mederma will work right?

give it a try
e45 cream is apparently good too, and bio oil

i have some cutting scars on my arm that i'm not sure will ever go away completely but i think e45 did help make it better. i'm trying to get rid of them still, and an operation scar on my belly,it's very ugly

no, i think the people that cut themselves and don't expect to have scars remain have deep, deep emotional problems.

yeah it does work. ive been using it for two months and they are pretty much gone. ive been alternating between mederma, bio oil and aloe vera. i'm not sure if they will ever be 100% gone but it has made such a huge difference you pretty much cant see them, i can only see them coz i know they are there. dont give up when you think it's not working

oh thank you SO much. this has really made me feel A LOT better. and yeah, if they are pretty much gone others cannot see them and that is what i feel is important. it has been almost 3 weeks and it is already making a little difference, much better than the scarfade stuff i used. i feel really hopeful now, and you say just two months made a huge difference!

About three years ago I too was heavily into cutting - or rather, burning - and i'm still horribly scarred. It's awful. They're probably going to be there for the rest of my life, and theres nothing I regret more. But see things from this view :- Don't look at them and be reminded of awful memorys, no matter how hard that is. Look at them and think 'Thank god I've over come this'. See it as a sign of incouragement if you ever feel like doing it again.. think to yourself that things were once that bad, and now you've over come it...

If I wasn't abit drunk, I could of written that all better.

No. If the scars are very small there is a good chance they'll fade completely with time, and there are things that can help speed up that healing process.

i think that when a person is cutting or burning themselves, they aren't really thinking about the scarring? they are more interested in how it will make them feel to release some pain and blood...

Does pumpkinpenchant need banned, or does pumpkinpenchant need banned? Seriously, this troll is ignoring all of the completely valid responses and wants a rise out of everybody. Ignore it.


Regarding scars, I have a few from my own days of self-harming. I can't remember how long the really old ones took to heal but a few of these cuts were roughly two years ago. All of them have completely faded in colour but there are slight raised marks left there. The raised marks really aren't noticeable to anybody but me; someone would struggle to see them unless I got them up close and pointed it out to them.

A friend of mine, with a worse cutting problem than I ever had, advised me that wheat germ oil was working wonders on his scars and urged me to give it a try. I only used it a few times and I saw very slight results. Had I continued using it regularly, I imagine my scars would have faded a lot quicker. His certainly faded quite well and his were a lot brighter and more severe than mine.

What made mine go away, in the end, was letting myself get sunburned on holiday. After the sunburn had turned into a tan, and then faded, the colouration of the scars has completely gone. That might not be the most sensible of advice, considering getting sunburned is a bad idea, but it worked for me. I wonder if getting some sun (or even some not-too-extensive exposure to sunbeds) might help your scars to fade.

I have no idea how to get rid of the raised marks in the skin but, honestly, I've gotten to the point where it no longer bothers me. But my worst cuts were on my thigh so it's easy for me to say that.

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I understand people saying that, and I agree to a certain extent. But mostly what I hate is the assumptions and reactions from other people. It is easy to see it as a postive thing if they are somewhere they aren't easily noticable, or very faded "this is something in my past" but if they are visable to everyone around you it is hard to put it as something totally in your past that you have got through, everyone else just jumps to conclusions and makes you think you still should be in that mindset.

wrong. scars never fade completely. you really are a moron, aren't you? good grief, why do you think they're called SCARS?

well i live in miami and i am out in the sun A LOT and i don't burn i usually just tan deeply. but i have always been extremely afraid of getting my wrist in the sun because i always thought that would bring the scars out more.

but anyways, i already see improvements with the mederma, and as my scars were pretty minor, i have confidence they will fade.
it is basically a little patch of little lines on my wrist and i really cannot think of them as "well i have overcome this." part of overcoming it to me is getting rid of the reminders.

and plus my scars are not raised, you cannot feel them, just see them.

i just am trying to explain how my scars are very minor and from stories i have heard from others who have had worse scars that have faded, i have a lot of hope. burns do not fade though, i have a small burn on my arm, not from self harm i was just merrily making pancakes and my stupid brother suprised me, and this was years ago and the burn is still there. but anyways, i think i will try the sun adivice because a few people have suggested that now

oh yeah, when i was cutting i never gave a thought to the scars it would leave behind.

actually [good news burnblack] most of mine (ad they were prolly worse than yours) are gone COMPLETELY. and i havent even used anything on them. soyah, you should be good. just takes time, ad since you're using stuff on them, it prolly wont even take as much time

More good news, most of mine are gone completely as well, and I didn't use anything to make them fade (other than sitting in the sun). I can still see them occasionally, but only because I know they're there. They're pretty much invisible to everyone else. About a year and a half ago, so about two and a half years since I had last cut myself, I had a big conversation with my then-boyfriend about how I used to self-harm, and I tried to show him the scars. It took a good few minutes of holding my arm up to the light at various different angles before he could see anything.

so don't worry about the scars, sweetie, they will definitely fade, and probably a lot sooner than mine since you're doing everything you can to get rid of them

well good, i feel loads better now. and i have learned it best to ignore pumpkinpenchant.