Can I get some advice on. Fading old cat scratches.

I had a family member who played really roughly with my kitten during the time I was away at school so when I came home from school he did an absolute number on my arms. I managed to mostly break him of the hand/arms are playtoys habit but suffered some more during the process. He's now two years old and still nips sometimes but is mostly well behaved. My arms not so much.

I have extremely pale skin and ever single cat scratch scar has some sort of pigmentation thing going on that makes them brown/darker then my skin. I've had people ask me if I self harmed because the browness of them makes them so obvious. It's really really fusterating to me. Most of these are over a year old and I'm so irritated by the fact they don't seem to want to fade.

Can I get some recs for products to apply to these damn things to help fade / reduce the pigment problem. I'm trying a mixture of vitamin e, emu oil, dabble of tea tree, and toddler bit of nonprescription. Hydrocortisone. I'm srsly tired of having the tell people I had a psycho cat that tore up my arms.

If it doesn't get better soon I'll have to see about getting something prescription for it.

Try cocoa butter. It's supposed to help with scars and blemishes. I have tons of scars, and I'm proud of each one of them, but it sounds like either you scar from a scratch or you got torn up! I got a nasty gash from a barn cat earlier this year and cocoa butter helped after it started to scab over. Don't put it on an open wound though.

Mederma is over the counter and works pretty well for scars, even old ones.  It may take a few months but it will reduce the scaring and lighten the dark pigment in the scar.  It's what we recommend to our surgery patients who are worried about scarring.  It's more expensive than the cocoa butter but can work better.  There are also prescription creams that you can get that will work even better if the scars really bother you but they can be expensive.  I hope you find something that helps.  I have a really bad scar on my right wrist from a car accident and it bothered me for a really long time so I ended up getting a Rx cream and it helped a lot.

Vitamin E cream. Or anything with vitamin E in it, such as BioOil.
 

7irishkitties said:

Mederma is over the counter and works pretty well for scars, even old ones.

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That's what I recommend, too. Being male, I couldn't care less about accumulating scars, but my mom used Mederma to heal the scars from her car accident a few years ago. She also tried it on a scar she had from when she cut one of her fingers while cooking, the scar being 15-years-old at that point, and the Mederma did a number on that as well.