# Who's had stuff frozen off their bodies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007 "2016-02-03T00:34:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007/21 "2016-02-04T18:17:50Z")
I skip the doctor and just buy dry ice from the grocery store. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007/22 "2016-02-04T22:58:56Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > I did a Polar Plunge this weekend, & after getting out made [del]snow.[/del] ice angels in just a bathing suit & flip flops; does that count? :eek: šŸ˜ƒ Only if you froze your ass off. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007/23 "2016-02-04T23:08:37Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Only if you froze your ass off. There will be no future Spiderkids as Iā€™ve had them cryogenically removed. Yup, new meaning to ā€œsnow ballsā€. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007/24 "2016-02-05T00:09:36Z")
lots of stuff frozen off. I ran around barefoot all the time in Florida, so many plantar warts frozen off. Works a treat. Half a dozen possibly-pre-cancerous things when I was in my 20s. All very easy. (Since then, both of my parents have had multiple serious skin cancers, so everything I get now is biopsied and run by a pathologist.) ---
**Author:** ![diggerwam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@diggerwam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggerwam)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007/25 "2016-02-05T12:17:05Z")
Skin tags in armpits, very uncomfortable for a couple weeks. Worst part, doc called it cosmetic and I had to pay full price. It wasnā€™t cosmetic, they actually bothered me but they didnā€™t have a code for that. After a handful, they are starting to bother me again. Maybe my wife can do some of the worse ones. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007/26 "2016-02-07T01:23:57Z")
Some warts when I was kid. Hurt like fucking hell. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007/27 "2016-02-07T03:47:23Z")
Iā€™m not sure this freezing worked. I didnā€™t feel much when she did it. Just felt like an ice cube corner, she sprayed a swab for several seconds and applied that to my cheek. It peeled a small spot yesterday, but itā€™s been peeling in cycles weekly or so since I noticed it. Itā€™s typical of actinic keratosis to do that. Seems a little thicker and maybe more sensitive now. The freezing was Tuesday. Maybe something will still happen, but she said to call her in a week if it didnā€™t seem successful. Pretty sure Iā€™ll need to call. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007/28 "2016-02-07T05:32:34Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > Iā€™ve a couple of times frozen off a plantar wart myself, as follows: > > 1. Get a thermos bottle full of liquid nitrogen (costs me $5) > 2. Attach a long handle (thin wooden stick) to a Q-tip > 3. Dip Q tip in liquid nitrogen > 4. Apply to wart until it starts to hurt > 5. Repeat steps 3 & 4 about 10 times > 6. Store thermos in freezer for 20 minutes > 7. Again, repeat steps 3 & 4 about 10 times > 8. Done > > When youā€™re doing this to yourself, you get an effective cure without any need for the pain ever to be excessive. I did the same thing myself, once, but instead of liquid nitrogen I just got some dry ice at Baskin Robins. They just gave it to me, because theyā€™d never sold it before, and didnā€™t know the price. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-had-stuff-frozen-off-their-bodies/745007.md?page=1)