Anonymous wrote:Age 60, I had MOHS yesterday. It was very easy. About an hour to remove the BCC, then I sat around for an hour until they looked at it under the microscope, then another hour to close up the wound (which was pretty big). Didn't hurt at all, doesn't hurt now (the next morning).
There were lots of other people in the waiting room and I'd say most of them were also about my age, though one fellow was noticeably older.
I think I'd have to be a lot older and frailer for this procedure to be physically challenging to recover from.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Parents mid-eighties and is getting pre-cancerous lesions removed quarterly. Healing is slow and takes a lot out of them. If you’ve had a parent in a similar situation did you start to spread them out a bit more?
I thought MOHS was an outpatient procedure, local anesthetic. That doesn’t sound too onerous. Though everything is more onerous when you’re over 80.
I am 53 and not a wimp. I just had mohs on the side of my nose for basal cell. It took 15 stitches to close and had a very painful healing period.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Parents mid-eighties and is getting pre-cancerous lesions removed quarterly. Healing is slow and takes a lot out of them. If you’ve had a parent in a similar situation did you start to spread them out a bit more?
I thought MOHS was an outpatient procedure, local anesthetic. That doesn’t sound too onerous. Though everything is more onerous when you’re over 80.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Parents mid-eighties and is getting pre-cancerous lesions removed quarterly. Healing is slow and takes a lot out of them. If you’ve had a parent in a similar situation did you start to spread them out a bit more?
I thought MOHS was an outpatient procedure, local anesthetic. That doesn’t sound too onerous. Though everything is more onerous when you’re over 80.
Last time he went in he was there for 7 hours, wiped him out for days and he’s already frail.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Parents mid-eighties and is getting pre-cancerous lesions removed quarterly. Healing is slow and takes a lot out of them. If you’ve had a parent in a similar situation did you start to spread them out a bit more?
I thought MOHS was an outpatient procedure, local anesthetic. That doesn’t sound too onerous. Though everything is more onerous when you’re over 80.
Anonymous wrote:Parents mid-eighties and is getting pre-cancerous lesions removed quarterly. Healing is slow and takes a lot out of them. If you’ve had a parent in a similar situation did you start to spread them out a bit more?
Anonymous wrote:Pre-cancerous lesions do not require surgical removal. Get them frozen, or use a chemo cream instead.
Anonymous wrote:This thread is very timely for me. DH is early 80s and has multiple medical issues. We learned today that a mohs surgery that hasn't healed requires reconstructive surgery, which DH may or may not be able to tolerate. The original target lesions were all basal cell ca, so maybe not even worth treating given his overall condition. It was kind of stupid to do the mohs in the first place.
Yet another instance of how you have to be your own doctor, maybe especially in old age.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:At mid 80s why even take them off if they are precancerous? How long do you expect them to live?
That’s what we are thinking. His doctor insists he’s seen every 3 months and always finds something leading to hours at the clinic for follow up removal and often weeks of bandages