Do you have moles?

touch them, no way not that I'm afraid of them, just don't touch things like that if I can avoid it

Well, I've had, as I've previously posted, about 10 already removed. I assure you, that I have more than 10 moles left. I had most of these removed at the recommendation of a doctor. I just a week ago had a spot frozen on my face, but it wasn't a mole. I might be a bit more jumpy about spots and stuff because I already have enough, and because my friend, my mother and one of my cats have all had different kinds of skin cancer.

I had a job that I had to handle lots of paper from various places &, in the process, got a LOT of warts on my hands. I had 2 when I started & pretty soon I had about 30, most quite small, but a couple very painful. I went to the doctor & he tried freezing them off. That hurt &, after the alotted time, only about 3 came off. Then my insurance changed & I changed doctors. He told me about this medicine they shot into the wart &, after a few weeks it falls off. We tried that. It didn't feel good getting over 20 shots on both hands, but after a week the ones that hurt stopped, after 3 weeks they started dropping off. I had another couple of warts taken off by a skin man many years later & I had one that I, totally accidently (as bad as it hurt I'd've never done it intentionally,) sliced off. My sister was talking about going to a foot doctor to get a planters wart off her foot, like had been done when she was in middleschool. I told her about the shot. She went to the doctor & talked about the shot, got sent to a skin guy & got the shots, in her case. She said that, while the shot hurt when she got it, that was the ONLY time in the process it hurt, unlike the previous time.

Most doctors don't like to remove them unless they feel they are "suspicious" or could become a problem. If your doctor knows about it & says its fine, then I would not concern myself about it.

I would have a skin doctor look at them. Most of mine have been removed at the recommendion of doctors.

Lets see, I've had 4 off my back, 2 my arm, 2 my chest(just below my neck), one on the back of my neck, one on my face, that doesn't count the "blood moles" and skin tags I've had removed. That makes 10 removed & that barely scratchs the surface, so to speak, of my mole count! I still have 2 large ones on my face, over 10 on my arms, one on my stomach near my left hip, one on my left palm, a few small ones still on my chest, one on a toe & I have no idea how many on my back - for some reason I can't see back there! LOL But the one I hated the most on my chin is gone & so is the one on the back of my neck that caught on tags so until a doctor tells me to have others removed, I'm happy.

I always let the doctor tell me, but the one on my chin & the ones on the back of my neck I really wanted off (especially the big one that kept catching tags.) After I nearly pulled one off with a necklace the GP sent me to the skin guy to get the ones off my neck.

I had a skin tag & a "blood mole" removed because they were being rubbed by my bra.

Flat is good. I have a slightly raised one on the top of my foot, right next to a toe - small, but there. Most of mine are slightly raised, but have been since I was a small child. I've had a few that after nagging I went to a skin screening that the dr looking at it briefly suggested having off. I'm only in my 50's, my mom played golf for years and has had 3 skin cancers - the other 2 kinds than melanoma - taken off her face in her 70's. I rode horses for around 10 yrs in my teens mostly, she played golf for about 40....

When I moved into my house, the previous people left a chart on the inside of one of the doors about moles. I have kept it. They say that if they change in anyway, are irregular, 2 or more colors or change then to have them checked out. I went with my first visit because one mole had become irregular & 2 colors. He also didn't like the looks of a second mole & took that one off too.

all of mine have been covered by insurance so I don't know. The job might've sucked, but the insurance was great.

well, they didn't have sun screen when I was a kid, or even back in the earlyish '70's when I got my one bad burn. So I watch mine pretty well, & the ones on my back I have someone else check periodically.

That's what I say, and my doctor too.

my sister has a mole in a simular place, but its not colored & she's not bothered by it. my neice has a large few non-colored moles on her neck that I would probably be getting off because they'd catch on things - maybe she will when she gets older.

The actual removal only takes a few minutes. They give you a shot to deaden the area (the most painful part of the process) then cut it off & then cauterize it to stop the bleeding. The long part is the healing - and most people heal much faster than I do & I was totally better in a month. The only time you take off is the office visit. I tried to have the one taken off my chin when I was a teen, but it came back - the skin guy says that happens when you are still growing. He also said I'd probably have to have electrolisis to remove the hairs since they grow from deeper than the mole. (I did that about 7 yrs ago.) It did hurt some healing, but more like a scrape or burn, it wasn't that deep a wound.