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unknown
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9 years ago

scarring

Hi there, has anyone tried 'skin needling' to reduce the scarring around the nipple area.  I had a mastectomy and reconstruction, was surprised with the scarring around the nipple.  even with tattooing, the scarring is (to me) fairly obvious. thanks.
  • thanks, yes its helpful. great your scars became less obvious. Marion
  • I've only seen it on embarrassing bodies ... and tbe results were very good...not perfect but improvement 
  • HI @unknown, I had "dry needling" (a type of acupuncture) around my breast and tummy areas following my DIEP Flap reconstruction (which involved moving tummy tissue to my chest to form a new breast). The scar areas along my tummy and on both breasts (I had a lift the other side) were very tight and were quite obvious, although I didn't have that problem around my nipple recon. I was pretty sceptical about how the dry needling would work, never having had anything like that before, but was surprised how quickly the scars softened over a couple of sessions. A specially trained physiotherapist did mine and I thought it was worthwhile. I also used Bio Oil and Vitamin E creams to help and the scars (2 years on from recon) are much less obvious. Hope this helps :)  Jane xx