Tags

By a tag do you mean extra skin by the rectum?
Richard.

I've been given 2 different definitions of what the tags are.
My k pouch surgeon burns them because he says that they are an excroissance of skin or tissue (means it is a sort of granulation of tissue cells that keep multiplying)...so I have silver nitrate sticks that I use to keep burning them back or they become the size of rice grains and bleed a lot.
My old GP here said that they are like warts, a virus and that they need to be treated like warts...she gave me a homeopathic remedy that is natural drops...30 days later ...they started to dissapear!
(the drops are from the drug company Lerring )....
No other advice.
Sharon

yes it is like a skin tag that some people have on their neck or face but just a little bigger. what type of drops do you use from drug store for tags? On my next visit to the surgeon I will ask him. Thanks for answers

The pharmaceutical lab is named Lehning and the product is called Thuya...composition number is 37.
You can probably order it over the net or through a homeopathic pharmacy.
I just finished a bottle (I take 20 drops morning & night).
When home this summer I picked up both plantar warts and body warts (horible, rough and big...on my body and skin tags on my neck) probably from my friends niece who has very bad ones that she never treats...(yuck).
Anyway...I used compound W on the big ones + this stuff...all of them are now gone even the ones that I had not treated with the compound W...(the hard to reach ones, neck, armpits, under the breasts etc).
And the bleeding granulation on my stoma are gone too...so it works.
Hope that it is availible to you there...
Sharon

I seem to have several tags....some internal and one rather big one externally. I've had them as long as I've had my J-pouch....over 10 years! I just keep the external one really clean. I never bother with the internal one(s). Fortunately, they don't bother me.

I had some that were removed with my original colectomy. However, they did return, and now with the seton/knot there, they seem to be getting irritated. Or at least, I notice them more.

Sharon, if this homeopathic remedy can be found/ordered, it's OK to take without a doctor's involvement?

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They are plant based drops...But...I still would check it out with your doctor...if he knows or understands theses things...here they are very, very into homeopathic treatments and many are even reimbursed by the social health care system...not so much so in the States...but practically all French GPs prescribe Arnica for bruising, healing post op and post fracture...so they get it. Not sure what US docs feel about these things.
Just make sure that you mention it.
I do believe that most tags, like warts a viral and thus if you just burn them off they will grow back...but if you treat the virus then they don't.
Sharon

Thanks, Sharon.

I have several skin tags on the outside too and the doctors don't seem too worried about them, but I never had them until a few months after takedown.

I have one, but it doesn't cause me too many issues.

Yes, I have a rather large skin tag on my anus, which my surgeon is aware of and is unconcerned about. I believe I developed this within the last 2-3 years. My surgeon has advised against removing it, as there can be complications with such procedures. As my surgeon put it, "removing them often causes more problems." The tag does not bother me. It has on a couple of occasions become irritated but Calmoseptine resolved the issue. It's unsightly to be sure, but it's not really as if anybody sees down there. I hardly give it a second thought these days.