# What disgusting things have you had cut off your body? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 14, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005 "2008-08-14T17:04:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/1 "2008-08-14T17:04:18Z")
Following some minor surgical procedures last week, I have now had the following disgusting things cut off my body: [Cherry angioma](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_angioma) [Skin tags](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrochordon) [Plantar wart](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar_wart) And most recently: [Milia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milia) [Mollusca](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molluscum_contagiosum) ---
**Author:** ![Litoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9f8e36/32.png) [@Litoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Litoris)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/2 "2008-08-14T17:44:23Z")
A 3lb panni. YUCK! ---
**Author:** ![mrsspooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mrsspooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsspooky)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/3 "2008-08-14T18:36:29Z")
my penis… kidding! Ive never had one to begin with! Im yet to have something cut off my body but this thread still interests me. Im sure there will be a few good stories! ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/4 "2008-08-14T18:47:53Z")
Foreskin… ---
**Author:** ![Maeglin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@Maeglin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeglin)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/5 "2008-08-14T18:54:23Z")
This freaky girl who stalked me. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4491bb/32.png) [@I\_Have\_Hippos\_In\_My\_Garden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Have_Hippos_In_My_Garden)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/6 "2008-08-14T18:55:26Z")
Do tonsils count? ---
**Author:** ![PaulParkhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@PaulParkhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulParkhead)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/7 "2008-08-14T19:30:01Z")
It wasn’t cut off, but my sebaceous cyst kinda swelled up and then dribbled out in small chunks of foul-smelling gunk. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/8 "2008-08-14T19:47:27Z")
Oh, I forgot to list my sebaceous cyst! Had one of those cut off (cut out, actually, with a punch) too. > [@mrsspooky](#): > > my penis… I wondered whether any of our real transDopers would show up and say this… ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/9 "2008-08-14T22:02:56Z")
A 7 lb, 12 1/2 oz boy. Although the disgusting part really didn’t kick in until 12 years later when he decided that things like showers and deodorant and clean bedrooms were for suckers. ---
**Author:** ![Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@Tool\_of\_the\_Conspiracy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tool_of_the_Conspiracy)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/10 "2008-08-14T22:13:57Z")
Once when I was young and foolish, I got so bored that I poked a guitar string through one of my moles. (It was about the shape of a pencil eraser.) After a while, I decided that was kind of gross, so I finished the job by cutting it off with an X-Acto knife. It bled more than I expected, but left a flat pink (but hairy) scar in the place of the dark bump that had been rubbing on my clothes my whole life. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Shroud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@The\_Shroud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Shroud)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/11 "2008-08-14T22:22:58Z")
[Epidermal inclusion cyst](http://medic.med.uth.tmc.edu/edprog/00001134.htm) on my forehead, which my friends affectionately called “the toomah.” Nerdy postscript: It was 1996 and I bookmarked the above page in Netscape. In 2008, I’m still building on the same bookmarks file in Firefox, and that one, clearly, still works. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/12 "2008-08-15T01:10:56Z")
I had a large growth removed from my right buttcheek in 2002. “And now for something completely different, a man with three buttocks!” ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Tiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/13 "2008-08-15T01:20:14Z")
I have a skin tag that I need to get removed, and I’ve had a couple of moles removed that started growing when I was pregnant – probably nothing to worry about, but they were in annoying spots. And I have some kind of a cystic lump in my thigh that I need to get checked out. I’m just hoping that if it is a sebaceous cyst, I can appreciate it spilling all kinds of ooky stuff if/when it’s removed. Oh, and I’ve had an arthritic bone removed from one thumb, and I had my knee joint removed last year (and a shiny new titanium one inserted). They had me very lightly out during the knee surgery (with a spinal so it’s not like I could feel any pain), and I woke up during it and was quite annoyed they insisted on putting me back to sleep. Thanks to the disgusting pimple and TMI and such threads here on the Dope, I have grown to such an appreciation of all things disgusting that the doctors couldn’t understand why I would want to stay awake to listen in on what they were doing with my knee. Killjoys. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/14 "2008-08-15T01:49:12Z")
[Pterygiums](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterygium_(conjunctiva)) from both eyes (not at the same time). ---
**Author:** ![LifeOnWry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/96bed5/32.png) [@LifeOnWry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LifeOnWry)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/15 "2008-08-15T03:29:02Z")
[QUOTE=I Have Hippos In My Garden] Do tonsils count? [/QUOTE] I think mine do, as I’ve had them removed three times. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/16 "2008-08-15T03:50:21Z")
Appendix. Tonsils, Warts. Salivery gland. Despite living in Thailand, I’ve managed to keep my penis attached. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/17 "2008-08-15T05:08:31Z")
When I was a kid I used to get all sorts of Plantar Warts, mostly on the soles of my feet. Had several cut away. Gross. Thankfully they stopped occuring once I hit puberty. “Little GameHat” has a small skin tag. I also have a few small skin tags on my eyelids. I plan to leave these alone. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/18 "2008-08-15T05:32:49Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Appendix. Tonsils, Warts. Salivery gland. Despite living in Thailand, I’ve managed to keep my penis attached. [/QUOTE] Oh, and part of a finger. Just to the last knuckle. Or first, whatever you call it; the one on the end. Got it caught in a door way back when. Ouch! ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/19 "2008-08-15T08:23:41Z")
Let’s see…a plantar’s wart and a couple of run of the mill warts when I was a kid, a sebaceous cyst, two wisdom teeth and [Basal-cell carcinoma - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basal_cell_carcinoma) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005/20 "2008-08-15T08:37:40Z")
Just a few teeth, which were in quite a horrific state. Oh, and my foreskin, but that was hardly disgusting, even though it was a medical necessity. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-disgusting-things-have-you-had-cut-off-your-body/460005.md?page=2)