Okay - so I am VERY fair skinned. My paternal grandmother was an albino. My heritage is scottish/irish/german/french ... so very fair skinned and thus, bruise and scar very easily.

I researched a bit on remedies to help fade scars and one of the items that came up and, surprisingly had good reviews, was PreferOn (you know by the same people who have those obnoxious commercials about headon?) Anyway, I purchased a stick of it last night - looks like a jumbo chapstick. It was $10.69 at Wal-Greens.

It says it's for old and new scars, no matter how old. I'm to apply it to the scars 3-4 times a day for 3-5 months. So, I started last night and will follow-through with the process and let everyone know if it works.

Anyone else have any other tried and true suggestions?

Inquiring minds want to know. :001_tt2:

My scars are barely visible at 9 months out and I didn't do anything to them. Do you have a problem with scaring in general?

Well I wil be interested. they could not use the buterfly stiches and the glue cause they used the same holes as three times before!!! so I have actual stiches on four of them. The other was fine with the glue!

I was going to look into something.

THough I know the ones I had with the glue were so very small after 6 months the only one you could see was the port one (for the band) and that one they left alone this time.

I ordered Mederma (the big tube) for 20 bucks from skinwest.com and got free shipping. For the revision surgery, he used the port incision and added 2 little lap sites. He made my scar from the port incision look amazing. I don't what the technique is called, but I barely have a scar, it just looks like a line. He used the glue on top of all the incision. I mainly got the Mederma for the old scars, and for the one scar on my boob from a mole removal I had done in May.

The Mederma says apply 3-4 times daily and look for results in 6-8 weeks for new scars, and 3-4 months for old scars.

Several plastic surgeons have told me the creams for scars don't work and that the best therapy is preventative... keep them out of direct sun.

My scars are barely visible at 9 months out and I didn't do anything to them. Do you have a problem with scaring in general?

Yes, I scar very very easily

Several plastic surgeons have told me the creams for scars don't work and that the best therapy is preventative... keep them out of direct sun.

As for keeping them out of the sun, well that shouldn't be a problem. Although DF and I do belong to a nudist group (sorry if TMI) and there is a party on the 4th, I don't intend to be barring all this time. And when I am out in the sun, I use an SPF of 45 ... don't laugh ... it's what I need ...