Any quick suggestions on some meds?

[dar]

That I can get at a drug store or herbal store?Some thing for scars?I am going tommarow and I need some guick suggestion. Has any one heard of MSM?

[freedom]

hi dar,

second skin has scar therapy pads that i have never tried (your drugstore might have them or another brand).
cocoa butter is supposed to be good (probably at a health food store) maybe aloe vera gel.

ummmmm.....that is all i can think of right at the moment

also there is a whole message board on acne.org devoted to scars - you may want to check it out.

hope that helps
good luck

freedom

[tonkajoe]

try neosporin, after all it is an antiobiotic ointment. And in my life it must be the only thing I never tried, until recently after picking & picking & picking I'm looking around the house to find some miracle damn cure to apply to my face (I have applied everything from bleach to salt grains to laquer thinner)when i came across the neosporin, i used it & believe it or not it really does aid in healing much faster & preventing scars. I am applying a thin layer all over at night & during the day to "the spots" I've been on a long list of meds for bipolar and this as ocd. So far the very best for picking was Zoloft, but it wiped out my (our ) sex drive completely and this I (we) couldn't live with. The thing with me for some reason is meds only help for about 6 months & then like clockwork I'm at the docs to try something new. This last week she put me on Litium before bed and Lexapro in the morn. I'm coming off 6 mo of Prozac. 2 days havent't taken the Lithium because seems to me at some time i took someones lithium to get high, anyway scared of the potential to abuse. 2 days of Lexapro. One things for sure, meds are definetly the answer for me, don't get me wrong, I still pick, but not near as much, & the obsessive thinking that I'm ugly & disgusting for other people to look at doesn't haunt me near as much. Not too long ago a very good friend of mine, who does know about my picking (no way, does she know the extent) said to me "Try to remember that I've actually never scared a child away." I repeat this & it helps to control the thoughts, which in turn helps me not to spend so much (wasted & unecessary) time in the mirror.

[dar]

Right now I am using msm...its been worrking preety good,but not so great on areas that havent healed completly.I will give neosporn a try.thank you.I keep hearing all this talk about prozak and zoloft,but i dont understand why it would stop the picking.I'm not depressed.Im sorry, im confused.

[flippymanic]

Dar,

It doesn't have to do with being anti-depressants. They are SSRI's, and sometimes the SSRI's happen to work well for OCD behaviors, which is where this plays in. The specifics of it, I don't know. When it comes to the psych meds though, this happens a lot. They find a positive "side effect" of some med used in patients and end up using it for something else.

I have bipolar disorder, and along the way have taken meds primarily for seizures and psychosis. The anti-seizure med also gets rid of my miraines, a double bonus. Of course, with psych meds, everyone will respond different and what works for one person will not work for another.

Only one SSRI ever reduced my picking, dramatically, but it also made me manic, so we don't even do the SSRI's any more (and none of them really helped depression, what a hoot). For me, meds help picking indirectly in that if my bipolar is under control, the picking is reduced some. When that SSRI reduced it, I was a mental mess, but my skin cleared right up. Ha! The irony.

[bg]

citalopram....