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Daycare teacher asked me if I had a smudge on my face today (thats how deep it is), then turned beet red and said "Oh no sorry! It's nothing." This man has robbed me of any dignity.
oh my goodness people can be such jacka**es sometimes! how are you today? i really feel for you and am sendings hugs and prayers your way 
try to hang in there.
Daycare teacher asked me if I had a smudge on my face today (thats how deep it is), then turned beet red and said "Oh no sorry! It's nothing." This man has robbed me of any dignity.
oh my goodness people can be such jacka**es sometimes! how are you today? i really feel for you and am sendings hugs and prayers your way
try to hang in there.
No she didn't mean anything by it, she thought she was helping I'm sure :\ Was kind of awkward with her today I rushed in and out. I want so badly just to tell people someone did this to me! I'm not a freak 
To be honest I'm not doing great today. I used to love Fridays.
Had a breakdown with my sister over the weekend, just cried for two hours. I just can't imagine I'll ever go back to normal. My parents are visiting now, they keep saying oh its not that bad, and it will go away (my mom had one of those cortisone shots that dented her elbow for 6 months). I want to believe them but I can't, I'm such a monster. I'm filled with so much hate for that dermatologist its not even funny.
awe so sorry to hear that you are so sad but its good that you are talking to your family about it and its even better to know that your mom had one and her's filled in as well. i am sure your indents will fill in it just wont happen as fast as you want it to which sucks so bad right now but just try to stay strong and know that it will get better. it will all be ok soon enough just give it a full 6 months before you decide to do anything. i dont know if you can use dermaflage to fill in the indents for now but it might help you feel better about yourself for the time being. google it when you get time. i am sending hugs and prayers your way again.
awe so sorry to hear that you are so sad but its good that you are talking to your family about it and its even better to know that your mom had one and her's filled in as well. i am sure your indents will fill in it just wont happen as fast as you want it to which sucks so bad right now but just try to stay strong and know that it will get better. it will all be ok soon enough just give it a full 6 months before you decide to do anything. i dont know if you can use dermaflage to fill in the indents for now but it might help you feel better about yourself for the time being. google it when you get time. i am sending hugs and prayers your way again.
I did order it actually, but because I'm on (or just finished) accutane it just really irritated my skin, and since these are around my mouth, it looked super fake :\ I only tried it twice though, I'm hoping if skin gets less irritated I can try again, although the skin is so thin there I'm reluctant to even touch it at all...
I get physically sick looking at my skin.
that sucks that it irritated your skin. i dont think i would try it again unless you get desperate. i have felt like you where i have looked at my skin and just was like sick to my stomach about it. its such an awful feeling and most people dont understand which can be very frustrating. just know that it is going to be ok and once these indents fill in you will be doing so much better. seriously though i know its hard but try to get some exercise everyday that will help boost your mood and make sure you are getting plenty of rest and just taking good care of yourself. try to do something everyday that you enjoy as well. i think it helpful to take pics of your skin every month or so because sometimes we cant really see the changes ourselves so much.
hmm its worse? when did you get the shots again? why dont you make an appt with another derm to just get a second opinion. it cant hurt at this point and it might make you feel better about things. i know for me my indents got worse for a month then they started to get better but if this has gone for over 2 months then you should really see somebody else about it.
I know you don't want to do anything crazy or be aggressive because of what happened last time, but if you don't do something now you may always wonder if you should have. I would take her this study and just say this is what I want.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16188192
And here's another article..I'm sure there are tons of things you could find.
I actually sent her both of those articles before the visit. She spoke to other doctors and a plastic surgeon and they all felt it would just bruise me or make it worse. They also said it wasn't for my kind of atrophy, which I guess they meant the bound down part or something...
The last time I went I made her touch them and stretch, before she was just looking at them. After she touched them is when she said I will probably see the most benefit from laser and subcision. They do flatten for the most part (very thin line is seen I think just because the skin itself is so thin) And then told me to stop looking at my face, that I will see improvement monthly not daily. So I'm getting two answers at once. I just called her and left a message that I think it's still worsening and I'm very worried. We'll see :\
Went to a prestigious university dermatology clinic today. Both the resident and the doctor definitely felt bad for me, but they told me not to do anything for a year, that I might be amazed at how the skin heals itself. Recommended Dr Gladstone if no improvement for fillers/subcision/whatever. Perhaps I would believe that if I wasn't just off accutane and feel like all of my scars have just gotten deeper.
Technically, when I look at pictures they are improving. But they still look like shit and therefore so do I.
You know I think the fact that it is improving is absolutely fantastic news. That means it's moving in the right direction and who knows how much it will improve on its own. Keep updating as the months go by on how you're doing. I know for me my cortisone atrophy never improved and it's been over a year - but I believe there is actual scarring going on in addition to the atrophy if that makes any sense. But if yours is improving then that's probably not the case for you.
How did you find out about this university dermatology clinic? I wouldn't even know how to get in with them around here.
My dermatologist actually recommended that I go see them when I told her I thought it was getting worse. It only started improving randomly this week. If you have any good universities in your area, its worth calling and asking if they have a dermatology clinic or if there is a teaching hospital nearby. Mine was Stanford and they have a few teaching hospitals in the area so it was more obvious.
I do think I have scarring too, the atrophy went way beyond that though, so I don't think I'll ever get it back. They did say they thought they could make it unnoticeable with fillers (the one doctor had experience treating lipoatrophy, probably with an aids patient)
Hi. I'm following this thread and just want to send good thoughts your way. I'm too am worried about a few dents from cortizone shots I received last week as well. Please keep us updated on your progress. I'm starting accutane in a few weeks. Did you say accutane made your scars worse?
Ditto on the positive thoughts. I truly hope it works out for you.
While my issues aren't due to cortisone, my ex-derm caused damage to my face too. I fell into a deep depression. I am better now thanks to meds, therapy and an amazing family.
Get yourself on anti-depressent meds if you need to. There is no shame in it. We all need a little help sometimes.
Thanks guys, I did end up in therapy and on meds because of this and I'm doing a lot better mentally. I just couldn't take being depressed anymore. My face still looks just as bad and I'm over 3 months in so I don't think it's going to get any better than the slight amount it has.
Accutane did make my scarring worse. Spots that were only red marks for months suddenly became indented during my course, I think accutane slowed the healing way too much. But I'm just glad I'm not breaking out anymore.