloud. 
I was offered a shot of novocaine but declined because yes, it would hurt more than the freezing part did. I don’t recall it hurting at all, but it could see how it might if it was used on a more sensitive area.
If you are a person who was a frequent client at a tanning bed joint, you can probably look forward to a lot of removals of pre-cancerous spots.
When I had a bit of kera-something or other sliced off my face at the dermatologists, they injected a little novocaine into it first. The injection didn’t hurt much, and it took effect almost immediately. As in, she injected me, threw away the hypo, picked up a scalpel and came at me. I was numb in about ten seconds. If I ever have a sizable mole or wart, and they want to freeze it, I’m going to speak up for some novocaine.
Me, too. Six of them on my back. Stings a bit, but goes pretty quick.
Yup, the Leidenfrost effect
I remember “impressing” girls in chem and physics lab in college by pouring a bit of liquid nitrogen into my cupped hand, juggling it from hand to hand for a few seconds, then “splashing” it onto the lab floor where it would vaporize almost immediately.
Yes I had a few warts on my hands when I was a kid. Being the type of kid who was always falling off some damn thing (usually a bike) onto abrasive surfaces (roads, pathways, gravel) sooner or later I would cause enough grazing trauma to the warts to make them go away.
Liquid nitrogen, a bunch of grapes, and a slingshot! Good fun.
Just don’t swallow it. :eek:
My lab supervisor put some in his mouth once and blew smoke rings… however he warned me that he’d heard of someone doing the same and shattering his front teeth :smack:
My friend said they used to do this in his lab with (fortunately already dead) mice! :eek:
from time to time i get little skin tags right where the breast tissue meets the chest wall. they can get very irritated from the braline rubbing against them, which is not a good thing, long-term.
back when i was unemployed and had no insurance, i knew i had several that needed to come off, so i told the doc to remove them sans anesthetic to cut down on the cost. luckily for me i have a high pain threshold, so it all worked out.
she clipped them off with a pair of surgical clamps, then zipped them off with either a scalpel or a pair of surgical scissors. i didn’t look. 
it was pretty much a large pinch and then over with. slapped a couple of band-aids on the bleeders in the bunch and went on my way. wore soft sport bras for a while.
they haven’t come back, and hopefully i won’t have to do that again for a a while.
I don’t know how many skin tags I’ve snipped off of myself. I’ve also snipped off a few from my husband and daughter. Clean the area with alcohol, as well as the implements. I use a pair of tweezers, and either cuticle scissors or cuticle nippers. Grab with tweezers, cut with the nippers/scissors. Granted, I haven’t snipped off large tags, but I make up for it in volume.