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gregger69
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Fri Jul 13, 2007 6:31 am  |
Hello everyone,
I had a motorcycle crash about a month ago and had two gash/cuts on my forehead which was sewn up with a plastic surgeon knot and the whole side of my face was road rash with a few other road rash and cut spots on my shoulder and leg which I'm not to worried about.
I used Bacitracin Zinc ointment to heal up the wounds/scabs which worked pretty well. Now I'm left with the two cuts about 1 to 1.5 inches each (one is semi wide and the other closed but raised a bit) and also have a large pink spot about the size of a silver dollar on my cheek from the road rash on my face.
I have been using Mederma for three weeks now and don't see any change other than it itches a bit and the pink spot seems to be getting "pinker". I’ve tried to stay out of the sun as much as possible and been putting 50+ sun screen on when I go outside and wearing a wide rim hat to try and keep the sun of my face.
I’ve read most of the posts for different treatments and was wondering if there is anything else that will work better for the pink skin left from the road rash and the gash/cuts on my face other than Mederma or vitamin E oil.
Thanks
Greg |
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Fri Jul 13, 2007 8:38 am |
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Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:36 pm |
I used Mederma religiously for months on a surgical scar and found it a waste of time and $. Then after I gave up I heard something in passing on TV about it not being effective. I tried Vitamin E oil on a previous scar and it wasn't effective either.
I did use a silicone sheet product (many brands available at CVS or Rite Aid in US) but you need to leave it on almost 24/7 for several months to get the benefit. It might be more difficult on your face? |
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Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:19 pm |
Greg, make sure you're using a sunscreen with broad spectrum protection - many say 50 SPF on the bottle but don't necessarily protect as well as you think. I recommend getting something with both physical and chemical sunscreens in it and applying religiously, like seriously every time you leave a building. I had a bad set of scars from my ACL surgery and the orthoscopic cameras they used, but I actually applied white medical tape OVER the scars for that whole summer when they were exposed, and they turned white instead of red like most people's. So sun protection is #1 in my opinion. Plus do everything else the gals here told you, too.  Good luck! |
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Tue Jul 24, 2007 5:05 pm |
Had to jump in here as we have some experience with this in our family.  I have a foot long scar on my right inner arm from a repair of a severed Brachial artery as well as a six inch-er on my right thigh where they harvested a vein to graft onto same damaged artery. Also a two inch-er along my left eyebrow. My daughter has two small surgical scars on her chest from a lung surgery as well as from the Broviach port following the surgery.
I had good success on the eyebrow scar with vitamin E. It has to be straight from the capsule though, not the topical stuff. It did not work so well on the larger scars but I did have marked improvement on the thigh one from the silicone patches. Which I was fairly impressed by as my scars are from 1988 and I did not try the patches until 2005! My daughter's scars are hardly noticeable at all as we used the vitamin E as soon as the stitches were removed followed by patches a couple months later once her skin was recovered enough to handle having a patch on it most all of the time.
I would try the vitamin E from the capsule and the patches at least at night (unless there is a way to wear them during the day that works for you)...wearing the patches does take about six weeks 24/7 to see some a noticeable improvement so if you can only wear them at night I would give it even longer. The most important thing is to KEEP THE SCAR OUT OF THE SUN!!! Nothing has helped the scar on my arm due to the fact that I did not protect it from the sun. It does not bother me anymore that it is there since it is on the inside portion of my arm and I have come to a point of acceptance which is probably half the battle...as soon as I stopped stressing about the scar people stopped noticing it. Funny how that works. 
Best advice I can give is give it some time and don't stress about it or be self consciesce. I used to think that the scars, especially the one on my face, were the first thing anyone saw when they met me. I now realize that usually people don't even know they are there unless I point them out.
Give the patches a try though, they worked wonders for my thigh and my daughters chest. Best of luck |
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gregger69
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Tue Jul 24, 2007 9:22 pm |
Just wanted to say thanks much for all your responses, I will look into all these other alternatives as well. I think the Mederma is going in the trash.
Regards
GS  |
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