Need Contractubex...Update #16

[Taz_Zoee]

With all the help you give to PTer's here, this is just a teeny bit I could do for you.
Glad it worked for you.

[Freedom]

Candace, how old is your scar? They decrease over the years. Mine is no longer the huge bump it was when I was 6 and got the polio shot which caused it. I had lots of "treatments" at the time, including having it cut out. My parents finally found a spcialist who told them to stop everything. I also have a small one on the back of a leg from a dog bite.

[Catty1]

It's about 5 months old.

I had heard about this stuff from Slick - she knows someone from Germany, whose daughter still lives over there and raves about the stuff.

It is supposed to help older scars as well...and there are a few acne scars I would like to try it on.

Ingredients are cepae(from onions), heparin, and allantoin.

I'll be reporting back!

Thanks again, Taz!

PS I got the shipping update via email today - they say 5 - 15 business days, and that it was shipped the 26th (over the dateline in Hong Kong?)

[slick]

Glad this all worked out for you Catty.

My housecleaner, Barbara, is German and her son and daughter-in-law still live over there. Her DIL had breast cancer surgery and she used this stuff and the scars are almost invisible....according to Barbara.

I was going to get some to put in my surgery scar but my arms aren't long enough to reach my back.

[Catty1]

slick - not trying to be funny here, I was just thinking of the little plastic spatulas that I now put certain skin products on with.

What about a regular kitchen spatula, but with the smaller rubber end? Might that work?

A little practice looking backwards in the mirror, maybe.

Just a thought.

[cassiesmom]

I don't know that I've seen it in stores ... and I don't know that a product containing heparin would be sold over the counter ... but I'll certainly go on the hunt for you catty.

[Catty1]

cassiesmom - I have already ordered it, so no worries. But thanks!

[Logan]

I haven't even clicked the link, yet, but good luck, Catty!

I am a keloid scar person, too. Thankfully, I have not had any major surgery that would leave a scar, but I know it would be awful if I did. My worst two scars are on my right shoulder and my right hand, but over time, they have settled down and aren't so red and raised anymore.

I had a pre-cancerous mole removed on my shoulder and the healing process was awful. I have had shots of steroids injected there, years ago, to try and calm down the redness. My mother is one of those people who scars badly and she was determined that I wouldn't have such a bad scar. I have no feeling in that area and if someone rubs it, I can't feel a thing. Strange stuff.

I had a bad burn on my right hand when I was in high school. We were making candy apples at church and I got some of that hot liquid on my hand. The healing process was awful and I didn't go to the doctor. I think my mother has always felt some guilt about that, but she shouldn't. They did what they thought was right at the time. That particular scar was awful, as if someone took a bite out of my hand, right where my thumb and index finger connect. I had surgery on that spot twice, by a plastic surgeon, who wasn't happy with the first results. He ended up going in that fleshy place where your thumb and index finger join, the second time, but still, I have a pretty nasty scar. At least it isn't red and "angry" anmore. Time has taken care of that.

Wish some of those miracle things were out there when mine were fresh. I went through lots of pain and trips to a neighboring city as a result, and probably would have been fine if they had just been left alone. Live and learn.

Good luck with your treatment. I hope it will help.

Logan

[NoahsMommy]

... and I don't know that a product containing heparin would be sold over the counter ...

That's what I was thinking too.

Catty, you don't want to put this over a LARGE area of your body if this indeed does have heparin in it. Heparin prevent clotting. Careful.