{"id":616022,"date":"2009-12-29T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47075-help-w-scarring.html"},"modified":"2009-12-29T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T16:39:30","slug":"help-w-scarring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/616022","title":{"rendered":"Help w\/ Scarring!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Seven months ago, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. But prior to that, I had been showing symptoms for a while that my GP just didn&#8217;t pick up on. I&#8217;m 17 now, but from the age of 13\/14 right up to diagnosis, I&#8217;d get bouts of what I thought was depression.<br \/>\nI know diabetes can really throw the hormones into an imbalanced state and I think that is why the slightest upset from anyone in my family could send me into tears, *negative* thoughts and periods of self-loathing, overeating, and self-harming.<\/p>\n<p>Since diagnosis, and Metformin and the Pill, my moods have improved (except when I overindulge in my beloved Carbs) but I face a constant reminder everyday of my &quot;bad days&quot; &#8211; I still have What I think are, terrible scars on my legs. \ud83d\ude41 <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been told that slowed healing is a negative side affect to having diabetes (one among many!) but if anyone could help, it would make my day &#8211; and my self esteem!<\/p>\n<p>They are flat scars, not raised &#8211; i mean their like, 3\/4 years old &#8211; but because the area they&#8217;re located in is a very light color and the scar itself is quite a tanny\/ med-dark brown, its very noticeable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tried to exfoliate them away, I&#8217;ve tried bio-oil and I have a few creams, but If anyone has gone through this and can give me help or has any remedy to fade them away faster, it would be much appreciated.:) <\/p>\n<p>*** I am sorry If I havent posted this correctly, like into the right category etc. This is my very first post apart from my intro&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>thank you in advance to anyone who replies.<br \/>\n\ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>Riki<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven months ago, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. But prior to that, I had been showing symptoms for a while that my GP just didn&#8217;t pick up on. I&#8217;m 17 now, but from the age of 13\/14 right up to diagnosis, I&#8217;d get bouts of what I thought was depression. I know diabetes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-616022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2AfQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}