Wednesday, February 15, 2012

My keloid today

After a recent steroid injection I had on Jan 20th. I have a photo update from Jan 27th for you to see.
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This photo was taken a week after the injection. I did 2 ultrasounds so far. One right after the injection and another one a week after. I showed the doctor the photos of the past treatments. He agreed that we should do the ultrasound right away instead of waiting 2 weeks. Which I think it's working! I can feel that my scar is much softer. The color looks much better than before. 

Although It still swell a little, I can see that the top right started to improve a bit. The keloid is thinning which is a great deal for me. Especially the top of my shoulder is constantly moving and the keloid tend to grow really fast in that area. On the other hand, the top left is still a problem to me. As you can see that it's still thick. And that weird white tissue started to form. I'm not sure what that is. That happened to me before in the past. It usually dry out and fall off. creating a hole on the surface of the keloid.(if you go back and look at older photos of my keloid..you see something like that on the bottom part of the keloid) I don't think it's a good thing because it will form more keloid over the "hole" area.

4 comments:

  1. Thank you for your posting.

    I have multiple keloids on my shoulders and one on my chest.

    I am seeing dermatologists in Canada right now. Hopefully the treatments will eventually work on mine. They are way too tricky to be treated even for those smarties ;)

    Cheers.

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    1. Hi Thank you for checking out my blog. I'm glad I can connect with someone else who shares the same problems. How are yours doing? I actually would recommend you to see a plastic surgeon for this, of cause depending on the size of your keloids.

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  2. Hi! I have a large keloid on my chest from open heart surgery and I just started a blog documenting my journey to hopefully get rid of it! I would LOVE for you to follow my blog and we can support eachother along this what seems like impossible journey! :)

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  3. A keloid will tan darker than the skin around it if presented to sun amid the principal year after it frames. The darker shading may not leave. Keloids Symptoms include: Pigmentation of the skin, Irritation, Pain, Affectability, Redness, etc.

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