Tanning beds

[Kfamr]

Originally posted by carole


Well Tikeyas_ mom, you are young, and your attitude is very normal, one day you will wake up and I hope for your sake it is not too late.

Not ALL young people are like that. I must not be "Normal".

[Karen]

A few years ago, Paul and I helped an friend of mine move. Chris and I are the same age, grew up in the same town, etc. After we went home that day, he asked "What happened to her skin? What's wrong with it?" And I said, "What are you talking about?" and he described what he meant, and I said "Oh, yeah. Chris used to get really tan in the summer, she was a lifeguard, too." That was the difference, I am pale, always have been, wore high-SPF sunblock (and I burn anyway, it's just not as bad) and didn't lie out in the sun. We were 33, and Paul noticed a huge difference in the health of our skin.

Tikeya's Mom, the "tanning" you are doing now is what could kill you later. It is not an instantaneous thing. Most of a person's sun expose comes in the first 18 years of their life. Yes, on of the high-school life guards in my hometown DID get skin cancer while he was still in high school, but for most people, it develops later in life from the expose we get earlier.

Someone said "skin cancer is easily cured if caught early" - ammend that. SOME common types of skin cancer are easily cured if caught early enough. Others are not, and are deadly. One of the people who was at our wedding was dead from skin cancer within the year.

You may think "tanning" is harmless, it's not. I do not hide from the sun, but neither am I stupid about it. I am sorry for you, and hope you will be luckier than most, but don't pass judgement so quickly on people who avoid tans, okay?

[Pam]

Well I might as well chime in here as I did have a patch of basal cell carcinoma removed from my left arm about 5 years ago. When I was a child (11 yrs. old) we were vacationing in Florida and back then my parents didn't know about sunblocks, etc. (maybe they weren't even invented yet! ) I can remember it like it was yesterday. We were watching some water skiing event at Cypress Gardens (don't even know if that place is around any more.... ) and I could feel the heat beating on my left arm. Anyway, my arm blistered badly. Long story short - many years later - Presto! Basal Cell Carcinoma! Fortunately that is not the nasty cancer like a melanoma would have been and I am certainly thankful for that!

Tikeyas Mom - you may do whatever you please with your life and your body. That is your choice. The problem is that the choices you make today may come back to haunt you tomorrow. I don't smoke and I don't bake in the sun, both for the same reasons. It's just not good for me. Enough said.

[anna_66]

Originally posted by Kfamr
Why argue about it?

My thoughts exactly Kay

[babolaypo65]

Yep. Gotta agree. Sadly, I assume I will develop skin cancer at some point. I take care of my skin now... but I was born and raised in NM (very high, no humidty. read:very high UV rays). I was a pool rat, and I'm blond. I was always very, very tan growing up. And burned my nose at least once a year. I'm 38 now. I keep covered now, and have my hair dresser look at my scalp often, and I look for moles and changes, but I still figure it's inevitible. We just didn't know then. Heck, we put coconut OIL on our skin. Hello? Oil is for cooking things....

Tan looks good, I still think so. But it's really not worth it.

[carole]

I don't think everyone is arguing over the tanning issue, most of us agree with the exception of probably one, that tanning is harmful, most of us just want to inform this person a little better.

Sorry Kay-Ann I forget that some YOUNG ONES have wise heads on their young shoulders.

[CathyBogart]

I've found that 90% of menfind pale women more attractive anyways, at least the ones that I talk to. I'm proud to be pasty! ^.^

[RubyMutt]

Originally posted by carole
I don't think everyone is arguing over the tanning issue, most of us agree with the exception of probably one, that tanning is harmful, most of us just want to inform this person a little better.

Yes, that's all I'm trying to do.

[tikeyas_mom]

Originally posted by Kfamr




And.... T_M,

You're almost 17... And Graduating?!?

yes I started kindergarden when I was 4 turning 5. So that makes me younger then everyone eles, I was born in september and believe it or not but ya, I am not even the yougest in my grade!!! lol . My best friend turns 17 in October and she is 16 right now. I alos have a friend who turns 17 in december and she is 16 right now going into grade 12 like me. it is common to graduate at 17-18 here.

[Kfamr]

That was very hard to understand but, WOW.

I always thought you to be much, much younger.

[primabella]

Yeah in Canada we graduate a year early. I also thought you were younger...

Why argue about it?

My thoughts exactly Kay

I agree, if she wants to tan, let her be. It's her own fault that she'll look like a wrinkly ol' prune at 40 ( ) Some people just don't like the facts, nothing you can do.

[apcrs5122]

Since I go to races (horse, barrel racing) every weekend starting in the morning and ending around 1am, I do get tan. I always wear sunscreen, at least spf45. I have to wear jeans and boots, but I wear tank tops just because it is so hot out. My arms are about the only place where I'm really tan, maybe my face/neck, but not as much. And with my arms being tan, they really aren't that dark. Quite a bit darker than my legs (), but they aren't really brown.


It is a fact that tanning beds do cause skin cancer, they're just as bad as being out in the sun. I don't go out and bake, I don't want to grow up and be a prune

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by tikeyas_mom
yes I started kindergarden when I was 4 turning 5. So that makes me younger then everyone eles, I was born in september and believe it or not but ya, I am not even the yougest in my grade!!! lol . My best friend turns 17 in October and she is 16 right now. I alos have a friend who turns 17 in december and she is 16 right now going into grade 12 like me. it is common to graduate at 17-18 here.

That's like me. I started kindergarten in September at four years, then I turned five in October. So I'm younger than most of my friends and alot of others in my grade. So I'll be graduating at 17.

[puppygrrl4eva7]

I havent been tanning since last winter but I love going because it is so warm and cowsy .

LoL me too, I just lay back and relax for my 10 mins of warmth. And Yes I know tanning beds can cause cancer, but how many of you go to the pool, beach, park, just outside at all this whole summer? I have been to the pool no more than 5 times the entire summer. I've stayed inside almost the whole summer. And the last time I went to the bed was honestly about a month ago, I don't go like every day I just go to get a little pigmentation in my skin,other than white! So if you guys go outside this summer you have the same risk we do for cancer Like I said I go for 10 minutes and I stay inside mostly. And for the people who "like" being pale eck I am so pale the purple under my eyes makes me look like I'm dead. This one bi*** in my gym class would see my legs and say "you have like purple circles on your legs" (cuz I'm so pale) Everyday she said this and I'm like yea I think ya told me that, 100 times, so could ya shut the hell up already?!

[GoldenRetrLuver]

Yup, I have to watch out in the sun. My dad had skin cancer on his face and they had to go surgery to remove it. He can't feel one side of his nose, but other then that, hes okay.