How to rid myself of skin tags at home?

They are on my neck. They are usually removed at the doctor's using a numbing cream and sharp scissors. It is rather silly to pay $80 for 15 to be removed and $40 for every 10 tags.

How to rid myself of skin tags at home?
Tie a peice of thread tightly around the base of the tag. It will cut off the blood supply and the skin tag will just fall off. It takes a day or so but it really works.
Reply:Dear I wannago:


Yes, skin tags are quite cumbersome, ugly, and certainly expensive to get rid of...


The best method is to take them all off in a single session with liquid nitrogen, used by a dermatoligist ...expensive?


Perhaps, but that depends on the part of the Country in which you live....


You see, surgery at home, has at least two risks in your case: the first one is incomplete excision, (Language)espacially if you are using fine scissors, even cuticle scissors.....and the tags will return in no time.


The second is local infection ( no matter how well you wash and disinfect your surgical tools).


The best idea is to ask from your physician to take them all off in a single sesion, and to provide you with a corticoid cream to a void re-appearence of such spots or tags (lesions)...
Reply:i use "freeze away" wart remover. it works.
Reply:I suggest going to the doctor, anyway, even though it may seem unneccesarily expensive. Here are the reasons: Infection, even if you are careful, there is a much greater chance of infection doing it yourself; Improper removal, in which it could actually be worsened; Scarring, ugly scar if you take off too much; If there was some unpredictable bleeding that couldn't be stopped as planned, a more expensive trip to the hospital; Lack of knowledge, what if one was cancerous? You'd want to know so you could be sure it was looked at, and you had proper follow up, but if you remove it yourself, you wouldn't know, and might not catch the possible skin cancer before it gets worse. Better safe than sorry, especially when it comes to medical procedures, even minor ones.
Reply:Actually yes Tulscif has the general idea there!





To aid yourself in the pain free department through try putting on a general over the counter cream onto your skin tag %26amp; then try clipping it off.





Be warned, doing it on your own maybe really painful!!





Ambesol for adults is a great freezing gel, cream or liquid, I used it last Jan for a root canal %26amp; when it acccidently got onto my fingers it froze them for at least 5 minutes each time.