Keloid Scar Removal

[kassy]

-Keloid scarring is a dysfunction of the normal healing reaction in which the body produces a huge excess of scar tissue. Its treatment is difficult and unpredictable, with different patients responding to different treatments. Reasonable treatments include re-excision of the scar, injecting the scar with steroids, lasering the scar flat, and placing pressure on the scar with a compressive dressing or silicon strip.-

I have had hydrocortisone treatment which involved injections into scar tissue but had to stop because I reacted to the shots. The Doctor has suggested surgical removal but he also said that it would probably grow back.
So has anyone had this type of scar tissue removed and if so, how did it heal ?
TIA

 

[yakko]

I have not had it but it does not sound like something I want. I hope you find something quick and easy that works.

 

[kassy]

Thanks yakko, so do I, they are painful.

 

[Doggiedog]

My good buddy got into a car accident when we were in college and had his Pathfinder T-boned by a Ford Escort that blew threw a stop sign at 50MPH. It flipped his car 6 times before it ended up on someone's lawn.

Fortunately, he survived but he had some pretty bad injuries. One of which was his forearm shattering the glass moonroof of his car and leaving a very nasty scar. He is asian and asians supposedly suffer from keloid scarring. He's gone through many operations were they take the scar and reinsert it back into the scar to make it smaller. It helped reduce the scar somewhat but it is still pretty prominent.

Now when anyone asks, he just tells them he got bitten by a shark. Looks like it.

 

[kassy]

Doggiedog - It sounds like he was very lucky to have survived.
The Doc had said that it was unusual for someone so fair to have keloid scarring.
Hopefully his scars wont grow.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

i work for a dermatopathology company (diagnose skin cancer), and we get some very gross specimen each day. just today i happened to see a keloid from someone's ear. damn the thing was huge!

 

[kassy]

lilcam - LMAO, thankyou, that makes me feel so much better. I have to clean my desk now, its covered with coffee.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

sorry!!! didn't mean to scare ya. sometimes i wonder why ppl wait so long to have such things
removed. i remember this HUGE thing from someone's back. i mean, do they not feel it on their back when they lay against it? i dont know, i'm not a doc so i can't bash the person. besides, it's not like the thing grew overnight. it had to be there for a while. anyways, good luck!

 

[kassy]

ROTF - you are making me feel better by the minute !! but I know what you mean, and thank you.