What do you use to help the scars?
Actually Merderma helped me...maybe it just did not help your BFF. Doesn't mean you can't try it yourself.
Edited to add: I had a really BAD scar from scraping my leg on asphalt last summer after falling off my bike. I used Merderma almost 6 months after and unless you know I hurt my leg, you can no longer see the scar on it. The original scrap covered about half my shin.
Liz
Edited to add: I had a really BAD scar from scraping my leg on asphalt last summer after falling off my bike. I used Merderma almost 6 months after and unless you know I hurt my leg, you can no longer see the scar on it. The original scrap covered about half my shin.
Liz
Duodenal Switch (Lap) 01-24-11 | Surgeon: Stephen Boyce | High weight: 250 in 2002 | Surgery weight: 203 | Lowest weight: 121 | Current weight: 135 | Goal weight: 135
mrsannie
on 9/19/12 3:57 am
on 9/19/12 3:57 am
Maderma will only work on a "scar" that is on the top layers of skin, like a scrap or a inflammation not on a real scar where the skin has been cut into. Unfortunately nothing will really help those except for time.
I have a really gross raised scar down my abdomen and I tried everything, maderma, vitamin E, collagen, etc. The only thing that has done anything is time, it has started to fade and is looking better but it will never go away.
It was totally worth it, I'll live with the scar now that I am actually living!!! :)
I have a really gross raised scar down my abdomen and I tried everything, maderma, vitamin E, collagen, etc. The only thing that has done anything is time, it has started to fade and is looking better but it will never go away.
It was totally worth it, I'll live with the scar now that I am actually living!!! :)
Nothing will change if you don't have the courage to change it!
And stop calling me "Shirley!"
It was totally worth it, I'll live with the scar now that I am actually living!!! :)
AMEN to that!!!! Merderma can't hurt it, or anything else she wants to try.
Oh, and the scrap on my leg went almost to the bone...it was U.G.L.Y.! :)
Liz
AMEN to that!!!! Merderma can't hurt it, or anything else she wants to try.
Oh, and the scrap on my leg went almost to the bone...it was U.G.L.Y.! :)
Liz
Duodenal Switch (Lap) 01-24-11 | Surgeon: Stephen Boyce | High weight: 250 in 2002 | Surgery weight: 203 | Lowest weight: 121 | Current weight: 135 | Goal weight: 135
puppysweets1
on 9/19/12 11:21 am - CA
on 9/19/12 11:21 am - CA
After losing weight the scars were the least of my skin worries. Ended up with so much nasty ugly wrinkly puckery droopy skin that it was hard to see the surgical scars. It didn't matter if the scars showed because my belly would never be seen in public anyway.
Mederma is expensive and you have to use it a long time for it to work.
Mederma is expensive and you have to use it a long time for it to work.
RNY to DS 210 lbs gone for 5 years.
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