this worked for me!!!

[sammie]

First of all , my picking started out very innocently as a teen. But then all of the sudden about 5 years ago BOOM . FULL BLOWN PICKER.
I now have four places on my face that I am trying to get to heal.
And let me tell you. They are healing.
Thanks to mederma.
When I first started using it it made my face bled, Then I started to see results.
It soaked down into my scars and caused them to slowly peel off.
When you take your shower.
RUB RUB RUB NOt sractch with your finger tips until
you feel the dead skin is gone.
Then apply the mederma as often as you can think about the next day. Then during shower time. DO the same thing RUB RUB RUB your skin.
I can't believe how it worked for me.
It might burn alittle.Well in fact it burned alot the very first time I put it on. I had to take my blow dryer and set it on cool and blow my face for about 5 minutes.
That is how long it hurt.
Only use the mederma on scars not deep open wounds.
I have tried about 15 different things and this worked wonderful.
I can't stop thanking God for giving me my face back.
My picking was severe. I had holes in my face. 4 to be exact.
As they healed though of course I had scar tissue to deal with. I went to several doctors. NO one could help me.
I do remember my last visit to the dermatologist. And the last thing he said was, " maybe try some mederma on those scars.
And I did. It will take a few more months for everything to heal completely.
I am through picking. Its just not worht it. I have a life to live. I am tired of picking. I want to live again.
Hope I have helped someone out there.

[sammie]

Also I was on Zoloft for about a year and a half.
the zoloft made my picking worse.
I have been off of it for about 2 years now and I am doing great without it.
I don't like taking those kinds of drugs. It only gave me a fake happy feeling when I took it anyway.
I really think it messed up something in my brain and made my picking worse.
I feel good now that I am off of it. I try to eat better too that helps.
I try to avoid caffeine for sure, especially after having a kidney stone episode / Caffeine is not my friend anymore. Oh I miss it and I love it.
I still have some ,but very very limited.

[Laura]

Hi Sammie,

I have been using Zoloft for a year and a bit now, and although it doesn't make my picking worse, it hasn't really helped my behaviour either. And I know exactly what you mean about the fake happy. All it does is make me happy on the outside, but on the inside I am just as depressed as I have always been. My parents say they notice the difference when I stop taking it, because I become really moody and bitchy to everyone. Basically, when I don't take it, my emotions are visable on the outside for everyone to see, but when I take it my stormy emotions become bottled up inside me. I guess its good in some ways, because then my family can live happily without feeling like I am causing WW3, but in other ways its bad because its not solving the problem, just hiding it.

[OboeThumb]

re: mederma
Does it work on calloused spots, e.g. cuticles that have been picked so much they have hardened?
Is it a prescription drug or can you get it over the counter?

[Teresa =)]

i have never take that kind of drugs.. i have take some cortisona and put some creams over my skin but i really get panic about the medicine... i dont know.... and my family also does.. when i take cortisona my mom told me hey u have to do it really good this time cause u cant play with that! well ....
anyway also my parents still repeting u dont have the csp u only want to beleive u have it cause i want an excuse to like feel better or say i get on touch whith what i read cuase i have read a lot of this kind of disorders.... right now i dont know what to think i only know i really want to healh really ... or not? what my subconsious say? !! crap! crap crap!
Teresa

[morpheusx]

Well I always had a small tendency to pick my scalp. Now I am using efexor as a treatment for a sleeping disorder (it makes me more active). Since I am using this I developed a real nasty skin picking disorder. Besides this negative side effect it works great, although maybe this side effect is worse then the therapeutic effect. 4 years ago I used prozac as treatment for depression (now I now this was actually a sleeping disorder). It also made me superficial and emotionless like u experienced with zoloft. Efexor doesnt have this effect. Efexor is also used to treat people with obssesive compulsive disorder. To me it has an opposite effect. I am having an appointment with my sleeping doctor to see if i could change dosage or use an entirely different medication. Maybe efexor is something for u Laura but be careful of opposite effects. Btw cognitive and behavorial therapy is seen as the best treatment for obssesive and compulsive disorders. Maybe that would be a solution.
greetzzz
Morpheusx

[downtimeheals]

Remember that antidepressants like zoloft are essentially ADDICTIVE (even though that's never the word psychiatrists use) and that when you go off a med like that you don't simply return to your previous state of mood; first you go through WITHDRAWAL, which can include major irritability and moodiness.

In other words, it's so important to remember to TAPER off such drugs slowly, half pill by half of a half pill by half of a half of a half pill...you get the idea. And don't get discouraged right away if you don't like what it feels like to go off the drug (as long as you're not becoming dangerously depressed, of course.) What you and the people around you are experiencing are NOT just the result of an "unmedicated you" returning, but a NEWLY unmedicated you going through a MAJOR chemical adjustment--namely, withdrawal.

For me, going off zoloft was horrible until it was really out of my system. And I was even still on a mood stabilizer the whole time, for bipolar mood disorder. Even so, I was a psychotic jerk until I realized I hadn't tapered off the zoloft slowly enough!

Good luck!

[Lucy]

I finally got some!!! ;D I'm so happy!!! I hope it works. I really need these scars to go away. I hate it
Kisses
Lucy