Will use Embrace Scar therapy after Vertical Breast Lift 9/17

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macb04
macb04 Member Posts: 1,433
edited September 2015 in Breast Reconstruction

Anyone else use Embrace's scar therapy? I will start it 2 weeks or so after my lift for symmetry. I got my implant exchange on August 6th 2015, of my L breast. I am sad that I have to get my Right breast cut with surgery to try and get some symmetry. I will try the Embrace therapy to try and minimize the scar. Unfortunately it is not cheap, about 300 dollars for 8 weeks of therapy. I plan to get medical tattooing of the scar to try my best to camouflaged the scars. My husband thinks this lift is a bad idea, but I am so desperate for symmetry. Now with the implant on my left breast and a prosthetic nipple, my left breast looks pretty good, pretty real. So it looks like two real breasts, albeit one kind of scarred. But, they look like breasts for two different women because of the lopsidedness. Can't stand the lopsidedness, so a do the deed, get a breast lift on my poor untouched right breast.

Getting nervous, just 3 more days till surgery.

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  • inks
    inks Member Posts: 746
    edited September 2015

    This Embrace stuff is very interesting. The only difference I can see versus the regular silicone scar strips is that Embrace is pre stretched and thus would aid in helping to keep the scar edges together. But in their table where they compare scar treatments they did not compare the Embrace with any other silicone scar strips, they only compared Embrace to liquid topicals. So perhaps their results would not be so astonishing if they compared themselves with any old silicone strip. That's what I used, I got the strips for c-sections scars because they were longer and they worked great at a way more managable cost.

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  • inks
    inks Member Posts: 746
    edited September 2015

    And the WebMD article they refer people to only covers

    Topical treatments, Surgery. Steroid injections. Radiotherapy. Dermabrasion. Laser resurfacing .Filler injections.

    some of those are very invasine and ineffective at the same time. But the article does not mention silicone scar strips.

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