# Mole removal! Comfort me, or, share your horror stories! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 15, 2011, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-removal-comfort-me-or-share-your-horror-stories/571506 "2011-02-15T22:51:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-removal-comfort-me-or-share-your-horror-stories/571506/61 "2011-03-07T14:30:52Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > 'nother update: got a call at the end of the day yesterday from the dr.'s office. All four removals were benign. One had “more cellular activity” than the others (sorry, can’t recall the technical term she used) but that overall no further treatment was necessary. > > Huzzah for good news! 🙂 I Missed Your Update!!! \*\* _High Five!_\*\* ps- all 3 of mine were benign, per test results relayed to me some 10 minutes ago… ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-removal-comfort-me-or-share-your-horror-stories/571506/62 "2011-03-07T15:05:25Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > I Missed Your Update!!! \*\* _High Five!_\*\* > ps- all 3 of mine were benign, per test results relayed to me some 10 minutes ago… (note corrected font size :D) Yay on your good news also! I know the doc was worried about one of yours! Funny that it wasn’t the one that we had all zeroed in on per your description. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-removal-comfort-me-or-share-your-horror-stories/571506/63 "2011-03-07T15:16:12Z")
* * * > [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > (note corrected font size :D) > Yay on your good news also! I know the doc was worried about one of yours! Funny that it wasn’t the one that we had all zeroed in on per your description. thank you! And if anyone else out there is reading this and has a mole or a bump or a spot that they’ve been putting off seeing a Dr about,\* please get it tested.\* Its been a crappy & draining two weeks (a little bandage humor) and I honestly wouldn’t have wished that [del]weight[/del] wait on Anybody. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2011, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-removal-comfort-me-or-share-your-horror-stories/571506/64 "2011-03-07T16:12:14Z")
Stitches out last Friday. That one’s healing up just fine. One of the others (not stitched) is not quite so fine. I apparently have a serious sensitivity to adhesives (nurse’s exact words to me: “No more Band-Aids. For the rest of your life.”) so I wasn’t able to keep it covered as long as I probably should have. Not infected, but … ugh. Nurse gave me some sort of sticker thingy - wish I knew what it was. Better now. Still totally worth it not to have to worry that I have some sort of ticking time bomb stuck to my skin. 🙂 \*\* High-five back to **Count B.** ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-removal-comfort-me-or-share-your-horror-stories/571506/65 "2011-03-08T03:28:56Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Stitches out last Friday. That one’s healing up just fine. One of the others (not stitched) is not quite so fine. I apparently have a serious sensitivity to adhesives (nurse’s exact words to me: “No more Band-Aids. For the rest of your life.”) so I wasn’t able to keep it covered as long as I probably should have. Not infected, but … ugh. Nurse gave me some sort of sticker thingy - wish I knew what it was. Better now. Still totally worth it not to have to worry that I have some sort of ticking time bomb stuck to my skin. 🙂 > > \*\* High-five back to **Count B.** Oh I know. Its like being 17 and 10 minutes after doing the dare to chug a bottle of champagne before the ball drops on New Years: better out than in, even if out isn’t pleasant. :eek: ☹ Say, that means you have what I have. You know what that means? …mine itches like a Sonufabitch too!!! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-removal-comfort-me-or-share-your-horror-stories/571506/66 "2011-03-08T04:12:46Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > Stitches out last Friday. That one’s healing up just fine. One of the others (not stitched) is not quite so fine. I apparently have a serious sensitivity to adhesives (nurse’s exact words to me: “No more Band-Aids. For the rest of your life.”) so I wasn’t able to keep it covered as long as I probably should have. Not infected, but … ugh. Nurse gave me some sort of sticker thingy - wish I knew what it was. Better now. Still totally worth it not to have to worry that I have some sort of ticking time bomb stuck to my skin. 🙂 Me, too, on the bandaid allergy. I once spent a solid year thinking I was allergic to the flu shot, when it was just the bandaid I was allergic to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mole-removal-comfort-me-or-share-your-horror-stories/571506.md?page=3)