Skin Coloured Facial Moles - 29 Year Old Fair Skinned Female - Bristol, GB

I remember the day I got my moles. I was about 11 and I remember thinking I was watching them slowly grow. They are skin coloured and I'm fair but they have always bothered me. People say they don't notice them - even my own sister says that, but I do. I had a breast reduction and when I was 21 I had my first consultation about that and about my moles. I was too scared to do either at the time but two years ago I had my breast reduction. It was life changing and the best decision. I decided to go back to the same surgeon this time and emailed his PA to book in to see him at his 'lumps and bumps' clinic.
I saw him two weeks ago now and he explained he would be happy to remove them. I have one that is to the left of my mouth and slightly below and another to the right of my mouth and above. The third one is on my jaw line so it's difficult to show. He said all of them are in good positions as they fall within my smile lines and muscles. I liken my moles to Sarah Jessica Parker's mole because hers was near her mouth and skin coloured too.
Like any fixated person, I spent a lot of time on YouTube reading about this. The majority of videos show the technique where they literally shave the mole. My surgeon said he prefers to excise it - where you cut an elliptical shape around the mole and stitch it together. He said this ensures you get all of the mole and it won't grow back. I was a bit nervous as it seems more likely to scar but I do trust him. He said he can shave it and it's less work for him but it isn't his recommendation.
I am a bit nervous to be seen afterwards so I think I will book time off work. Hopefully I can have my stitches out in time.... I think realistically whatever time I take off it won't be enough to have the surgery, have stitches out and be healed enough to cover my face in make up. I may just need to share with my co workers!
What is funny is that I work at a school and a student came into the office and she had a tape/dressing on her face and my colleague asked her why and she said oh I got a mole removed. A 15 year old more capable of being confident than me.... Did put me to shame!
Another point to add - because my surgeon was so incredibly neat with my last surgery I was confident he would be very neat on my face. The only other issue is I had some hypertrophic scarring last time and he assured me this was very unlikely on my face as it's very different skin. However I had already come to terms with this when I came to see him because although I have some bad scarring 50% of my scars or more are invisible.
I am scheduled to have it done on Tues 5 April. She could do sooner but as I work in a school I wanted to do it during the Easter holidays.

So rk

So somehow the last post updated without me wanting it to. I am at the hospital waiting and quite nervous. My appointment is 10.30 I got here at 10.13 and checked in. I had no paperwork or confirmation from anyone so I was quite worried and when I got here the receptionist looked very confused for ages. Eventually she found my name thankfully and said I needed to pay. I tried to pay on the car I had all the money on but it declined, I think because I never use that card and it was too much to be approved. I paid with my credit card but felt a bit embarrassed!

Anyway now I am in the waiting room it's 10.39 and I haven't heard from anyone yet. I'm not really a nervous person these days but waiting is the worst bit. I keep thinking I need the toilet and my feet are tingling with nerves.

Eek!