i started cutting myself about 5 months ago. i`ve stopped [for the time being] but i noticed that some of the cuts [that are now scars] haven`t faded, and i cut them about 3 or so months ago. i just want to know if they`ll ever fade.
2007-01-28 12:34:54 · 15 answers · asked by maxx 1 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
and only a few are deep.
2007-01-28 12:44:38 · update #1
As for the cutting...seek counseling. Some scars fade but it depends on how deep they go. Also, genetics and health have a lot to do with how your skin heals. Some ethnicities actually develop these really huge thick things called keiloids...I have em. They are scars that look like huge thick nasty things.
2007-02-02 14:59:38 · answer #1 · answered by Jalapinomex 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scars will fade
As a former Si'er
I have a ton,
and they have faded alot, some to the point where no one would know where they were unless I pointed them out to them.
Scars will fade but not dissapear especially deep ones
2007-01-29 01:33:04 · answer #2 · answered by lustfulfaerie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try rubbing cocoa butter into the scars. They may never fully fade, but they will lessen. Also be careful in the sun -- scar tissue does not tan and sunburn on a scar can be very painful.
2007-02-05 09:05:30 · answer #3 · answered by rockgeek56 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Mederma it's a scar fade cream. I believe you need a Rx for it though.
Also you should seek medical help for the cutting. There are people out there that can help you with the pain.
2007-02-02 03:56:54 · answer #4 · answered by double_klicks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The deep scars may never fade and look like a hollow pot,kinda shallow though.
If your skin doesn't form tough scar tissue,the shallow scars will fade but not completely like you never had a scar.
I hit my chin on a rock while playing out,after 12yrs now i still have a slight visible scar on my chin where i hurt.
2007-01-28 12:46:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try cocoa butter or Neosporin. Maybe even some stretch mark formulas will help, but they won't completely go away. You can make them fade a lot though with some products today.
2016-03-29 07:08:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vitamin E helps reduce scars. You can get them from any pharmacy The little gel capsules that you break open, and put on your scars a few times a day.
2007-02-05 08:17:10 · answer #7 · answered by gillian 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
At some time in your life, you have been abused.
You need to seek professional help.
You also need to know that it was not your fault.
many people are preyed on by rat-bags, who have no morals.
They dont care about the pschological damge they do to young minds.
And whats worse they leave people who have been abused feeling like it was their fault and that they are dirty.
You have to be assured, that whatever happened to you, was not your fault, and you did nothing to provoke this abuse.
Get some help, and the mental scars will gradually heal.
2007-02-04 16:54:17 · answer #8 · answered by sylvia a 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Normally they don't.
Anyway, allow me to suggest that you should try stop this practice definitely. I know that a habit isn't easy to get rid of - a habit has kind of a life of its own and it may even decide to make use of the whole life of yours until consuming you to your death.
But you might try to find an alternative to this mania of yours - for instance you might try to artistically do paper-cutouts, or creatively engage in something else very beautiful where cutting is not involved at all.
2007-02-05 06:12:29 · answer #9 · answered by pasquale garonfolo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will take a few years for them to fade. If you use Neosporin (right after skin is broken) or Vitamin E oil ( after wound closes) they will fade quicker.
2007-02-05 10:23:57 · answer #10 · answered by lil Trouble 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋