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Old April 12th, 2008, 12:48 AM
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Scars

I bet people here have had more experience with scars than most non-MAists, so who has good advice on getting rid of scars? Are there products that work? Or do you all just leave your scars be so that people will be intimidated by how hardcore you are?

Also, if anyone has excellent scar stories, I'm sure we would all be interested.
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The common cocoa butter helps, there are also products like scaricin(sp?) that help to reduce and minimize scars, if it's a tight scar, sometimes soaking it in warm water and massaging and stretching the area will help tp loosen it up.

As for scars, I have a nice one on my wrist from where a piece of bone was torn out (had it for years and it's still tight).
Another from a surgery and that one is better, took a year or so there to get it back to normal.
One from a knee surgery, not too bad as it was arthroscopic and you can barely tell.
Another on the arm from a bullet, that one was inflamed and tough for a while and is just now back to normal with no difficulty and not that visible unless you look directly at it.


So, depending on the type, size and severity of the scar, use the cocoa butter, any scar reducing products you can find, vitamin E, warm watter and massage to loosen and stretch it if it's tight and incapacitates movement in any way and be patient, will take some time, but with proper care and attention, will go as back to normal as it can and cause no problems.
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vitamin e - take it and burst the capsules and smear the oil on the scar. massage to get the blood flow going. desert essence do a tea tree blemish stick that worked for me on a scar on the wrist that wouldn't heal and kept getting infected.
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