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 Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:19 am
Hidious. That's how I feel.
It sounds so shallow but they
really get me down. I would
have never complained about
the way I looked before Nath
came along.
Do they ever go away?
Gimme some hope, please ^_^
heart
Sorry if this is in the wrong
place. I haven't been here
in a while. Seems like there's
new rules >_+
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 6:54 am
I still have mine... but they go down if you use the Coco Butter stuff for strech marks. Mine were beet red, now their a soft pink.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:18 am
I still have my stretch marks and afterbirth flab sweatdrop and it's almost 5 months since I gave birth to my son. Use Coco Butter and excerise (doing that right now since I was sore for 2 months- C-section) 3nodding
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:37 am
I hate to be discouraging, but I say no. I don't buy into cremes.
Why? I used cocoa butter/stretch mark creme when I became pregnant under suggesstions from other people. I used it on my breasts, stomach, butt, hips, etc. Proof it didn't work? I have ZERO stretch marks in my stomach and horrendous ones on my butt, breasts, hips. I even got MORE after I had Logan from all the swelling in my legs.
Mederma (which is $30 a tube) is supposed to help new stretchmarks, but I'm not sure if it'll really work on older ones?
It's been 3 years since I've had my son. They're not that angry, painful red anymore, but they're not that "silvery" sheen everyone told me that would happen. Just my experience. If I had the money, I'd get laser treatment for them.
Not that there's been new rules, just a lot of new people who have had trouble following rules and keeping clutter down.
wink
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 12:16 pm
My kiddo is ten months old, and I've still got awful stretch marks - I'm at the point where I think I'm going to start saving money now to have them lasered in ten years when we can afford it xp gonk
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:02 pm
You can get lazer treatment?
o_O
Maybe one day I'll do that too.
Besides, I might well one day
have another child so I wouldn't
want to spend all that money for
nothing.
Ah well.
Ta for all your help
and expereiences ^_^
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:39 pm
I have marks from just weight gain (me and a bad months with depression) and I use cocoa butter. It does work, although not the way people think. No, nothing will make them vanish short of lazer stuffs. But Cocoa butter isn't made to stop stretch marks. What it does is soften and make supple your skin. It helps for slow marks, by giving your skin more moisture and stretchability. However, fast weight gain, sudden enlarging of an area, ect- no, that won't help. If you don't want lazer surgery, look for any balm with comfrey in it, but as with most natural remedies, don't expect them to work immediately or dramatically. It takes a long, long time for scarring to go away, and that's what a mark is- a scar from over-stretched skin.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:04 pm
I had stretch marks when I had my oldest they run vertical then when I got pregnant with the little one I got them horizontal. But the new ones aren't as dark as in my first pregnancy. They have all faded pretty well. I also have them everywhere I don't want them..hips,breasts, stomach, thighs and even my legs.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 4:06 pm
when i was younger, i got stretch marks from weight gane, they faided, they were beet red, now they are this metalic skin color, not that noticible unless you are stairing at them
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 7:04 pm
Think of them as your "badge of honor" They will fade with time but never completely go away.Coco Butter is supposed to help if you apply it at the beginning of the pregnancy.
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Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:52 pm
I got stretch marks at puberty (when I was 12), so they've never really bothered me, having always had them.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:31 am
I myself used coco butter several times a day religiously throughout my pregnancy and ended up without a single stretch mark due to my drastic weight gain. I went from 91 lbs to 180 during my pregnancy due to gestational diabetes. I did however get marks later on my breasts (which are very small and fiberous to start with) from breast feeding because you can't really use anything when you are feeding that way but the coco butter did help bring the marks back down in color as well as time itself. I do think however it has a bit to do with gemetics as well as some people just have more elastic skin to start with but I could be wrong.
My best friend however had the laser surgury some years back for her varicose veins and some of the stretch marks on her stomach and was very pleased with the results, but we are both older mothers of teens now so my input might be a bit outdated. smile
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:53 am
Oh it's really totally genetics. I read somewhere that even with all the "prevention" cremes, if you're going to get them, you will. The cremes just help it not be as bad.
Although I want to gag everytime they show celebrity pregnant moms without a single stretchmark looking perfect. I want to see a REAL famous person.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:20 pm
Oh, I'm sure those celebrities have stretch marks, but they also have some lovely airbrush artists working on their pictures so nobody sees the stretch marks.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:07 pm
Topaz_Rising_Flame I still have mine... but they go down if you use the Coco Butter stuff for strech marks. Mine were beet red, now their a soft pink. blah!! i used Coco Butter everyday morning & night, it didn't work at all...least not for me....i have BIG GIANT LONG MARKS >.< But i don't worry about 'em, lol. I can't see them unless i stand in front of the mirror lol.
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