INR and Mole Removal

[perkicar]

I am going to the dermatologist on Friday to have a mole removed, not the freeze it off type but actually shaved off and biopsied. It is probably 1/2 cm across.
When I talked to the nurse she didn't seem to think I needed to worry about my INR, although I am trying to get it back down into therapeutic range (last week it was 4.9, but that's another story.

any and all opinions are welcome, I'm going to call my cardio tomorrow and see what they think.

Thanks--Carolyn

 

[geebee]

Had the same thing a few years back. They shaved it, zapped it and then put a pressure bandage on. No problems at all.

 

[Natanni]

Hi Carolyn

I am going to have my husband see the surgeon I used to assist to have a suspicious mole removed (smaller than a pea, and flat). My husband will stay on on his warfarin and he was consistantly 2.6 for months until starting Crestor which brought it up to 3.2. This surgeon was not concerned about his INR. While sometimes these moles can get deeper in the skin, hubby's is more superficial and will be only a bit more of tedious with coumadin, requiring some extra pressure at the end of tje procedure (several minutes, up to half hour) and pressure bandages.

 

[Karlynn]

I had one removed on my face (which can bleed quite a bit). The dr. just excised it and then cauterized the area. I had no problems and it healed well.

 

[csutherland]

Jerry has had lots of moles/skin cancers taken off his lips, nose, ears, head. The only problem was the last one--on the top of the ear and on the same day his INR had gone up over 4. (Don't remember exactly what). I don't think even that would've been a problem but tightly bandaging the top of an ear is almost impossible! It wasn't an emergency or anything, just messy.

 

[bvdr]

Carolyn, I had Mohs surgery on my upper lip for squamous cell cancer without coming off coumadin and had no problem. I hope all goes well for you and your bx comes back negative.

 

[Guest]

Even if you are up all night changing bandages, how would that compare with the inconvenience of wrecking your valve or being unable to feed yourself for the rest of your life?

 

[perkicar]

Even if you are up all night changing bandages, how would that compare with the inconvenience of wrecking your valve or being unable to feed yourself for the rest of your life?

Yikes, when you put it that way!!!!
I just want to be prepared so THEY don't freak out when I go to have it done. As it happens, I'm going to the INR clinic that day anyway, so I'll know my current INR when I get checked. I'd MUCH rather change bandages than put myself of my valve in danger.

 

[tommy]

Best wishes on the biospy!

I've had several moles shaved off while on Coumadin. The doc used a silver cauterizing method. It works about 90%. Still a little oozing, but not bad.

 

[Ross]

Bring it to me, I'll bite it off!

 

[Marty]

I am going to the dermatologist on Friday to have a mole removed, not the freeze it off type but actually shaved off and biopsied. It is probably 1/2 cm across.
When I talked to the nurse she didn't seem to think I needed to worry about my INR, although I am trying to get it back down into therapeutic range (last week it was 4.9, but that's another story.

any and all opinions are welcome, I'm going to call my cardio tomorrow and see what they think.

Thanks--Carolyn[/QUOTE

A couple of years ago I had a mole on my abdomen shaved off and stayed on Coumadin @ INR 3.5. I got a call from the dermatologist a few days later that it was a malignant melanoma. He asked me to come in for wide excision but stay on Coumadin. He did a quite deep wide elliptical excision. I had no problems post op and so far no sign of metastasis.

 

[perkicar]

Bring it to me, I'll bite it off!

youch!!!!

only if you inject some lidocaine first!!!!

Are you sure you're not a vampire????? LOL

 

[perkicar]

Update--mole removal

Update--mole removal

Got the offending seborrheic keratoses (official medical term) removed today. No problems, and having gotten my INR checked an hour before that appointment, (it was 3.1), they didn't seem to concerned.
However, when she looked me over, she took off another mole on my back that she thought looked like a basal cell carcinoma. However, she took it all off so thought that that was it. I'll get the biopsy results back next week sometime.
Glad that's over with! Sorry you won't get to bite it off, Ross

 

[Ross]

Anything to deny me pleasure huh?

 

[Guest]

Picture Mary Poppins singing

Supra dermal seborrheic hyperkeratosis
If you say it fast enough it really sounds atrocious
Supradermalseborrheichyperkeratosis

 

[perkicar]

Anything to deny me pleasure huh?

If bringing me pain gives you pleasure I'm kind of creeped out LOL Or were you going to give me some lidocaine before you nipped me????

 

[perkicar]

Picture Mary Poppins singing

Supra dermal seborrheic hyperkeratosis
If you say it fast enough it really sounds atrocious
Supradermalseborrheichyperkeratosis

You're crazy LOL!

 

[Ross]

If bringing me pain gives you pleasure I'm kind of creeped out LOL Or were you going to give me some lidocaine before you nipped me????

Oh no, my saliva acts as an anesthetic. No need for Lidocaine.

 

[Guest]

Is a sadist a person who does nice things to a masochist?

 

[jeffp]

You guys are just plain WIERD!