Mohs Procedure

[p911dad]

Re: Stitch removal. Keep the stitches moist with Aquaphor or Vaseline, it helps the PA when she or he clips and eases out the outer stitches with tweezers. The inner stitches are in my experience left in to dissolve on their own sweet time (keeps the wound together). Usually quick and painless.

[KFC911]

Always use the good stuff ... I remember my last one specifically told me not to use Vaseline (or WD40 ) but Polysporin, etc. instead ...

[Bill Verburg]

My surgeon has always recommended Aquaphor, but the last few times added Hydrocolloid patches.

Apparently, you need to be careful w/ these as they are great for the wound but not so great for surrounding skin, so you trim them to be as small as possible and shaped to cover just the wound.

[HobieMarty]

The stitches were removed this morning. Hope this thing heals up well and doesn't leave a huge scar but, I'm okay with it.

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[Brian 162]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

The stitches were removed this morning. Hope this thing heals up well and doesn't leave a huge scar but, I'm okay with it.

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My wife went through it twice. She had a scar similar to yours on her right cheek. A year later you can barely see the scar.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

The stitches were removed this morning. Hope this thing heals up well and doesn't leave a huge scar but, I'm okay with it.

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I'm truly sorry. I hope you can find the courage to appear in public again.



Honestly, women are going to find this hot.

[HobieMarty]

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[speeder]

You're a young looking guy, Marty! And the rest of the skin on your face looks healthy, not damaged. I'm a pale, blue eyed guy, (had freckles when younger), like most of us here, I spent was too much time in the sun when younger. For many years now, however, I try to avoid too much direct sunlight on my skin because the sun is very powerful here in SoCal and I can't take it anymore.

I've had about a thousand pre-cancerous spots frozen off in the last 40 years but no real skin cancer yet. It's coming, I'm 100% sure, unless I die soon. When I switched dermatologists a few years back because my old one retired, they asked me if there was any history of skin cancer in my family. I think that I blurted out, "are you ****ing kidding me?" We are Irish people from a land where it rains half the year and my parents were sun worshippers before the dangers were fully understood. Tons of skin cancer, just fortunately not melanoma, (which is of course survivable if caught in time).

Best of luck and that scar will disappear fast, it already looks pretty healed.

[KFC911]

Ya gotta come up with a good "bar fight story" now !

[HobieMarty]

I'm 60 years old.
I've told people at work that I fell down and bumped my head after having way too much bourbon, thank goodness I had my life alert or else I would still be laying there.

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[Brian 162]

Originally Posted by HobieMarty

I'm 60 years old.
I've told people at work that I fell down and bumped my head after having way too much bourbon, thank goodness I had my life alert or else I would still be laying there.

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My wife said she you should have seen the other girl.

[HobieMarty]

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[DRONE]

Mine started out as a small bump below my left cheek it blossomed into a quarter sized open wound before I got an appointment, during my surgery they had to opened it up to a half dollar size before giving the surgeon the all clear. I cannot even see the scar now.

Marty looks like you fought Lord Voldemort

[porsche tech]

One of mine they called “secondary intention”…meaning no stitches because there’s not enough skin to pull it together. I think that one was down by my ankle…no scar there either.

[speeder]

Ok, this is starting to look like a page full of medical horrors…maybe a trigger warning is in order.

[gacook]

Timely thread...wife just got checked out last week. After biopsy, it's basal carcinoma (I probably said that wrong). She's getting MOHS done on the 25th.

[NY65912]

I've had a few things shaved off my hairless scalp. Main thing is that they got it removed.

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by speeder

Ok, this is starting to look like a page full of medical horrors…maybe a trigger warning is in order.

But it did remind me to renew my subscription to “Skin Disease Illustrated.”

[gacook]

Originally Posted by speeder

Ok, this is starting to look like a page full of medical horrors…maybe a trigger warning is in order.

Honest question...no harm or judgment intended. Do the pictures of minor skin wounds in this thread really bother some people?

[pavulon]

Originally Posted by gacook

Honest question...no harm or judgment intended. Do the pictures of minor skin wounds in this thread really bother some people?

mere flesh wounds!