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I recently had 4 punch excisions done...I think 2 will come out really well, one just ok, and the last one has been made bigger.
In researching punch excisions, it seems like there is about a 50% chance you take when you decide to do this. So I would make your decision based on that average.
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In Topic: 4 Excisions Done Today!
28 January 2007 - 04:01 PM
QUOTE(delta force operators @ Jan 13 2007, 12:58 AM) 
yeah ur excissions do look quite small im thinking for my scar wich is a large ice pick with massive tissue loss couse it sinks in and the diameters is about the size of the tip of a pencil eraser i was wonder what u were gonna do with these type of scars?
Punch floats followed by erbium laser.
In Topic: 4 Excisions Done Today!
28 January 2007 - 04:00 PM
Hey all,
Sorry it's been so long since I posted. So, Jan. 10 had the excisions. Stitches taken out on Jan. 17. Still healing.
A few things I want to touch on that I'm not sure others have really touched on. I WAS NOT psychologically ready for these excisions and I scheduled them at the worst possible time of the month for me. I went into full scale PMS right at the time I had the stitches taken out. I broke out in places I've never even dreamt I would break out because of trying to keep the excisions dry--my eyelids for heaven's sake!--and along with my mood swings, have had a really tough time handling the healing. I still haven't really left the house (thank goodness for Safeway.com!) or if I have, have not left my car. So, ladies please consider timing if you are prone to PMS.
Also, after my doctor took out the stitches he put on steri-strips and told me to keep those on for a week. Well, with my oily skin this didn't really work. They were starting to come undone by the 4th day. So, if your doctor puts steri-strips on you, ask for back-ups in case they do fall off.
Back to the scars, the one on my left cheek appears to be healing the best...I see it becoming about the size of an enlarged pore but it still has blue pigmentation (the color of the stitching material) which the doctor said was hemorrhaging. The other 3 don't have this coloration so I'm not quite sure what it is and am just waiting to see if it goes away. The area around the scar is slightly inflamed creating a doughnut effect around the excision, so I won't get a true reading on this scar until the inflamation goes down.
The scar on my nose is smaller, but it makes the one right next to it more prominent.
And the two on my right cheek, well, the smaller, lower one seems to be closing up or at least a little smaller, but the one next to my nose, well, if you hear your doctor say the anesthesia has smeared the mark
, feel free to tell him to pass on excising it. He did not actually get the ice pick, but managed to punch right next to it, so currently this one appears larger. Also, on these two, the stitches were fairly tight, sitting down in the scar as opposed to the other two where the stitches sat on top of the excision.
So, I think I will be happy with 3 of the excisions. All of them are still discolored and it is just so very hard to get a good reading on them yet. I haven't been taking pictures because I was pretty depressed for a bit, but will ask my husband to take some shortly.
And, I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but my doctor had no mirrors in the room where he removed my stitches. Luckily I had a compact in my purse and I did take a look at them, but for men out there I guess you could always ask to see them before bandages cover them up again.
Okay, that's about it. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!
Sorry it's been so long since I posted. So, Jan. 10 had the excisions. Stitches taken out on Jan. 17. Still healing.
A few things I want to touch on that I'm not sure others have really touched on. I WAS NOT psychologically ready for these excisions and I scheduled them at the worst possible time of the month for me. I went into full scale PMS right at the time I had the stitches taken out. I broke out in places I've never even dreamt I would break out because of trying to keep the excisions dry--my eyelids for heaven's sake!--and along with my mood swings, have had a really tough time handling the healing. I still haven't really left the house (thank goodness for Safeway.com!) or if I have, have not left my car. So, ladies please consider timing if you are prone to PMS.
Also, after my doctor took out the stitches he put on steri-strips and told me to keep those on for a week. Well, with my oily skin this didn't really work. They were starting to come undone by the 4th day. So, if your doctor puts steri-strips on you, ask for back-ups in case they do fall off.
Back to the scars, the one on my left cheek appears to be healing the best...I see it becoming about the size of an enlarged pore but it still has blue pigmentation (the color of the stitching material) which the doctor said was hemorrhaging. The other 3 don't have this coloration so I'm not quite sure what it is and am just waiting to see if it goes away. The area around the scar is slightly inflamed creating a doughnut effect around the excision, so I won't get a true reading on this scar until the inflamation goes down.
The scar on my nose is smaller, but it makes the one right next to it more prominent.
And the two on my right cheek, well, the smaller, lower one seems to be closing up or at least a little smaller, but the one next to my nose, well, if you hear your doctor say the anesthesia has smeared the mark
, feel free to tell him to pass on excising it. He did not actually get the ice pick, but managed to punch right next to it, so currently this one appears larger. Also, on these two, the stitches were fairly tight, sitting down in the scar as opposed to the other two where the stitches sat on top of the excision.So, I think I will be happy with 3 of the excisions. All of them are still discolored and it is just so very hard to get a good reading on them yet. I haven't been taking pictures because I was pretty depressed for a bit, but will ask my husband to take some shortly.
And, I don't know if anyone else has mentioned this, but my doctor had no mirrors in the room where he removed my stitches. Luckily I had a compact in my purse and I did take a look at them, but for men out there I guess you could always ask to see them before bandages cover them up again.
Okay, that's about it. Hope everyone is having a good weekend!