aldara and nodular bcc

Just wanted to post an update on my daughter. She had quite a bit of trouble with the skin graft but eventually it all healed. She developed a keyloid and has been treated for it several times. Aestethically she's not happy, but I think she looks great. However, she was just diagnosed with Infiltrative basal cell carcinoma on the top of her nose (on bone between the eyes). I don't really understand what that is and when I google it, the info I get goes to malenoma?

Located within that confines of that rash was an obvious larger bump about the circumference of an eraser head that subsequently turned out to be a BCC (nodular type). The bump had been there before the larger rash appeared although I had ignored it. I originally went to the dermatologist seeking treatment for the rash when he observed the BCC. He believed the rash was unrelated but wanted to clear it up before taking a biopsy and prescribed Triamcinlone Acetonide 0.1% .

Hello and welcome to MedHelp and our forums. We appreciate your question and wish the best for you during your upcoming surgery. We're glad you proactively sought help and are being cared for by a doctor who will be performing the Mohs Surgery. What type of skin cancer do you have? A surgical margin is the entire area to the edge of the tissue being removed. It will run wide (what you see on the skin) and deep (how many layers down).

After about a week though I poked at it because I wanted to see if pus would come out like a pimple would, but only blood came out. Then, another week went by and it scabbed over and looked irritated around the edges. the scab was more of a brownish color and not the color of my skin. I have fair skin by the way. The scab seemed to heal as the color of the spot is now a pinkish color but looks almost shiny.

I am doing some research and now looking at radiation therapy vs. mohs. My daughter has an infiltrative/nodular basal cell on her nostril and has been told by several drs. she will need reconstructive surgery which may or may not involve a graft, it may just be a "flap", but either one is invasive and radiation may be an option. We are awaiting results in order to determine the correct course of action.

BUT she told me not to worry, according to the biopsy results I do not have BCC, it is only a patch of precancerous cells that has not reached the stage of BCC yet. I was so glad about this because all this time I understood and thought it was BCC, because of the paper she gave me with instructions on how to treat BCC, how to use the cream, and info on what to expect during the treatment.

The doctor called it vulvar dysplasia, and he prescribed aldara cream 3 times a week because he said that since there are so many a laser would be very painful and that we should try to remove some with aldara first. I have a few questions about using aldara. 1) is it harmful to shave on off days from using aldara? 2) Can shaving make the warts worse? 3) Is sex okay when the cream is not on the skin? Thank you!

Can I take the hair and nails prenatals while prego ?? I really want my hair tooo grow long ...

Is it possible to still be pregnant with low bcc levels? I am 9 weeks bled in week 6 .

Yes, I'm not saying that Aldara acts on HPV itself. It is indeed the body's own immune system that gets rid of HPV-infected cells, however since the virus is not systemic and lays on the outskirts of your skin, it is hard for the immune cells to detect it and excrete cytotoxins that destroy compromised cells. That's why Aldara is marketed as "killing HPV from the inside out".

s activity is, at least in part, correlated with the reaction that it generates. If you have been using Aldara for 4 weeks with no effect and little local reaction, it is time to try something else such as freezing with liquid nitrogen. In answer to your specific questions however: 1. No, the location has little to do with response. Warts that have appeared more recently tend to respond better.

I just found out I had HPV yesterday and had my warts frozen and was given aldara to use in two days time. My question was, when would it be ok to masturbate again, and when would it be ok to have sex again?

For a week now I have continued the Efudex treatment twice daily and the lesion is down to about 4 MM long and 2 MM wide with only a shallow pit and it seems to shrink almost daily. The border is also appearing quite normal (to my eye). My question is this. Since this lesion has a history of slow growth, it is not considered particularly dangerous and since it seems to respond well to this very conservative treatment, what is wrong with what I am doing?

Im not sure if I should go to the er for this but this is how ive been feeling all day, I woke up and I almost puked, then I went to bcc walking cus it wasnt cold and I almost fainted and my chest started hurting bad, so I came back home con cold sweat and a headache

I did drastically change my diet though eating more vegetables and fruits and taking a daily vitamin and reducing alcohol intake and not smoking at all. I will continue using aldara and hopefully *fingers crossed* all the warts will go away :) im very thankful and hope i dont need surgery which the date was already set for. so for all of you that are in the same boat as i am in I would strongly recommend taking aldara its worth a try!

I used aldara with great success. However, I have read it has a higher success rate in females than males. Still, I do not know how credible this information exactly is. I found using Aldara to clear up the majority of warts, and then using a different treatment (such as cryo) to clear any remaining warts seemed to be effective. I used a combination of TCA and Aldara, and have been wart free for a month now (took 3 months to entirely clear).

re-read what i just wrote

i would stop the use and the redness/ swelling would go away and i would contine use and everything would be okay. recently i bought an aldara imitation cream, not the same brand name as aldara and have been experiencing more of a rash like reddish irritation where i use the cream. when i stop using it it will almost go away totaly but when i start back up using the cream the same rash in the same place will re appear. so im not sure if its the cheaper cream or if i have herpes.

I've been using Aldara for over two weeks now and am experiencing absolutely no side effects at all. Now I'm not disappointed believe me, but the one and only nice thing about side effects is that they indicate that whatever you are using is not "working" per-se but that it's doing *something*. Is this normal? Also, my doctor did a pretty deep freeze of the warts before sending me home with Aldara.

That's odd the ur 11 weeks and due on the 3Rd bcc I'm 12 weeks and I'm not due till the 30th I wonder y?

I have recently been using Aldara cream to try and eliminate my genital warts (HPV). Although the warts minimised in size after three months my doctor told me to stop using aldara because of the ineffectiveness and incredible sores and lesions that i endured whilst treatment. He reccomended me to a dermatologist for the treatment of the HPV.

I was just diagnosed with genital warts, probably the worst news i had ever heard only because the amount of partners I had been with was very slim and my fiance is the only person that I did not use a condom with....anyways, i have several questions that keep running through my head and need some answers to hold me over till i talk to my doctors next. Once my outbreak goes away with the medicine my doctor prescribed me (Aldara) will they keep coming back monthly?

while your boyfriend probably didn't get HPV from kissing you, he could have gotten the Epstein Barr Virus, which explains the sore throat. The Epstein Barr Virus is a very serious virus although doctors typically don't want to scare you and tell you this. It causes a really bad cancer...lymphoma!!! (i.e. Hodgkin's disease possibly). It doesn't absolutely cause this, but you have a VERY increased risk of developing lymphoma once you get the Epstein Barr Virus.

Aldara is used for several skin conditions. Your doctor will tell you where to apply Aldara cream, and how often and for how long to apply it for your condition. Aldara should be applied just before bedtime and left on the skin for 6-10 hours. If your skin condition reappears you need to talk to your doctor.

Aldara and nodular bcc

Common Questions and Answers about Aldara and nodular bcc

aldara