Does anyone know of a good strech mark cream? I know there is a new cream that's about to come out, and is still be tested by scientists, that prevents and erases strechmarks, and you never have to use the cream again once they are gone. But that isn't slated to come out for ohh 2 years give or take, and it's gonna be $40 a pop. <I'd spend that if it got rid of the marks!         whatever you do DO NOT GET cortisone injections.  i was told by a plastic surgeon that they would nearly erase the large and rather gruesom scars i have on my arms thanks to my military service.....yeah, well. They started out as big nasty red gashes.  after an extremely painful session wehre he stabbed me about 30 times in each scar witha  cortisone laden syringe, now i have big nasty red gashes with little white wormy looking things in them.  nice, huh?  at least they're a conversation piece...<sigh ante||pathy today i stole the sun from the sky, the color from the heart of a rose......today i took food from the hand of a starving child........

   whatever you do DO NOT GET cortisone injections.  i was told by a plastic surgeon that they would nearly erase the large and rather gruesom scars i have on my arms thanks to my military service.....yeah, well. They started out as big nasty red gashes.  after an extremely painful session wehre he stabbed me about 30 times in each scar witha  cortisone laden syringe, now i have big nasty red gashes with little white wormy looking things in them.  nice, huh?  at least they're a conversation piece...<sigh Argh, at least my experience with cortisone wasn't THAT bad... I have a tendency to form nasty keloid scars anytime I get a particularly deep wound; the biggest and ugliest is on my shoulder blade, where my old dermatologist sliced off a huge, suspicious-looking mole several years back. It wasn't malignant, thank the D*ck; but as it healed it formed a keloid 2 - 3 times bigger than the original incision. So he went for the cortisone shots...and after several rounds, it looked exactly the same. *shrug* As for the stretchmarks

Mare Being thin won't make ya happy- trust me. good thing to note Eileen (learning to be happy just the way she is)

Does anyone know of a good strech mark cream? I know there is a new cream I've tried using vitamin E oil on old scars and strech marks and it does help some.  I broke my nose two years ago and now you can barely see the scar on the bridge of my nose.  I'm working on loosing some weight and am trying to prevent such big strech marks from lasting, my mom swears by it.           I don't know, by the way, if anyone has any ideas on how to eat healthy on a college campus, let me know, my diet is pretty plain since there doesn't seem to be much low-fat stuff around.  Any ideas would be appreciated, cause this surely is slow going, but I'll get there. Thanks, Aloura

        I don't know, by the way, if anyone has any ideas on how to eat healthy on a college campus, let me know, my diet is pretty plain since         Salad and Cereal at the Dinning hall. I don't eat anything from my school that's either warm, or touched in any way by them besides pooring it out of a bag. It's a good rule to live by         Alan

: Carolyn you are the dissapearing woman...but you always reappear so it's : okay Kinda freaky, isn't it?  Kinda like David Copperfield gone wrong or something. : I used to work at a bagel shop...I would bring home all the unsold bagels : at the end of the day and we would put them in the freezer.  I also : brought home lots of cream cheese (for the boys...I hate the stuff). <nods  My boy eats bagels *every morning* and *every lunch*.  I'm sick of them by default.   : Now I work at a fancy restaurant..and every night I work the boy and I eat : a good dinner Thbbbbt.    I had corn chips for dinner tonight...whoo-hoo! -C., *pooof!* Off to disappear again for at least another minute...