Attached is a picture of my marred skin. I already won’t be returning to this particular person, but can someone recommend something for my open sores/hyperpigmentation. This is extremely embarrassing and depressing. I’ve had equally bad work done on this area before (years ago) and ultimately it all healed, but it took a very long time and significantly reduced my quality of life. Would a dermatologist be able to recommend anything? Please help.
Is, for example, laser skin resurfacing a good idea to consider after the scabs fall off?
Your Picture looks so scary…Its your face i think so.What has happened to it…are you undergoing electrolysis…If its the case than wait for sometime and let your skin to heal itself…give your skin some time.Laser resurfaing is always an option …but wait and use it as last resort.
Your Picture looks so scary…Its your face i think so.What has happened to it…are you undergoing electrolysis…If its the case than wait for sometime and let your skin to heal itself…give your skin some time.Laser resurfaing is always an option …but wait and use it as last resort. :o 
The best advice I’ve read on the subject was:
“Don’t rush in to any surgical or laser treatment as there are always risks and your scars may improve on their own over the year.”
I totally understand why you’d want those gone today rather than tomorrow but as you know by now, healing has its own time table. We can only try to prevent these outcomes by shopping around for the best treatment we can get…
Slathering …
I’m continually struck by two things; 1) how we mistreat our skin, and 2) how we often don’t allow nature to “take its course” in the healing process. The skin is an organ.
If you had just had heart surgery, would you immediately start running marathons? Of course not, you would rest and give the heart time to heal. With skin injuries, we usually want to speed the process and even consider doing “laser treatments to prevent problems" (which will actually cause more problems). CATHY! “Chill the hell out!” Ha ha ha
A few weeks ago, Dr. Chapple was called into a case to do a skin graft from a post-surgical open-heart patient that was not “healing properly.” The patient had developed a tiny infection along the sutures (metal in this case). The heart surgeon had instructed the patient to use simple OTC Neosporin.
The patient had odd lesions all over her chest (even under her breasts) and was, in Chapple’s words, a real mess that didn’t look “right.” He discovered that as the “infection” spread, she applied more and more Neosporin. He got her completely off the salve and within two weeks the area completely healed. She did not need a skin graft! She was having a reaction to the Neosporin itself.
Always consider adverse reactions to the potions you so willfully slather on your poor skin. Allow the genius of healing to take place without interference … unless there is a specific problem (even then, proceed with caution on the goodies). Of course, nobody ever listens to this guidance because we LOVE to mess with our skin. Nicely, the skin heals in spite of our fiddling.
Pickers?
I’m working with a nice young fellow right now who is a PICKER! He has been tweezing out his beard (cheeks and necks) for years, and it’s a mess. The real problem is that he sees “ingrown hairs” from the tweezing and picks at them. Each time he comes in I see his “mysterious excoriations.” I warn him.
So far, he’s been lucky. But one-of-these-days he’s going to “pick himself” a nice staph infection that will eat a hole in his young face. Does he listen to my warnings? Well, he listens, but always shows up with these self-inflicted wounds … from his dirty fingernails. I’m only hoping we can finish-up without a disaster taking place.
Those who “slather” are sometimes “pickers.” BE WARNED!
Pickers and “surgeons”!!! One of my clients is a nurse and all areas are fine except her abdomen, where she admits that she uses a sewing needle and her fingers to squeeze and pick her skin. The affected area is also where her jeans rub (she retired from nursing to work on a farm). She takes no blame for the skin condition…
That skin might as well be on my face. No disrespect, but my ‘picking’ did not do that to my skin. A hot needle did. Now I just need it to go away. I can already see white hyper pigmentation forming and that’s fine, I’m very fair skinned. But I can’t stand the red.
Hi Cathy … I know you didn’t pick … didn’t say that at all.
As I said in my PMs, you just need to wait a bit before “doing” any drastic measures such as “laser resurfacing.”
Of course. The area is just especially sensitive/embarrassing (that picture is not of my face). I think I’m going to treat the area with ‘tend skin’ until the scabs fall off and then use some sort of vitamin E treatment for the dark spots.
Personally I wait at least a month or more before I use Tend Skin on treated areas.
Really? Why?
I think the question is why do you want to use this product?
What is it that you think you are doing, and what is the product going to do for the specific problem?
And why a Vitamin E product?
Think about this: I’m an avid gardener: I can’t get enough! I know that water and fertilizer are important … at the right time! So, what happens to a plant if I give it too much fertilizer? What happens to a plant that gets too much water?
You really recommend using nothing at all?
Unless there’s something specifically going on that a “potion” is targeting … doing nothing is “doing something.”
If you know a physician and can get a “copper poly-peptide” patch … that’s a nice idea: sort of food for the healing skin (that’s all). These dressings are used for hair transplants and I have a bunch of them …
I think these should be made up specifically for laser and electrolysis after-care. Take a look on-line.
Cathy,I totally agree with Micheal.Let nature take its course.You still have scabs. This is a sign that your skin is still healing.