My War on Scars |
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About a month ago, I got in a boating accident. It wasn’t anything other than stupidity. Lessons were learned, and I’m moving on. I didn’t sustain any broken bones, so my lifelong streak is still in tact. (If that wasn’t a jinx, I don’t know what was). However, for the first time, I had emergency stitches put in (I don’t count having a mole removed when I was little as it was a planned surgery).
When you are going to do something, I guess you should do it big. I had 18 stitches above my eyebrow. It’s weird in that I had two cuts, right next to each other. If it didn’t happen so fast, I’d explain how I did it, but I’m a bit at a loss. It’s amazing how blood there is running through that area of your face. Luckily there really aren’t any nerves. Try it yourself… twist the skin above your eyebrow. See, other than looking like a fool, it doesn’t really do much.
After 18 stitches, there’s going to be some kind of scar. I’m going all out to try to minimize the damage. I’m making an appointment with a dermatologist today, but in the meantime I’ve been using three products:
- Mederma Cream - This used to prescription only and the one thing that my wife, a pharmacist, recommended. My research shows onion bulb extract is helpful in it. Who knew?
- ScarZone - It’s got some of the same things as Mederma, but also has dimethicone (silicone) which is known for reducing scars. It adds in 2 more sunscreens for SPF 15. No use letting the sun add any damage.
- Kelo-cote - This is a gel that forms a silicone sheet, a little like the ScarZone.
Yep, it’s a war and I’m unleashing all the hounds in my arsenal. Can you think of more weapons that I could use while I wait for my dermatologist appointment? Perhaps she recommends some laser surgery or Retin-A cream. We’ll see.
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October 28th, 2008 at 10:58 am
why so vain??? live with it as a reminder of stupidity and it might look like a battle scar. lazyman is not so lazy when it comes to vanity.
October 28th, 2008 at 11:41 am
I don’t know. I care what I look like. I’m probably in the majority with that.
Lazy Man is not about being lazy so much - at least not the standard definition of it. It’s about getting a maximum result on the effort you put in. In this case, it’s very little effort to buy the supplies that I did and really not to much more to use them. That pales to the result of not having a 3 inch scar above my eye.
October 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Lots of mineral springs claim to help and I had good luck, but couldn’t tell for sure if it was just the moisturizing, so I started trying a bunch of moisturizers.
I have had *fantastic* luck with a product I picked up lately: Giovanni’s Organic Body Care “Touch” Body Butter (cucumber song scent). It has made an incredible difference - better than any prescription or over the counter product specifically designed to treat scars (didn’t start using it until last month, almost a decade after the fire). Don’t know how different the healing of burn scars are from cut scars, but give it a try.