Advice on getting rid of surgery scars?

G1GY · #1 10-29-2009, 05:02 AM

Wait untill it's fully healed and then see how severe the scar is. Some scars tattoo fairly well. Also, some raised scars also flatten out when tattooed with larger (Mag) needle groupings. If you want to stop by after your healed, I'd be happy to give you an honest opinion. How about tattooing a zipper over the scar? j/k

I hope you heal well.

freezetyle · #2 10-29-2009, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by G1GY

If you want to stop by after your healed, I'd be happy to give you an honest opinion. How about tattooing a zipper over the scar? j/k

I hope you heal well.

haha one of my friends suggested the same thing! I am definatly not doing anything durastic to it yet as it had only been about 3 months since I got it. But later on down the road I would not mind another opinion. Do you tattoo out of a shop here in town?

G1GY · #3 10-30-2009, 04:32 AM

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Do you tattoo out of a shop here in town?

Blood Ink and Steel tattoo. One level of my home is also a fully equipped studio.

Jyman · #4 10-29-2009, 05:19 AM

Thats really not that bad of a scar. it will heal up nice.

My grandfather had a scar just like it, and after it healed it looked like yours but almost all of the red was gone from it. But my girlfriends scar is really bad looking compared to your. She had the same thing done when she was about 1 day old and the scar just never really healed that nicely.

freezetyle · #5 10-29-2009, 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Jyman

Thats really not that bad of a scar. it will heal up nice.

My grandfather had a scar just like it, and after it healed it looked like yours but almost all of the red was gone from it. But my girlfriends scar is really bad looking compared to your. She had the same thing done when she was about 1 day old and the scar just never really healed that nicely.

I am by no means complaining about the wounds i got. i know that it could have ended up being a lot worse. a few of my friends have scars from a few years ago that don't even look close to how my turned up. its really amazing what we can do now in terms of leaving as little of a trace as possible.

i would much rather have a line (or zipper) down my stomach then the condition its self,

Myka · #6 10-30-2009, 02:07 AM

Imo there is no magic cream or oil. I tried them all. I even tried a $250 scar cream and it didn't work any better than Polysporin cream. Joke's on me.

I have a scar on my arm from a chainsaw where I got 13 stitches on the inside and 21 on the outside (luckily it didn't get me too bad). It's about 6" long. It was a nasty scar before, but I had surgery done where a plastic surgeon (instead of the nip n hack emergency surgeon) cut out the old scar and sewed it back up in some funky way where the stitches weren't visible from the outside. It was called Scar Revision. It healed up really nice after that. I think I have some before and after shots I will try to find for you...

EDIT: Ok I found them...
WARNING: WOUND PHOTO

The spot the plastic surgeon cut out:

Today (11 years after initial wound, 8 years after scar revision):

BMW Rider · #7 10-30-2009, 02:42 PM

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Originally Posted by G1GY

How about tattooing a zipper over the scar?

I had that thought for the scar on my ankle. All it needs is the pull tab since the staples left a nice zipper effect all ready.

scar_11 · #8 11-06-2009, 03:04 PM

Scars are tattoos with just good Stories.

I have had 253 staples and stiches I have a couple scars