Stretch Marks!!

[Guest]

come on board...dont die on me

i need you for mental support. we all do

on a side note, why did my skin doctor tell me that derma rollers and chemical peels are useless? i want to trust his opinion because he IS a doctor (a very well known and succesful one as well), but at the same time i feel that we might actually have a better understanding than someone like him does. after all, we are the ones with the sm's and the opinions and thoughts of all of us combined might be better than any doctors - no matter how good he is...

i say this because i was thinking of buying a derma roller but i remmeber the doc saying its useless... what do i do

[Guest]

come on board...dont die on me

i need you for mental support. we all do

on a side note, why did my skin doctor tell me that derma rollers and chemical peels are useless? i want to trust his opinion because he IS a doctor (a very well known and succesful one as well), but at the same time i feel that we might actually have a better understanding than someone like him does. after all, we are the ones with the sm's and the opinions and thoughts of all of us combined might be better than any doctors - no matter how good he is...

i say this because i was thinking of buying a derma roller but i remmeber the doc saying its useless... what do i do

what i have found is that doctors often dont have a clue when it comes to alot of things. because there are so many different illnesses/problems they cant possibly know everything about everything. my doctor for example knows very little about any problem i have ever seemed to have. for sure i have known far more than him about the subject matter. sms i believe are a lost cause in doctors eyes and they dont know a great deal about it in my opinion.

[queenofpeels]

Hellp all
Not been on this forum for what seems like eons!! Hope you're all doing well.
After a long long break (life took over) I have decided to try afresh to tackle my sms again!! I am in a really positive mood about this as I am realistic about the results and will be happy about even a slight improvement!
For thos who dont know or remember, I have sms on my hips, thighs, boobs, bum and tummy (basically all the female sexy bits) which has really affected my confidence over the years and made me feel like S*** even though when I have clothes on I have a great figure and an attractive face etc etc etc
SO!! My routine (I am going to help mtself to tried and tested methods on this board) will combine (and in no strict order):
Retin A 0.1%
Glycolic acid peels (50%)
Copper Peptides
Strong, targeted peels on sms (wide ones on tummy) with salycilic acid (the stuff used for warts and verrucas)
I am also taking a concoction of vit C and multivits; Calcium,Magnesium and Zinc; Q10 and some other stuff I can't remember the name of but its good for joints.
Having said this, I am not religious about any of the above and accept that realisticaly my routine will be sporadic...BUT I intend to keep it up one way or another for the next year (thanks J, for your inspiration!!)
Then (I have a new Job!) I hope to have saved up enough money to afford a course of treatments with a Harmony Pixel laser, which is like fraxel only cheaper. I am hoping over the next few months to ask a clinic to give me a free or low-cost trial zapping of a few stretchmarks boobs and tummy (because the skin is very different in these areas) so I can see whether it will work before I fork out hundreds of pounds (I am in UK)
I'll keep you posted xxx

[Guest]

Hi,

I started a routine mid June. A very light routine but i thought I'd share.
I have marks on my calves, thighs, bum and sides. There are also faint marks on my belly which recently appeared. I am dry skin brushing, moisturising and taking vitamins to prevent more-hopefully it'll work.
My marks are white/silverish. They are indented at the back of my thighs and on my calves.

On the back of my thighs I have been:
Monday - Apply glycolic acid
Tuesday - Apply glycolic acid
Wednesday - Apply glycolic acid
Thursday - Lightly file
Friday - Moisturise
Saturday - Moisturise
Sunday - Moisturise

I've been doing this for 6 weeks fairly consistently. I really haven't seen enough of a differnce to say that theres an improvement unfortunately. However I have been using very low perentage glycolic- I worked may way up to 20% but I put it on and leave it on all night. I'm now going to carry on with this routine but with 30% glycolic untill mid October and see if there is any improvement. After that I intend to start on TCA.
I will let you know my progress on 30% glycolic before I move on to TCA.

I would like to say as much as I would love to be rid of these marks I'm not letting them take over my life. I still have fun with my friends, like meeting guys, work hard on my course and manage a sm routine along side my life. I try to keep positive and happy and not let my sm's disturb my life too much. I appreciate the support on this forum which helps me keep positive when I'm down.

I have a couple of questions I hope I can get help with.

1) I'm a student and like my nights out with a few drinks. What would be the best way to limit damage to my skin from this. I drink alot of water at the end of the night as it is. Would taking Vitamin B help? Kojirio your advice would be really helpful here! Also if anyone else has advice on this it would be appreciated.

2)Someone posted about Palmer's Skin success Eventone Fade Milk. The product is supposed to fade away dark patches of skin in my understanding. So I was wondering if it lightened all your skin to match your white marks or if it was that your marks changed back to your normal skin colour?

Thanks in advance for answers.

R.B

[Guest]

come on board...dont die on me

i need you for mental support. we all do

on a side note, why did my skin doctor tell me that derma rollers and chemical peels are useless? i want to trust his opinion because he IS a doctor (a very well known and succesful one as well), but at the same time i feel that we might actually have a better understanding than someone like him does. after all, we are the ones with the sm's and the opinions and thoughts of all of us combined might be better than any doctors - no matter how good he is...

i say this because i was thinking of buying a derma roller but i remmeber the doc saying its useless... what do i do

what i have found is that doctors often dont have a clue when it comes to alot of things. because there are so many different illnesses/problems they cant possibly know everything about everything. my doctor for example knows very little about any problem i have ever seemed to have. for sure i have known far more than him about the subject matter. sms i believe are a lost cause in doctors eyes and they dont know a great deal about it in my opinion.

sadly you are probably right....makes me not even want to go to my skin doctor appointment in a couple of hours ...i just dont see how someone who DOESNT have stretch marks (especially horrible ones) can have a greater understanding of it than someone who does...he might have a "phd" but guess what, ive had these marks for over 7 years now and theyve altered my life, so i doubt any doctor has a better understanding of it than i do and is as determined to rid them as me...

im wasting all this money on v-beams and havent seen a tiny improvement yet! its almost been a year now! my doctor claims he cant do fraxel yet because my marks are still red and they have to be white in order for fraxel to work...so he is "prepping" them with the v-beam...the last time i went back, he noticed that NOTHING has changed. it sort of sounded like he was making **** up on the spot! he was saying things like "ohhh well, its actually GOOD that they are this color, it means that its working! come back in a few months and they should be better!"

well its been a few mmonths and they havent improved at all. i wonder what his reaction will be this time...im begining to think doctors cant possibly have a better understanding of sm's than we do...if tommorow doesnt go well, then im going to put my trust in you guys. i will follow your routines and suggestions instead...

[Guest]

come on board...dont die on me

i need you for mental support. we all do

on a side note, why did my skin doctor tell me that derma rollers and chemical peels are useless? i want to trust his opinion because he IS a doctor (a very well known and succesful one as well), but at the same time i feel that we might actually have a better understanding than someone like him does. after all, we are the ones with the sm's and the opinions and thoughts of all of us combined might be better than any doctors - no matter how good he is...

i say this because i was thinking of buying a derma roller but i remmeber the doc saying its useless... what do i do

what i have found is that doctors often dont have a clue when it comes to alot of things. because there are so many different illnesses/problems they cant possibly know everything about everything. my doctor for example knows very little about any problem i have ever seemed to have. for sure i have known far more than him about the subject matter. sms i believe are a lost cause in doctors eyes and they dont know a great deal about it in my opinion.

sadly you are probably right....makes me not even want to go to my skin doctor appointment in a couple of hours ...i just dont see how someone who DOESNT have stretch marks (especially horrible ones) can have a greater understanding of it than someone who does...he might have a "phd" but guess what, ive had these marks for over 7 years now and theyve altered my life, so i doubt any doctor has a better understanding of it than i do and is as determined to rid them as me...

im wasting all this money on v-beams and havent seen a tiny improvement yet! its almost been a year now! my doctor claims he cant do fraxel yet because my marks are still red and they have to be white in order for fraxel to work...so he is "prepping" them with the v-beam...the last time i went back, he noticed that NOTHING has changed. it sort of sounded like he was making **** up on the spot! he was saying things like "ohhh well, its actually GOOD that they are this color, it means that its working! come back in a few months and they should be better!"

well its been a few mmonths and they havent improved at all. i wonder what his reaction will be this time...im begining to think doctors cant possibly have a better understanding of sm's than we do...if tommorow doesnt go well, then im going to put my trust in you guys. i will follow your routines and suggestions instead...

[guest7861]

im depressed coz of my sms....
441 posts and still no proper cure.....!!!
my life is ruined coz of my sms

[Guest]

hi, im new here..... but i've read all the post from page 1 till now(took me a whole mths!!! phew..... )
a little background, i've had sms for more than 10years now. Im 24, f. Brown skin, with white/silver sms. i have it on my calf, thighs, butt, lower tummy, boobs, and arms(the worst). I've never worn sleeveless my whole life...!!!
Here's wat i've tried:
1) Palmers cocoa butter- nil improvement with horrible side effect(rashes)
2) Trilastin SR(paid a freaking 500bucks) - maybe just 2% improvement but no change in the white/silver color- still very visible
3) Fraxel laser(still on-going, finished my 2nd treatment 4 more to go; p/s: the pain is unbearable)- Yes there is result, sort of distortion of small lines but not longer/wider ones, but till now its still very visible. Improvement maybe 10%
4) Castor oil with heat pad(tried it 3 times)- it maybe helps with the texture but definately no effect on the color....

J, u are my inspiration and i adore you alot....
I'm positive that this thing can be cured... and this forum is going to help me a lot.... and im in to work together or share ideas with u guys....

My next remedy will be TCA, copper peptide, olive oil routine... but need some advice from you guys... should i do the peels in between my fraxel that is on-going???

Love you guys lots..... we shall all get rid of these sh*t together.... JUST STAY POSITIVE....!!!!

-A-

[queenofpeels]

I don't know how long it takes for your skin to recover from a fraxel treatment - I wouldn't use acid peels (certainly not TCA) until most of the redness is . SO it depends on how long the intervals are between treatments. A strong acid peel can take over a week for you sking to heal up.
The key is not to overwork or underwork your skin - you need to stress it out just enough to provoke a healing response and hopefully boost your collagen production.
Good luck!!
And for the person whose sms are still red - try retin A cream. I would say this is your best bet. I also found that using a slendertone flex (exercise belt) after pregnancy turned my red sms white in very rapid time - just a thought... xxx

[Guest]

any updates J??????

be much appreciated thanks

[TPD]

My advice to all of you: work out, eat well and buy nice clothes. I have loads of marks all over the place but they just don't bother me anymore. Bulking up and toning improved my self-perception loads. The skin looks just so much better on a fuller athletic shape. Rather than obsessing about the irreversible flaws you should focus on really easy things which will make a big difference to the way you see yourself. I have accepted that I am never ever going to be perfect but at least I can make myself feel better now.

Burning already damaged skin with acids and slapping on snake oil creams is just the road to perpetual disappointment. Stop worrying about how imperfect you are. Don't hand over your hard earned cash to false hope peddling quacks. Face the reality. There may never be a "cure". I just realised I am going to be thirty-forty-fifty-sixty anyway. Before I know it I will be probably more concerned about going bald or athritis or whatever - so what's the point in trying to recapture some condition of being whole and unblemished? Embrace now, stop putting off your life until some imagined time when your skin improves. You'll laugh at yourself and your marks eventually. Be strong. You are alive and that's a gift.

[Guest]

My advice to all of you: work out, eat well and buy nice clothes. I have loads of marks all over the place but they just don't bother me anymore. Bulking up and toning improved my self-perception loads. The skin looks just so much better on a fuller athletic shape. Rather than obsessing about the irreversible flaws you should focus on really easy things which will make a big difference to the way you see yourself. I have accepted that I am never ever going to be perfect but at least I can make myself feel better now.

Burning already damaged skin with acids and slapping on snake oil creams is just the road to perpetual disappointment. Stop worrying about how imperfect you are. Don't hand over your hard earned cash to false hope peddling quacks. Face the reality. There may never be a "cure". I just realised I am going to be thirty-forty-fifty-sixty anyway. Before I know it I will be probably more concerned about going bald or athritis or whatever - so what's the point in trying to recapture some condition of being whole and unblemished? Embrace now, stop putting off your life until some imagined time when your skin improves. You'll laugh at yourself and your marks eventually. Be strong. You are alive and that's a gift.

im sorry, no disrespect to you but you must not have a bad case of sm's. some of us, particularly me have a RIDICULOUS amount of stretch marks in very sensitive places. so for us its alot harder to just "accept". ive thought about killing myself before thanks to my sm's so obviously its not something im going to just accept overnight. mine are extremely bad

[Guest]

I dunno why everyone is rooting for "j" just cuz she says that tca peels work for her.....she also said some other product worked for her to then all of a sudden it was "oppps oh noez im sorries ....it didnt work after all" now im supposed to beleive her again when she was incorrect the first time?not to mention she always talks about some dr on skinbiology....wake up...they sell tca so of course they will say it works.it doesnt, ive tried 25% tca ...didnt do jack my friends.watse of time.Then j says shell stick around unlike everyone else b4 her.....of course all of a sudden , its too negative and she wont come back.....how convinant.I have hundreds of marks to.They have ruined me to.......but it is what it is and in over 400 posts no one has cured their marks.SO unless some new laser technology comes out to shock the world , we will have to find other ways to cope with this.

[Guest]

Wats your problem. Maybe u're just some unlucky person who couldnt get rid of ur marks with TCA.
Come on, J doesnt have to promote TCA tat much wasting so much of her time..... there are better business out there that requires less work than promoting TCA peels on this forum.
Stop being so negative... and if u did really mean wat u just said, you wont be reading these posts and rather google-ing "stretch mark removal laser".

Yes, true enuf laser is an answer for the future... but for now, we shall go ahead and try TCA... who's with me???

Btw, i've taken b4 and after pictures of my fraxel. I will def. post it after the end of my 6 session....(now at no.2)

J, any updates??

-A-

[Guest]

There was a scandinavian woman called Brigette I think, who cured her marks using tca about a year ago.

No I don't work for skin biology or any other company relating to stretch marks.

I spent a long time using the foot file, perhaps I was promoting Boots chemist then?

TCA has dramatically improved my marks, but so far, far as I can tell, it has not removed any.

I still read the site, but don't post so much as there is no point my doing lots of updates saying the same thing. I am continuing with the routine and will post pics when the marks are removed.


J