Kojiro wrote:king_fedor wrote:no offense to anyone here...i think all of you have some great knowledge on stretch marks and reading some of the pages actually gives me hope...
but i can honestly say that i stand ALONE in the war on stretch marks...when it comes to them, i am in my own league....i posted back on page 427 and for those that didnt read it, well basically im a 5'11, 21 year old male with deep purple stretch marks covering 40-50% of my back....i have them in other places as well...i have never in my life seen a case of marks quite as bad as mine...so no offense to any of you but until youve seen my case (i have a pic) then you shoudnt be complaining that much
atleast you all have the luxury of saying "theres always someone out there who has it worse than you" but i dont have that luxury. i truly believe im 1 in a billion and that i have probably the worst case of stretch marks ever seen. which is strange for a person my size who has never been obese or even fat at any point in his life...
ive had countless v-beams and none have worked...they havent even improved them at all to be honest...and ive tried tons of creams and they havent worked either....i have never tried any peels or any of the more advanced (and expensive) lasers...do you think i will have success with any of those methods?
i dont make much money, but i will sell anything i have to in order to raise the money for a $4000 deep fx laser treatment...to me its worth it. how about tca peels and glycolic? what do you think?
I think its time that you get over yourself. There's nobody who has even had things worse than you? You really want to see how bad things can get? Type "severe burn victims" into google. Let me know if you want to change places with those guys? When I get a chance, I will look around for a link I posted a long time ago. It was a few people who had absurd stretch marks all over their bodies. Seriously, you don't even compare to these people. For some of them, each stretch mark is about the size of a butcher's knife (3-4 inches wide and 8-10 inches long and an ugly deep purple colour that won't ever go away) Some of these people look like they shouldn't even still be alive... Personally I don't think my case is any better than yours. I have stretch marks over about 60-70% of my body including biceps, shoulders, all of my back, chest, stomach, inner thighs, front and back of my knees and probably many other places that aren't coming to mind right now. If you keep this idea that you are the most underprivledged individual in the world, you are only going to make yourself more miserable.
kojiro, i understand what you are saying but let me clear some things up. it is a classic argument to bring up the less fortunate people in the world and compare them to yourself. the blind people, deaf, crippled, people with prosthetic limbs, mentally retarded people, burn victims, starving children across the world etc. ...what i would like to say first and foremost about those type of people is that they certainly do have it a lot worse than me or any of us for that matter.
In no way am i saying that my situation is worse than a person who is paralyzed from the waist down or something like that. so lets get that straight. now, with that said, i want to make it clear that when i say i have it worse than almost anyone in the world, i am NOT including those type of people because i consider them to be in a different category than us. by us i mean so called "normal" people. i have 10 toes, 10 fingers, 20/20 vision, fine hearing and im healthy as an ox. at first glance i am what you would call a so called "normal" person.
when i say i have it bad, im making a comparison to other "normal" people in the world. i am not including people who have unfortunate disablities and problems like the ones i listed above , whether they were born with them or were in a tragic accident at some point in their lives. like i said earlier, these people most certainly have it worse than us and i would not like to trade places with them and i feel HORRIBLE even thinking what it must be like to live in their shoes.
but my point is, i dont think you should make a comparison to those kind of people because thats a tired and unfair argument. i was simply stating that i have it worse than most people who appear to be (and usually are) "normal"...those people, as harsh as it sounds are NOT "normal" ...thats not an insult, its simply the truth. a person who is in a wheel chair is not considered to be part of the norm. so i dont think you can compare "normal" people like us to them. in terms of people who are considered normal, i certainly have it worse than a good percentage of the population.
