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mole removal
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I've got to have a mole removed this week that looks really dodgy, so naturally i'm freaking out.Anyway, if any of you have had moles removed can you tell me how long the anesthetic lasts and how did you feel in general afterwards? Thanks!
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At our surgery we have a minor surgery clinic once a month and the GP just whips it off in two seconds flat, the nurse dabs it with some solution and you're off home.
Are you having it in hospital?
Seriously, don't worry about it! You'll feel a little nick and that'll be it, but the area is bound to feel sore - like when you've grazed your arm or had an injection.
they will use an anaesthetic if it's not a raised mole, and they have to cut into the skin. that's what happened with mine.
it was a little sore when they injected the local anaesthetic, but after then it didn't hurt at all, even when the anaesthetic wore off. i kept waiting for it to start hurting, but it never did. took about 15 minutes, all together, and was nowhere near as bad as i thought.
it healed nicely, with a couple of stitches, and now you can barely see where it was.
(sorry i'm such a stresshead when it comes to things like this) how long do the stitches have to stay in for and when you go back to have them taken out is that when they tell you if anything is wrong with the mole?
I can't remember what they said about what was wrong with the mole, but that was because I had the stitches taken out at my local GP's whereas I had the mole taken out in a hospital. I think we got a letter through the post telling me what they'd found.
mine stayed in for a week. i went on holiday the day after i had it done, so i had the stitches taken out at the hospital where i was staying.
i remember it taking quite a while for them to get the test results back though, it could even have been a month. but my doctors have a 'no news is good news' policy, and only ring you if your tests come back abnormal, so the results could have been in a long time before i got them.