>Carol, where are your skin tags?  I have a lot of them on my neck and I'm
>chicken to cut them off, as my internist suggested.  I had one on my
eye lid for several months and it was very ugly.  One day I
>brushed it accidentally and it was painful for about 5 days, then fell off.

Does no one else *tie off* skin tags?  I've taken to pulling tiny ones
off with my fingers, tho that makes them bleed.  But larger ones I
just tie off very tightly like a lamb's tail.  No knot, just a simple
overhand that I can pull even tighter when I'm bored.  After a few
days, the skin tag turns black, then falls off along with the thread
(dental floss works too).  No bleeding, no rawness, no expense, and I
imagine virtually no infection risk.

I even had one among my eyelashes that I tied off with a piece of
lash-matching thread, with the ends cut to lash length.  A day of
panic, when I realized I couldn't get the thread off even if I wanted
to, and what would an ophthalmologist think if I showed up to have it
cut off.  But of course it blackened and fell off on its own just like
the others.

I know if I'd gone to a dermatologist or other specialist with that
one, the cure would have been both expensive and uncomfortable.  The
home treatment involved a simple piece of thread and a few days of
mild entertainment.  If *I* were the nipple skin tag woman, I know
*just* what I'd do...

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY