Mole Shaving - Recovery expectation?

[Simon.]

Unfortunately no pictures of shaved garden moles but never mind.

I recently had 6 skin lesions / moles / cysts removed from my head / face, these were cauterized so didn't need stiches, how long should it take to for the skin to grow back \ recover?

At the moment I have 5 black marks all over my face (with the last hidden under my hair at the side of my head) which quite frankly scare me, never mind the kids, using plasters to cover them up just highlights them rather than hides them.

Also at what point can I start doing strenuous exercise again without concern for sweat getting in and infecting the wounds?

[Peanut Gallery]

I recently had one shaved off, just at the start of my (rapidly receeding) hairline. Mine was about 2cm by 1cm, but fairly thin. The scab took between 1 and 2 weeks to fall off, then the thin skin underneath was pink for a long time. I would say it was watertight in a month. 3 months later I can still feel a small indent.

MUCH faster than stitches! I missed really scrubbing my face the most!

[Simon.]

The itching is killing me, not all 6 but 4 of them really are proving to be quite itchy.

[Perseverant]

Couldn't help but be intrigued. When I was 12 or 13, I knocked a big mole off my back - larking around at school - didn't notice anything at the time but when I got home it looked as if I'd been stabbed or shot as my shirt was caked in blood at the back. Trip to hospital followed and the doctor there stuck on some local anaesthetic and carved the remains out and did the same with a slightly smaller one. Not a pleasant experience, but the scars allowed me to tell our kids that it had been a shark before I'd given up being a pirate to do teaching instead. The serious point would be not to ignore things like that as they can be malignant.

[Simon.]

I had some removed from my trunk whilst serving in the Army (in NI as it happens), plenty of lie... war stories told about the scars

The six I had removed this week were all head / face related, I got fed up of catching them when shaving and got pestered by the wife to get them removed when I get my hair cut in the summer so bit the bullet.