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    Default Laser treatment for scarring

    Hi Ladies!

    My name is Erin, I have been lurking here a while because I love to read your stories about stripping. For some reason I am fascinated with stripping and strip club culture and psychology, although I haven't done any stripping myself (I am a girl) Hope you don't think I'm creepy!

    I have also found the Body Business Forum a great place for current information and non judgemental discussions about different body related crap.

    So... I have a question that's related to my appearance, and when I was trying to think of somewhere I could get an educated opinion without feeling condescended too... I thought of here I hope this is ok. If its not just ignore me

    On to the question:

    I have some scarring on my arms from where I cut myself a few years ago when I was suicidal (I'm fine now ). A couple of months ago I went to a cosmetic surgeon to see what options I had for treating them...

    He said that if he cut the scars out and sewed things back together it would just scar again, so there was no point, which makes sense to me.

    I asked him about laser surgery, and Intense Pulsed Light, that sort of thing. He said that lasers were a waste of time and would do nothing but cost me money. In conclusion, he basically said there was nothing he could do.

    I thought that was kind of a bummer, but I figured he knew what he was talking about, and that was the end of that. However, recently I've been reading a few things, like a Paula Beugon report [URL="Cosmetic Cop[/URL] and some medical websites, and they say that lasers and intense pulsed light in particular can have a marked improvement on hypertrophic scarring (the type I have).

    Also I looked through the archives here and it seems several people have benefited from laser treatment for scarring.

    My question is what do I do now? Does anyone here know what the real deal is with lasers and scarring? Was the cosmetic surgeon I saw uninformed? Did he just decide for me that the results would not be enough to be worthwhile? Are the reports I've been reading wrong?

    Should I ring the doctor and ask what gives? Try to email him through his practice? Forget about him and see another doctor?

    Any advice would be much appreciate, and you girls all rock muchly!

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    Default Re: Laser treatment for scarring

    If that doctor does not think it would help, then I would not go back to him. Try a consult with a new doctor and see what they say. Laser technology is so new and there's so many brand new procedures coming out lately, maybe your fist doc is just uninformed about what is currently possible.

    Be prepared though, sometimes you can spend thousands on laser treatments and it does not help. Some of those sites have hyped or atypical results. Be prepared to be disappointed, don't expect a miracle cure, and don't spend the money unless you can really afford it.

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    I've had IPL done on burn scars and the results are kind of iffy. It looks better, but it's still there. Basically the laser re-burns the skin, just more evenly. So if you have thin scars from cutting, I doubt it would be much help.

    I am happy with my results only because my burn was so large and uneven. The area still has a slightly different look to it, but you can't automatically identify it as a burn.



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    For deeper scars I would think a Fraxel (or fractional) laser would work better than IPL. I've always heard that IPL was better for uneven skin tone and redness.

    I can't speak form experience because I've only considered laser treatments for my face and nothing as deep as a scar from cutting.

    I do know you need multiple treatment and they're very expensive.

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    They're kind of big pinky-red scars that have stretched from the tension of my skin. I don't know. I really appreciate your responses ladies

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