Mole removal?

I have pretty dark skin and several moles on my skin also, mostly on my back but one my arm and one on my chest. And I wouldn't mind parting with them. I don't really think they look bad, per se, but I'd just rather see them go for aesthetic and potential health reasons, probably 3 or 4 total.

Has anybody ever removed any moles before? Do those things that you can buy in the stores (those little "freeze" things) actually work or should I see a dermatologist? How expensive would it be for some doctor to do the little procedure?

Err my mom got one taken off her foot....and she wants me to get one off my back....they can do laser shit I know that...not sure how expensive...

yeah, i don't think it's a big procedure or anything. i wonder what sort of scar those kinda things leave?
you should ask yer ma about it for me. :p

Lol....well....the one of her foot was like unhealthy lol idk how to describe it, not like it looked nasty or anything but yeah....and no scar really after a while....its been about 3 or 4 years...

Those freeze solutions you buy at the drugstore are mostly intended for warts.

A mole, or a nevus, as it's properly called, needs to be taken off by a doctor so he/she can send it for pathological evaluation. They can excise a mole by essentially shaving it off, or remove it surgically with some surrounding tissue if it looks suspicious. Or freeze or burn it off, but their cryo-procedure (freezing) is different from that Freezone wart remover. That's basically an acid that burns warts off. It doesn't leave a bad scar at all. It'll be pink for a time and then fade to white. And it's not a painful procedure.

I had a little brown mole removed from my neck. My husband loved it. He called it a love spot. But I hated it. It itched and I sometimes scraped it with the comb when my hair was longer. Now you can't even tell anything was ever there. It was very small. I'm not a very moley person. But I'm glad I had that one taken off.

dr. birdgirl arrives on the scene. :)
how expensive do you think it would be to get, say, 4 moles removed?
i have like 150 moles on my body but almost all of them are very small, like pinhead-sized and barely noticeable. but i have about a half-dozen that are either raised and/or inconsistently colored.

Do you have insurance? I'm guessing the fee-for-service price would be about $150 apiece, which would include the excision and pathological examination, but I might be totally wrong about that. The one I had done was many years ago, and I think they charged my insurance $65, but prices have gone way up since then.

i've had one removed in the way birdgirl said and it left a scar and it's not too big and doesn't really bother me any. it was on like my side above my hip bone.

I had one next to my twig n berries removed when I was about 10 or 11, as you can imagine I was a bit nervious about any work in that area involving a razor, but it was pretty quick and painless (my whole junk was numb....kinda strange feeling).

I have another mole on my head kind of where my sideburns are at, I want to get it removed because EVERY FUCKING TIME I go to get a hair cut they nick it with the damn electric clippers....one idiot must have thought I couldn't feel it because she continued to hit it as if it would cut off from the shaver, I had to tell her to stop. As much as I want that one removed my mom keeps telling me it will screw up my hair and probably leave a bald patch. Does anybody know if that is true? The other mole I had removed is now covered with pubes but it's also been some years since I had that taken off.

I believe they are good to get removed because they can be cancerous, skin cancer runs in my family and my sister has already had a couple cancerous moles removed so that makes me pretty nervious.

i removed one on my wrist by burning it while at a campfire about 3 years ago. left a scar. about a year ago, it showed signs of showing up again, so i burned it again with a match. now its just an unoticable faded white patch. im happy with the result but i feel like i probly shouldnt have done it for some reason.