About me

I wanted to share my journey to finding keloid treatments (in the US). I'm originally from Thailand. I been suffered from keloid for the past 30 years. I got the keloid scar from BCG vaccine when I was 5. Growing up with this scar on my arm makes me feel different, not in a good way. This ugly, itchy, painful scar It dictates what I do. It becomes who I am. I'm not going to lie. I do plan my life around it. I don't let people touch me or even get close to me. I don't go to swimming pool or any social event that requires me to wear sleeveless.

I think of my self as a keloid advocate. I been treating my keloid since I was 10. I have been monitoring how my keloid reacts to each treatment. I would say I'm an expert on my keloid in that sense. About 15 years agoI had treated it so much to the point that my keloid was completely flat. I was able to live carefree for about 10 years. Now it grew back even bigger. And I can't seem to find any doctor who I can trust to treat my keloid here. Whatever they do now just make it worse. I been to many different doctors. What frustrates me the most is that doctors think they know everything(from text book), but the truth is a lot of them don't know what they are doing when it comes to real life keloid. The fact is each keloid is different. A treatment that works for someone else, might not work for me. This has been years long battle and it's still continue.