Are your skin tags getting smaller and no new ones?

(Becky) #14

In the two years prior to Keto, I visited the dermatologist twice to have 4-6 skin tags removed each time, as well as a mole on my neck. I was about to schedule my next visit for another 4-6 tags and a mole growing on my face. After the initial phases of Keto had settled, I remembered I needed to make the appointment, only I couldn’t feel the mole on my face nor the location of the skin tags. I believe Keto healed skin tags and moles.

(CharleyD) #15

Been pretty strict keto since 1/1/17, not diabetic, no meds of that persuasion. Just obese to near normal now. And NMRs (only taken this year) have always had me at borderline Insulin resistant. I’m well appreciative of autophagy cosmetically in that there isn’t any hanging skin considering the amount of weight lost. I’m very impressed with the inward and outward manifestations of healing that this WOE presents!
I’ll KCKO of course!

#16

I first noticed skin tags with my first pregnancy 15+ years ago, and have had a few ever since. Once a doctor mentioned using vitamin E oil on them. I tried it on one, and it worked but it started bleeding and wouldn’t quit despite applying pressure. I actually had to go to the urgent care and have them put a bandage with a clotting agent in it on to get it to stop. (I actually have tried the oil on other ones in spite of that experience and it did nothing, so not sure what is up with that?)

I have noticed that slowly, very slowly, the ones I currently have are getting smaller. This past couple of weeks there has been increased improvement, probably because the last couple weeks I have been able to keep my blood glucose lower than I have since starting keto. Definitely going to take that as a good sign that my insulin is lowering too.

(Doug) #17

If autophagy is working when fasting, then skin tags would be an obvious target…

(Todd Allen) #18

I had half a dozen skin tags before keto and now am down to 3. Haven’t noticed any shrinkage but at least they aren’t growing. The ones that are gone were the smallest/skinniest and they abraded off as opposed to shrinking away. I’d like to get the bigger remaining ones cut off as I doubt they will go away on their own, but haven’t bothered to have them removed yet.

(VLC.MD) #19

Anyone with a steady hand can do it.
Just use something like this.

Use tweezers to pull up (when you can) to make the cutting easier (sometimes).

They bleed, but put pressure on it for 8 minutes without peeking and it’ll be fine.

Pro Tips:

  • the smaller you open the scissors, the less like you are to cut off (“pinch”) too much (ie. surrounding skin).

Use the money you save to buy more bacon.

(Todd Allen) #20

Funny, I asked my primary care physician about removing them and he said it wasn’t something he was able to do but he could give me a referral to a dermatologist.

(VLC.MD) #21

Waste of time and money.
Low risk and requires zero skill.

Don’t cut off black things.
Skin tags hang off the skin … I’ve never seen a serious skin condition that does it.
DIY !

(Brian) #22

Anybody ever try tying a knot around the offending tag with dental floss and just pull the two ends? Basically, pinch it off? I’ve heard about doing that but have never tried it.

(VLC.MD) #23

It can work if it has a really tiny stalk. I’m too impatient to wait. Worth a try though.

(Mel Soule) #24

Cryo works well, at least for me. My internist took a weekend course and became certified. Killed the little beasts in under 10 minutes.

(Todd Allen) #25

Supposedly there are many benefits to autophagy. Maybe I should just chew them off?

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #26

Mine were burned off in my dr.'s office with a laser, 10 in various sizes, one was always causing me problems. Was totally worth it. My sister also gets them and she ties thin nylon thread around the base, tightens it, and in a couple of days they fall off. You might try that. Not sure I would want to DYI any cutting.

Glad to know skin tags are much more common than I thought. So glad we are stopping them from growing larger and hopefully preventing more. Over a year now and no new ones for me, that is a great result. I was starting a farm of them before adjusting my eating and cleaning them up. :woman_farmer:t2:

(VLC.MD) #27

They are probably low carb.
If it fits into your macros then I say go for it.
:sunglasses:

(Marie Dantoni) #28

Right up till this morning I had one on my cheek. It had been getting smaller and was drying out, but it still wasn’t giving up. I went to pull off the dry bit with my fingers and the whole thing came off. Made my day !

(Patrick) #29

I’m going to watch the skin tags I have, I started keto 6 weeks ago.

(VLC.MD) #30

Take tag selfies ! Before and after !

(Consensus is Politics) #31

I hadn’t thought about those little buggers in a long time. I’ve got dozens. I’ll have to keep close track of them. I have one on my waistline, that was about the size of a lintel. It got all twisted up under my belt (I assume that’s why) and it began to burn. I had a bit of a belly on me so I could just barely see over it to see what was causing it. But I could see something red. So into the bathroom, see in the mirror. I had what looked like a cherry tomato growing out of my waist. My first thought was someone played a trick on me by throwing bits of salad at me. But how did they glue it on? Then I remembered there was a skin tag there. Then I noticed that it’s stalk was twisted around a few times. I thumped it with my finger hoping it would just fall off, but instead it just unwound. A minute later all the blood that was trapped in it was absorbed back whence it came. I had the giggles about it for about an hour. I keep checking that Little guy to make sure he isn’t fruiting again. I didn’t want him to ripen up and fall off without me knowing first😂

As for things shrinking off… the past few days I have began to think that a colony of moles I have were shrinking. There are located very close to a place that will prevent me from taking pictures. Just close enough. These are dark brown moles. The kind you might see on the back of the neck of a guy at the buffet, and your 4 year old can’t quit commenting about the guy with mushrooms on his neck. Meanwhile you are pointing at the salads… yes those mushrooms look good.

These have bothered me in the past. Since they are on the southern side of my tummy I couldn’t actually see them directly :roll_eyes: but I can now :cowboy_hat_face: . They feel much smaller. I had been worried about them because I was afraid they could be malignant. But while at the urologist a while back I asked the nurse to look at them. When I said where, she just smiled and agreed. I felt like a perv, but she said not to worry, they were just common moles. But watch for sudden changes.

(Doug) #32

I cut skin tags off with nail clippers.

(Consensus is Politics) #33

I’ve been holding this in for a few weeks now. No offense Doug, and I mean this in a cool geek kinda way, that avatar you use reminds me of Max Headroom😎