We are one of only a few minor surgery clinics in the country to offer anal skin tag removal. Anal skin tags are excess skin growths around the anus, which can be quite bothersome, but are often not eligible for NHS treatment as they are deemed to be a cosmetic issue.
Procedure costs vary from patient to patient and will be confirmed at your consultation, but small anal skin tags can be treated for £400.
If you would like an initial discussion with Dr Mike Fabricius, you can book a free of charge online consultation to learn more.
People choose to have their anal skin tags treated for a variety of reasons:
Before having treatment for their skin tags, we ask all patients to have a consultation with our doctor. This will include an examination (with one of our female nursing team also present) to ensure that your skin tags are suitable for treatment in our clinic, and that there is not a more serious diagnosis which requires treatment or referral.
Treatment is carried out under local anaesthetic, this involves an injection to the area with a very fine needle. If you are worried about the injection, we are able to send out a prescription in advance for some numbing cream (topical local anaesthetic) which you can apply before coming to your appointment.
The procedure is carried out in our operating theatre. You will be asked to change into a patient gown, and to lie on the bed with your legs up in stirrups. Once the local anaesthetic has taken effect, the doctor will remove the skin tags using a scalpel. This will be entirely painless. Any bleeding will be controlled with cauterisation from our Hyfrecator machine. On some occasions, it may be necessary to use some dissolving stitches. The procedure takes around 20 minutes.
You will leave with a dressing pad on the wound, and some packing in your underwear. We recommend using over the counter pain killers such as paracetamol or ibuprofen, as the local anaesthetic will wear off after 4-6 hours.
It is important to keep your bowels loose over the next week to avoid any straining, we will provide a prescription for laxatives. We recommend avoiding strenuous activity for a few days, most patients will fully recover and return to normal activities within one to two weeks.
We remain available for any advice or follow-up which is required: all patients leave with our emergency contact details, including an out of hours emergency phone line.
The cost of a consultation is £100. Unlike some clinics, we do not bundle this in with the cost of the procedure, as we believe it is important to offer our patients a no-pressure, personalised consultation with our experienced doctor. Face-to-face appointments allow us the make the best assessment of your skin lesion. As the cost of the consultation has been paid in full, there is never any pressure or expectation for patients to have a procedure, when sometimes, reassurance or advice is all that is needed.
Procedure costs vary from patient to patient and will be confirmed at your consultation, but small anal skin tags can be treated for £400. Larger tags requiring stitches are charged at up to £600. We discount the removal of a second or subsequent skin tag during the same procedure by £100.
On rare occasions, we may not be able to treat your anal skin tags, or may advise that referral to a specialist colorectal surgeon is advisable. Reasons for this include:
