Keloids and my story-My posts have been deleted twice.
Like many of you Keloids have been apart of my life for a long time. One would appear than another would appear from a small irritation. I would go get them treated and I thought we were good to go. Then about 12 yrs ago I had female surgery and they made incisions on my stomach and those 5 small incisions became angry and keloids started to grow. I now have 8 scars on my stomach and I feel deformed. I got them treated with creams, silicone tape, steroid injections and then surgery and nothing worked.
When I saw this community I was excited because I thought I had found a place were I belonged and people could share in the pain and shame of scarred skin. I would log on from time and read many posts and one day I would post.
About 6 weeks ago, I decided I had enough of hiding and shame and feeling sorry for myself and said I want to do something about it. Enough is enough. I talked to just a few of my friends and I found out they have scars too (hypertrophic, surgical and keloid.) I said to myself, I have to do something to help us.
I started with an idea and then I began to reaching out to some people who can help me develop treatments that help so many people like us. I am willing to leave the US and relocate to another country to find a solutions to this problem.
I developed a survey and thought today will be the day that I muster up enough courage to ask people about their journey by taking a 2 minute survey and I was accused of using AI. Yes, I used it to help with a survey and some wording but this is my story and no one can take that away from me. I have lived with the pain and suffering and gone through emotion ups and downs going through the treatments that did not work.
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