Well I can laugh about it now - but last night - I of course waited until like 11PM to do it - this after getting up at 2am to go to work - I was in tears - also VERY helpful when doing something with your eyes.
I SO want to just snip the damn thing off with a nail clipper - but what if it bleeds like crazy and I can't see to go to the emergency room ??? Plus - I'm SOOOOOOOO tired - what with all the fun and drama LAST night - lol !!!!!!

Oh yeah - I didn't have thread so pulled some off a tank top that was losing the hem !!!!

The things us women will do! haha ... I want to get rid of the ones under my eyes. I have had them for yeeeeears! And I have some on my neck and one under my right armpit. My dr back in highschool tried that dried ice. I dont know what he expected to accomplish with that stuff but it did NOTHING for me. I really do hate them. And its not like I have one or two I have sooo many under each eye

I had the doctor remove one from my back (not like I could have snipped that one myself, even if I'd wanted to - and I was single and living alone at the time. Can you imagine going to the cute neighbor with that one? Hey, could you cut the growth from my lower back for me?

Anyway, it was right at the waistband area, and I found out that the only thing worse than a skin tag under your waistband, is a raw wound from where a skin tag was removed (it was so big, the doctor had to put in a single stitch).

Well I may just be stuck with it for a while. Like I don't have enough things to be insecure about - bald - ugly - overweight ......... I'm getting bummed out now - wish I could have a glass of wine - always knocks me out - but just started Flutamide and its a no no. :cry:

Dont get me started on the hair loss! Ugh! I hate it! All my beautiful hair is gone. Will it ever grow back? Does that ever go away? My step mom was walking around the house today laughing because she said watch your my age your going to be bald. Thaaaanks! Thats not helping me one bit!

Well I have no idea how long mine has been thinning - my NP thinks it may be from the fairly rapid weight loss and/or my stress (had a "nervous breakdown" of sorts this past winter). I have been doing a lot of research on it and have started using Nioxin and got my endo to let me try flutamide. It is a strong anti androgen that many women have had success with in terms of head hair growing back and/or excess hair slowing down. Been on Spiro for years and that doesn't seem to help. Nioxin seems to remove the DHT in your hair follicles that stops hair growth. I'll try anything. No one else has noticed but my hair used to be SO thick. It is an overall thinning at this point but now everytime I see a loose hair on my shirt or whatever I flip. Just pulled some out of the drain and got sick (see - that anxiety is SO under control) - probably close to a weeks worth so I really shouldn't be flipping out. I just can't deal - hair where you don't want it and lack of hair where you do. Same with fat - hate it on my belly but need it on my butt - the treadmill has totally killed my once curvy bottom.

I talked to my dr. and they are having go on birth control. But I havent had the chance to go get it because my insurance doesnt cover it so I have to pay for it. Sucks because I talked to my dr. about trying other things and she said that we have to start there. I took bc from the time I was 13 (because of my unbalance hormones not because of other reasons lol) up until I was 18 and after that I left my house so I was no longer under my dads insurance. Now that I have to use my crappy insurance they dont cover much. And I wanted to use the vaniqa cream also but thats 80 bucks a pop for just one small tube. I dont have that kind of money. But I want to do something about all this hair :(

Birth control to help regulate your cycles ???? Dunno - you should research that more. It can mess up so many other things - seriously check out that site.

I am on Metformin for the diabetes and insulin resistance
Spiro for the PCOS
Flutamide for the PCOS
Blood pressure meds, mood stabilzer and anxiety meds, cholesterol med,

Trying to knock some of them back. My diabetes is basically gone - not a true medical possibility I know but my tests show me in the non-diabetic range so I am reducing my Metformin myself.

The hair has never been a HUGE issue with me - I am very fair skinned and it does show when I'm not careful - but since the weightloss it DOES seem to have slowed down.

Goodness, the things we will do! I too had THOUGHT of tieing a string around a nasty tag but ended up having it "frozen".

I read somewhere a thing to TAKE to prevent the buggers from developing.... chromian picolinate. Been taking it now for several years... haven't developed any more tags...worth a try!;)

I have these skin tags too, I hate them :(

Under my eye, on my eyelid, the crease in my arm, under my arm... on my neck, god knows where else (there's a lot of me to check!)

Once I meet my goal weight I'm going to go have them all done in one shot LOL

Hmmm - that is worth a try. I can say I don't seem to be getting any new ones since gettimg my blood sugars and therefore my IR under control.

My dr. said birth control is where to start and then they are going to see about getting me on some other stuff. And its for the PCOS. I dont understand what that will do for me. I dont know why we have to start there

I was also on birth control for hormonal reasons, long before i needed it for the purpose for which it was intended, though I was in my 20's when I started (wished I had a lot earlier). I had my first period at about age 9 or 10 (I got it a few days before the girls in my 4th grade class were to see the educational film - that the boys weren't allowed to see. They had to go to recess, and some of them tried to peek in the windows, but the shades were drawn). From the very start, I had a 24-25 day cycle with extremely heavy 8 - 9 day periods with severe cramping for 4 - 6 days of it. Yikes!!! The cramps would be so bad, I would literally not only have to stay home in bed for up to 3 days, but I'd wish for death during most of it! Heating pads, OTC pain meds (I was in so much pain, my mom in desperation gave me tea with whiskey to see if it would help - didn't!), nothing worked except narcotics (which no doctor would prescribe, so I was just out of luck). When prescription ibuprofen came out, that would help if I started taking it before the period started. At about 24, I was prescribed birth control pills and they were literally a life saver. A 28 day cycle with a 5 day period and only 1 day of cramping (still mad PMS, but a blessing just the same). Now I'm stacking BC (eliminating the placebo week for 3 months at a time), and I'm finally able to avoid regaining every month (due to the binging during placebo week - also known as meat week in our house, because I crave beef and lots of it, and sometimes chocolate, which I normally don't care for - yes, I know that's weird).

Yep, there are risks, but for me they're worth it. I don't know what I'd do without them.

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Back on the topic of skin tags, I first started getting these when I was in junior high. Is this normally part of the whole PCOS thing? I have some symptoms of PCOS, but not all. I have never been diagnosed, though I have been diagnosed insulin resistant.

Great info, thanks ladies! I've been noticing a few small ones and figured it was part of getting o-o-, uh, no longer young, LOL;) I had a friend (an OLDER friend) who told me about them a few years ago. Till then I had no idea what skin tags were.

So far mine aren't anywhere that shows or bugs me. Good luck to you gals trying to get rid of them. I'll ask my Dr. to zap 'em if they get to be a problem.

Yes - a good number of women with PCOS seem to get skin tags - it seems to be related to Diabetes and IR - which seem to go hand in hand with PCOS. I have noticed that I have not gotten any new ones since I got my blood sugar under control.

I'm sorry about your killer periods and glad bc has worked for you. I have not had a period since I was in my late twenties to early thirties - but when I DID have them they were horrible. Major cramping - like unable to work - stomach issues, diahrea, back pain, headaches and extremely heavy flow with clotting. I would literally use two of the giant overnight pads and wear two or three pairs of underwear and I would still get leaking. UGH - sorry TMI. I do NOT miss that but it feels weird to not have my period - kind of like I'm missing part of being a woman.