I have a big, pointy mole on my chin. My roommate calls this “the creepy mole”. I dislike this mole so much that I grew a goatee as soon as I was able to hide it. My roommate calls that the “creepy beard”. There’s just no pleasing some people.
Strangely, I’ve had it since I was seven, and it only started bothering me a couple years ago.
In any case, it’s going to be punched out today at Brevard Dermatology Center. They give me a local, remove mole, take a couple stitches, and I’m good to go. I’m going to look so different… not least because I have to shave in a few minutes (haven’t been clean-shaven in over a year) and keep my chin beard-free until the stitches are gone.
I may actually miss the mole…
So, share your mole-removal stories here guys, and wish me luck. Not as if this procedure is going to result in my death, but I tend to have very poor luck with local anasthesia, leading to a great many, “Aaaargh! Doc, I can feel it!” episodes.
I had a mole removed from my calf about ten years ago. They numbed me up and started slicing. It was pretty neat to watch. They put some kind of filler in the hole to reduce scarring (plaster? wood putty? If it was on my knee would they have used joint compound? [heh]), and then stitched it up. It went a little deeper than they thought, so it did get a little painful, but nothing too bad.
I had some other thing removed from my face with a laser. Again, they just numbed me up, but I could smell my flesh burning during the procedure. Very strange.
Anyway, good luck! I’m sure it will work out fine. If this were happening to me, I’d be more concerned about being clean shaven. Haven’t seen my chin in years. I hope it’s still there.
I had one right on the side of my head, over my ear. I finally got tired of warning barbers about it so I had it removed about a year ago. They punched it out and then cauterized the hole. Nothing like the smell of your own head burning.
Good luck, hope you don’t end up with a creepy scar for too long. Will this effect your standing for president? Are you looking for sympathy votes, or are you worried voters might have been put off by your creepy beard?
My sis-in-law had a mole on the side of her nose the size, shape and color of a pencil eraser.
Her mother just said they were not uncommon, end of story.
At eighteen she decided she was old enough to bring it up on her own and timidly went to the doc. He said “What can we do for you today?” and she just pointed to it. He said, “Aha, I see.” Then he cut a piece out of it and said come back in two weeks. When she did, he said “Well, it’s not cancerous.” and she went home with a big pink mole with a red scar on it.
What’s wrong with these doctors? If it is “cosmetic” they won’t touch it. But he could have taken the whole thing for his sample in the first place.
I had one on my chin years ago, and went to the doctor. “It looks like it’s different, like maybe it’s CHANGING SHAPE,” I told her. (It wasn’t, but I was tired of looking at a mole on my chin.) Snip, snip, and it was gone. That was good enough for her, and more than good enough for me.
You know you should rethink getting that mole removed when …
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[li]The sign over the door to the OR says “Whack-A-Mole”[/li][li]There’s a prominent notice in the OR that says “Make sure you know WHICH END you’re supposed to be operating on before cutting off ANYTHING!”[/li][/ol]
Well, as I type this, I have a band-aid on my nose from having a “bump” removed. It first appeared a couple years ago, I thought it was a zit at first, but then it NEVER WENT AWAY. After a while, I learned to hate it. I finally went to a doctor/dermatologist about it, and she said that she could remove the entire thing, send it for biopsy, and the entire procedure would be covered by insurance, regardless of whether it was benign or whatever. So I did it. No one remembers my bump, so I’ve been getting some funny reactions from people. I also had some capillaries cauterized while I was in there. I feel so Hollywood! So I’m temporarily kinda funny lookin’ but soon to be gorgeouser-than-ever.
The procedure was easy. They numbed me up by injecting novacaine into my nose until it was literally shooting out of my pores (creepy) and then snip-snipped. I kept my eyes closed the whole time. The cauterization hurt SO BAD! But I think it was worth it. So congratulations to you, creepy mole guy!
I had 7 moles removed from my back in college. They gave me a local for each, and then used the scalpel to cut them off. I felt tugging, but no pain. No pain afterward, either. I have scars where they used to be, but that is better than the moles. (They were very dark and raised, but not terribly so). I still have one on my face, right next to my mouth, but thank goodness it really is more of a beauty mark than a mole. I hated it growing up, but others tell me it is sexy. It is sexier the way it is than as a scar, at least.
Mr. Clawbane has a pale raised mole on his chin too. He also has a raised mole on his stomach, below his naval. He’s got a beauty mark/freckle type mole on his cheek as well as a few elsewhere. I think they’re sexy, he hates the one on his chin. He wants to get the one on his chin removed because it’s placement makes shaving harder. I can understand his reasons for wanting it done, and will support him if he does get it removed. I’ll just have to get used to not seeing it anymore.
I had one taken off my shoulderblade area: a really pretty brown one in the shape of Cuba. It had never bothered me before, but my new doctor took one look at it, said, “Needs to be removed, could be dangerous” in that don’t-ask-questions-I’m-in-charge-here tone of voice. Well, I went to the day surgery place, and they gave me a local anesthetic. I kept telling them, “I still feel something.”
The nurse was telling me, “No, no, no, that’s just pressure, you’re not feeling any pain. Here, hold my hand.”
The doctor continued cutting, until the nurse started screaming. It had hurt to the point where I flinched and ended up spraining the nurse’s wrist. (Honestly, I didn’t mean it. It did hurt. A lot.)
They gave me a couple more shots of local, sent the nurse home for the day, and continued. No problem after that.
And I got a nice coffee mug with a small ivy plant growing out of it (not for me special: every patient got one. At least they didn’t give me poison ivy). A week later, the handle fell off the mug, and the ivy died not too long afterwards. And I still have the scar on my back.
I am a teenager and I had a cancerous mole on my hip, i got it remvoed about a month ago, it is starting to grow back so i have to get it removed again
Ghanima, I had exactly the same thing removed last Tuesday! It had been on my face for 4 years. A little wee bump at the end of my nose that had become just a tad bit darker when I stuck a pin in it a couple of months ago (after it healed from that infection). My dermatologist said it was probably a hydro-something-something cyst, sliced it off and sent it to the pathologist. She called me a couple days later to say it was nothing.
I’m really happy I had this done b/c I had been obsessing over it for a while and I’m about to be kicked off of my nice cushy insurance with my parents (will have to rely on Health Services at U of I for next year and a half) and I doubt my university dermatologist would have been nice enough to do it for me.
There’s a little pink dot where it used to be (still healing) but I am happy that it’s gone. I’d rather have a little pink dot than a damn bump.
Aaaaand I’m back. There’s a gauze bandage covering pretty much the whole point of my jaw- it looks like I fell off a skateboard or something.
10 shots of novacaine in a circle around the spot… the dermatologist had to cauterize two capillaries in the hole- I couldn’t see the gun or anything because my head was tilted too far back, but I heard beeping and smelled burning, and said “what’s burning?” The nurse answered, “That would be you, honey.”
She took 15 stitches too, which are coming out in two weeks.
Thanks for all the good luck wishes… didn’t think anyone would actually post to this thread when I opened it this morning!
I think they’re sexy, he hates the one on his chin. He wants to get the one on his chin removed because it’s placement makes shaving harder. I can understand his reasons for wanting it done, and will support him if he does get it removed. I’ll just have to get used to not seeing it anymore.