r/Keloids

I’ve occasionally browsed this sub over the years looking for advice and hoping to find a miracle cure.

I’m a woman who had a lot keloids on my chest and back for the past 15 years. I’m talking bad enough that one derm took photos for his textbook he was publishing 💀 I have two from a mosquito bite, one from hitting my shoulder accidentally on a shelf, many more from acne…just a very sensitive body.

I’ve seen over 7 derms and 2 plastic surgeons over the years and never had results. I’ve had some big lows (too embarrassed to wear tank tops, swimsuits, strapless dresses, I hate v neck shirts), I remember worrying about dating and meeting someone and taking my shirt off. I gave up on medical interventions and worked on self acceptance. I don’t know how else to say it but if you need to hear this, you can find love, people can see beyond your scars, and hiding away will only hurt in the long run. You deserve a happy and fulfilled life and good people won’t judge you or make comments about you beyond perhaps an initial curiosity.

Ok the real meat. I saw a new derm when the night pain got bad recently and after not seeing one for 4 years and suddenly my body starts responding to keloid injections. ALL OF MY SCARS ARE FLAT!! I told her she changed my life and I had to know what she did that was so different than everyone else. Kenalog 40, she wiggles the needle on insertion so it’s shooting around the whole scar. It worked significantly better when I went every 4 weeks, she tried pushing to six once and I didn’t see results. That’s it, it’s so crazy to me that I never had results before but no doctor was willing to see me every 4 weeks. I still have some discoloration on the ones that are just flat but some of the ones where I had some atrophy, the redness disappeared and they filled in within a month so I almost wish she would do it to the others too (but says I need to do pulse dye laser).

I don’t know I guess I just wanted to say I had gone years giving up and now they’re gone and I can’t believe it. There’s hope out there for us, really there is.

Random note: dermablend is an amazing foundation that they use to cover tattoos on movie sets and is what I had primarily used to blend my scars when they were visible

Hello, does anybody have any Eclar plasters availible?

I had a very severe acute dermatitis reaction on my neck and my face. Right now it feels like some spots want to form into keloids. I’m trying to prevent before that happens. Right now I’m just using silicone scar sheets.

For context, I have a cousin, my mother's sister's daughter, she had keloid after a helix. I had previously gotten two helix and two other piercings but they are all closed, I got a helix done again but im kinda worried

When I was in my 20s, I got two large tattoos on my upper arms. Both healed completely normally with no keloids. I haven’t gotten any since.

A few years ago, I had a mole removed from my sternum, and that scar turned into a keloid. It’s the only keloid I’ve ever had. I’ve also had plenty of cuts over the years that healed normally.

I really want to get more tattoos, but having that one keloid makes me nervous. Would you consider my two previous tattoos healing normally a good sign, or would you avoid getting more tattoos altogether?
I’m also thinking about getting my ears pierced again, so curious about that too.

Anyone else in a similar situation? Did you continue getting tattoos after developing a keloid?

Or make a thread for them and pin it. I’m so tired of all the same posts from people who cannot even look up what do keloids look like. These literally feels like a rage bait posts for me as a person who has many keloids. I feel like this community should be a place where a minority which we are can share our concerns, treatments and progress and not a random chatgpt Q&A.

I would’ve understood if people had something that would be genuinely hard to distinguish from keloids but they just post whatever mini pimple they have.

I'm southeast asian female, 21 years old.

I have several keloids from acne on my breasts that I've treated with kenacort and eclar plaster.

They're all completely flat now, but the color remains the same. What are the treatment options for the discoloration?

My keloids are mostly dark brown, some are more red-ish than the others.