Since I was out of work earlier this week (I’m actually starting back with a half shift today), I was trying to get a lot of maintenance stuff done. One of these things was going to the dermatologist.
My old dermatologist is no longer practicing at the Kaiser I go to, so I had a new doctor. Normally, I see the dermatologist once a year at the end of summer to get my moles checked for skin cancer (if you don’t do this, please consider doing it this year).
But this appointment wasn’t for something as glamorous as mole checks. This was for a wart on my face.
Yup, a wart.
It’s not as gross as it sounds. You can sometimes see it on my chin in pictures, but I can cover it up with makeup pretty well if I want. But it really hurts so I want it gone. I’ve had it frozen off once in 2001, but now it’s back.
So I go in for my appointment in what looks to be the scariest room ever.
I’m shocked that when they took my blood pressure in this room it still came back normal!
I met with my new dermatologist, who’s very nice and willing to explain everything to me (as I always have a million questions). He gave me my treatment options: freezing or burning it off which has about a 70% success rate or having it cut out which has a 90% success rate.
Since it’s on my face, I said that if I was going to have it cut out, I wanted a plastic surgeon to do it. He agreed and said that that is what he would want me to do anyway.
I’m not exactly sure what I want to do. Freezing or burning leaves less of a scar, but I’m still unclear about how bad the scar would be. I left that doctor’s appointment with a referral to plastics, and I’m waiting on them to call me to set up my appointment.
So I’m turning to you, blog readers. Anyone have any experience with having a wart surgically removed? I don’t want a huge scar on my face, but I don’t want to have to deal with this again. I really don’t know what to do.
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