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[monicakm]

Why yes, yes it is. And I go to a lot of effort making sure I'm fresh as a daisy to smell like an onion. I knew it smelled like onion but I would have never guessed that it actually had onion extract in it.

[AngelPuppy1]

Oh, wow!  That's crazy.  I would never have guessed that onion extract is an ingredient!  Do you suppose that this is also in other similar products?  I have a tube of one of these in my drawer and I will have to check it out!  Yes - who wants to apply a product to their skin that smells like an onion??? 

[Judaline]

@monicakm  Hilarious. You put it so well, hahahaha.

[monicakm]

I don't know @AngelPuppy1 .  I just know I'm not putting it on my chest anymore. I Googled retinol, glycolic acid, niacinamide, vitamin C, and probably some other of my complexion products and they can all be beneficial for surgical scars. So I'm going to keep that up along with hydration and lock it all in with Aquaphor. I tried the silicone strips in the beginning but nothing would stay put.

[Group 5 minus 1]

When I was a child Mom would put onion skin if I fell and was bleeding. It stopped the bleeding right away.

[Stray]

@monicakm - have you tried silicon strips? I had plastic surgery & the doctor insisted I use them. I don’t know if the OTC types are the same as he wrote me an RX & I got them at a surgical supply store. But, I have no visible scars.

[cheriere]

@monicakm 

Years ago, I'd hadn't been teaching long when a dermatologist introduced me to this product.  

At the age if 25, I developed a horrendous case of Chicken Pox! I'd went to a Dr after school because I thought I might have pneumonia.  At the time, I'd never been so sick.

The X-ray tech took me back for an X-ray and I noticed a quarter size huge blister had almost instantly appeared in my chest.  The tech could see it from across the room.  He told me to sit tight while he got the Dr.

Before I left his office, these huge blisters had began to pop up in my arms, back, neck, face, stomach... EVERYWHERE lol!

I was prescribed several meds and was asked by the dr to have someone bring me in at 8am the next morning.  By then, with zero sleep, I was COVERED!!!  Face, scalp, back, belly. arms, legs, feet, torso, chest,...I MEAN EVERYWHERE!!!

I was the only patient in the office purposely because I couldn't be near pregnant patients.  My dr was from India.  He had a nurse in with me to completely disrobe and put on a gown.  He came in and examined me, taking pics of most of my body.  He even measured them including a small, funny ruler for pics.  He even took a small ink pen point and tried to find any spaces it would fit between without touching another.  Then, he took pics of these lol.

My chest X-ray even showed they were inside my lungs!  I didn't even know this was possible!  He had hospital admission papers filled out and ready for me to go check in.  He said he'd never seen chicken pox this size since he'd been in rhe USA the past 40 years!  

In India, he said this is exactly what

smallpox looks like, but since I hadn't been traveling he knew they were definitely chicken pox.

I didn't want to stay in the hospital though lol.  However, since they were inside, I had to go.  I was out of school for 10 days!  I still had many places, but he said was no longer contagious and the inner lungs etc had cleared so well enough to return too.

The MEDWRMA fits in here.  Whenever the large circles fell off, I was left with big, round white scars everywhere!

This was the end of September and my ex and I had a Valentine's Day Vacation long booked & scheduled. 

I used to heal very quickly!  However, many tubes of MEDERMA, PALMERS COCO BUTTER, & YES, Several trips to the Tanning Bed (it was the 90s) and I didn't have a single scar left by just after Christmas!!!  

[NYCLatinaMe]

@monicakm  Did your doctor recommend massaging the scar with vitamin e?  That is what my surgeons have always recommended, keeps it soft.

I have also used mederma and never noticed an onion scent.  Just because it has an onion extract doesn't mean you will smell like onions.

[JoyFilled Warrior]

Hi @monicakm  

Onion??  Gosh, I thought the ole snail slime thing was unique.

      During & after the process of a new long distance move, I started hemorrhaging.  2 pints low on blood already, & dropping fast, it was urgent for this series of totally unfamiliar docs, in this totally unfamiliar new area, to do something.

      I would have died, surely, had my "Chat only friend" not intuitively known to check on me, & cause holy hell with that series of unfamiliar Docs who were having me only run around "for tests," while cont'd hemorrhaging.

(Thank u Cookie!  I love you!  I appreciate u! *hug*)

I was admitted to a totally unfamiliar Hospital. When blood transfusions finally started to overcome the cont'd hemorrhaging, I was wheeled to Emer Surgery, performed by an unknown Surgeon, who was suddenly pulled out of church, whomever he was). 

All of us were pretty sure it was Cancer, so, this unfamiliar Surgeon's incision was a longgg longgg vertical, belly button on, on, on down incision, (vs the more familiar short, obscure bikini cut). 

   For those times, I tried the whole panoply of just about everything to reduce/remove that longgg, indented scar.  NO luck whatsoever, (altho the surrounding skin looked lovely)!

    Finally, I gave up since my bikini days were over anyway.

    I've had to befriend that darn thing;  I call it my "zipper."  It's yet another one of my body's "Life Battle Scars."

    (You Mom's know what I'm talking about here!)

    Maybe these days, there's more effective ways to diminish/remove scars?

    OB/GYNs might have a clue for scar reducing/elimination product, since they commonly have C-Section, (&/or Stretch Mark) patients, in the year 2024!.  They SHOULD know anyway.  The *good* OB/GYNs would know!

Good luck, sis! 

[monicakm]

@NYCLatinaMe 

I smelled like onions or BO months before I ever found out it actually had onion extract in it.