Kelloid scarring anyone?

ailuro2

Does anyone here have any Kelloid scars, and have you had any successful treatments for them?

I'd love mine to somehow disappear,and although I know that's never going to happen,if I could just get mine to flatten down a bit I'd be happier about them.
They are on my shoulder and chest regions, not scarring from an operation,they just gradually appeared.

I had the first batch that appeared on my shoulder 'shot' with steroids to try to thin the skin,but it was agony and didn't help.

Anyone had any other treatments that actually helped?

SoozyJ22

I have a big scar on my chest that almost went keloid, but luckily stopped at the hypertrophic stage (lumpy and wide and nasty but not going outside the boundary of the scar). I had the injections too and I sympathise because the pain was almost as much as the surgery that caused it!

There are creams and patches you can get from places like Boots - click here for some of them. I've not used them, but know people who they've helped.

HTH

ailuro2

Thanks I have Bio-Oil unfortunately no change, will try the plasters though- I'm willing to try anything.

daisy_doughnut

hi there

my daughter has kelloid's
apparently quiet rare in white caucasion
she has a nasty one on her inner thigh its about 6 inch long an 3 inch wide she fell from her bike when she was 10 an another nasty one on her knee

my doctor is great as he suffers to as she is only 13 now he gave her some gel like plasters its faded it slightly he said to bring her back an try some other creams she doesnt like the sound of the injection but what 13 yr old would but im sure that as she gets older she will have a complex about them

doctor has spoke about cosmetic surgery but as you will know this can sometimes make the scare worse

the gel sheets are called Cica Care gel sheets
i know that what doesnt work for some may work for others

good luck xx

ailuro2

The injections were really awful- apparently they have to shoot the steroids in to prevent the skin realising it has been penetrated.

I will ask my Dr about those Cica care sheets next time I'm there, and make a start on the plasters for now.

Many thanks for sharing- I hope she grows out of it- apparently the tendency can come and go, unfortunately in about 12 years I have had another one appear every few months, so the tendency never went away.

If it did then cosmetic surgery would be a possibility.
Maybe something will be invented soon to break down the tissue without incision?

Vashti

My son amputated his thumb when he was five - long long story..one of those freak accidents. He was playing around on a low wall, found the end of an an old copper pipe embedded in the stones, stuck his thumb in, as curious boys do - got it thoroughly stuck so he stood up to try to get it out and wobbled and fell off the wall leaving his thumb behind.

Anyway, they managed to reimplant it, he is 17 now and it works almost as well as the other (it snapped between the two joints) but he had terrible scars all over his hand and up the inside of his arm where they had to open him up to get the tendon rejoined. Although we were obviously glad he had his thumb back of course, were concerned they would get bigger and more gnarled as he grew. We were told to massage the scars - hard - not just like rubbing in the bio oil. You have to really move and manipulate the skin with your fingers, once a day and after a few months his raised keloid scars were flat and white - you can hardly see them. Also used the cica patches.

fruitcake_2

Wow, was going to search online to check if anyone else had a solution to this also!!
My sister has had keloid scarring; three on her shoulder and some very large ones on her chest since she was 13, she is now 30. Apparently from chicken pox scars. Shes a fair skinned asian female, and this was seen as quite unusual. They gave her, as you had, steroid injections that only seemed to not only make the keloids bigger but her chest size expanded immensely (and as a result she suffers with back pain), they attempted cosmetic surgery six years ago whereby they attempted to cut the keloid and stitch up the skin, as a result the inevitable happened and the area that was stiched developed into a keloid. She used silicone patches to try to smooth the scars. Then she had another cosmetic procedure two years ago where they attempted to take a very large patch of skin from her posterior and use it on two of the keloids on her chest, in the hope that it would act as new skin and the result was supposed to be that the skin would grow smooth (still a risk of the scarred area where the skin was removed from becoming a keloid). Unfortunately her chest being so large she has had to wear a very tight support bra, even to bed, and the scar tissue seems to look very much the same if not bigger. To add to the complications, she complained of a pain after the first operation on her shoulder for years but the doctors said that it was nothing...BUT last month after I examined the area and found something very sharp but small poking out by the edge of one of the keloids...I got the tweezers and pulled the longest transparent stitch I've ever seen...it was like something out of a movie....they had left one in from all that time ago!! Poor thing...
Anyway thats a legal matter which needs looking into...

The ointments that she found made a slight difference were bio oil, and rose oil...very expenive but get only the genuine stuff (neals yard is a good source). The patches are quite expensive but you can get them on prescription. They are the things that have been shown in studies to flatten the keloids, but they have to be worn 24/7, and changed quite often to make a difference.
I hope you find a solution, will keep you posted if I hear or see any positive break throughs for this

pink123_2

Hi, I have a small nasty keloid scar on my arm and last summer I noticed whilst on holiday that it started to get better!!! So I think sunbathing/UV light could help because mine improved so much after being in the sun.

emerald2007

I have heard a keloid on my chest for about 4 years. I have tried
elicina, kelocote, hei ba gao (this one is from thejamushop.com
website) and none of these products worked. I then found of a place
called the bumps center (http://www.bumpscentre.co.uk/index.htm). These
people are good at removing keloids but the issue I am finding is that
my chest keloid keeps coming back. They have a cream called the keloid
cracker- what they do is they apply this cream on the keloid and leave
it on the keloid for about a week. This cream burns like hell and it
hurts like nothing I have ever experienced before. However, the cream
works, it sort of eats up the keloid and the whole lump somehow turns
into a rubber which just peels off. Great! However, the issue is that
when the skin begins to heal, it starts to thicken up again, and then
you get back to square one. I have been going there for my chest keloid
since April, and have had numerous applications of the cracker, it
removes the keloid, the keloid starts to creep back again, and they
apply the cracker again! They do offer cryotherapy but I believe for it
to work it has to be applied done more than twice a week. I have twice
applications of cryotherapy and this has not prevented the keloid from
coming back. The setback is each time you go for treatment you have to
pay £10 per session. And if you need to get it more than twice that is
at least £30. The treatment session costs are in addition to the set
amount you will be charged for the whole treatment. I was charged £1500
for a keloid on my chest which is about 1cm long. Since then I have
been going twice a week, totalling £20 a week, excluding the transport
costs of going into London.

What I would advise for someone
wanting treatment, is to opt for the home treatment, as it is cheaper
to get the lotions and treat yourself at home. If you apply the keloid
cracker to the keloid it works the same way whether they put it on you
or you do it yourself.
2. You should try and arrange cryotherapy
on the NHS so you dont have to go and pay £10 per session. Cryotherapy
is just to help with preventing the keloid from reforming, but results
are of course not guaranteed.

As I write, I still have to figure out what to do with the scar on my chest which reforming into a
keloid and of course a bigger one.

The point is the bumps centre does have a cream which removes the keloid, it works the same
way as surgically removing the keloid. However, the treatment does not
stop keloids from recurring. You will be able to get rid of the keloid
but as far as stopping it from coming back, ei that is another issue
which I am currently battling. I think tomorrow I will head off to
Boots and get some patches to try and cover the scar as it is
thickening up fast. I have met another keloid sufferer who seems to have the same problem. In fact some patients have been going there for 2 years! At £10 twice a week!

frivolous_fay

Stupid question... what's a keloid scar?

I have scarring but I have no idea what kind.

BarmyCow

I have used the Cica-care patches ( on prescription from my GP) and they really are good - feel confident about my trachy scar now and lets face it, I can't wear polonecks all year round !

It was recommended to me by a couple friends as well as my GP and I found it just as good as they said.