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It is very common soon after surgery and for several months to have these kinds of pains. You have to keep in mind that after surgery there is inflammation and scarring. Scars can take up to a year to remodel. It is normal to have these complaints. I would give this several months to resolve.
The tingling is due to the involvement of skin nerves and could last as long as a year. I have hadgood results with rubbing the area with jean material 5 minutes, 4-6 times a day. The rubbing causesstimulation and blood flow.
The first thing I would advise is to discuss this with your Mohs surgeon. The tingling feeling is due to nerve "damage". This sort of thing is common following Mohs because nerves run throughout your skin. If you can still move your fingers (even if it hurts), then the more important nerves (and tendons) that control movement are not affected. The affected nerves should repair themselves.
Even though it does not feel like there is a lot of skin on the scalp, there is actually quite a bit. The way it works is that your surgeon will do an excision (based on the biopsy report) and remove tissue just as deep (and wide) as he/she believes the cancer lies. Then a slide is made while...
After a biopsy, small skin cancers can sometimes appear to shrink as the biopsy wound heals. There is a tiny chance that the biopsy was deep enough to remove all of a small squamous cell carcinoma. However, in the vast majority of cases, there are remaining cancer cells in the shrinking biopsy...
Mohs is the best procedure to treat an incompletely excised basal cell cancer on the face. Treatment should not be delayed for six months.