Scars
 

Has anyone used Mederma or any other scar-reducing medicines? I've started using it on a big scar I have--red, raised, bumpy and buckled. I honestly don't care about the appearance of it as much as the fact that it itches all the goddamn time and makes me want to tear my skin off.

I found one testimonial for Mederma that casually mentioned a reduction in itching/sensitivity along with visual appearance, but nothing else for it or any other product. At $15 a tube, and directions to use it for 3 months before a difference will be seen, can anyone here confirm or deny its effectiveness?

I was given a tube of some kind of scar reducing gel ointment stuff when I had something on my face removed, it didn't do jack squat. Don't know what kind it was but my personal opinion is not to waste my $ on that kind of stuff.
The surgery was done at the end of the summer of '05, the scar hasn't changed much in the past year. It's about an inch long now and the skin is the same color as the rest of my face.

my scars are all emotional.....they don't make creams for them.

Oh, sure they do...but they're just temporary.

Aloe vera gel is pretty friggin miraculous when it comes to skin and all skin related problems. get the 100% prure stuff from "lily of the valley" at your local health food groovy type store. They make a gel which is thicker than the gelly.

Also keep the scar out of sunlight until it is healed.

A large glass of gin, taken orally, will reduce the itching, along with many other, sensations. ;)

As opposed to...

... a gin enema of course. Which is rubbish for scars, but great for hiccups.

reminds me of the joke "...for all the good it did me I might as well have stuck it up my ass."

You're playing my song!

Mederma worked okay for me. I'm not sure if it was time or using Mederma that made them fade a bit, but they no longer itch at all. My scars aren't keloid so they aren't that bad (apart from the size) in the first place.

The docs told me cocoa butter can help. Scars are pretty permanent although some fade in time.

I'm disappointed. I thought this was going to be a "compare your scars" thread.

I'd probably win.

To the OP: Emu oil is good for anything skin-related. I highly recommend Desert Palms emu oil in the US, which you can find online. If the idea of bird fat grosses you out, try massaging it with jojoba oil--either of those would probably make the itching go away, in my layman's opinion.

A tattoo is technically a scar isn't it? So yeah...you win.

Setting aside tattoos, I'm hard to beat, and my dad is near impossible to beat.

Try this snail cream and look at that S car go!

Maybe, but I bet I win the age category: got my first set of stitches at the age of 3.