Best Facial Scar Treatment

I’ve always said that scars are so much more than what you can see. It’s why I have such a passion for scar work. I’ve been very open about my knee scars, but I’ve really never shared the story of my facial scar before. Why? Because there’s a story behind it, and it’s a painful one for me. 

When I was 11 I was hit by a car. I sustained multiple injuries, including a smashed pelvis and this scar, worthy of 22 stitches. I lost most of the skin on my forehead, so it took the skill of an exceptional army surgeon to piece me back together again. I remember being wheeled backwards through hospital doors and kept away from mirrors for days, so that I couldn’t see the mess that was my face.  I’d also lost the skin off my chin, nose and forehead, in a spectacular gravel graze. 

The emotion for me comes from the circumstances that surround my accident. I remember it like it was yesterday, and it was 35 years ago.  I was going to meet friends that didn’t show up – they didn’t’ bother to tell me.  For this, I felt anger for a long time. It took ages for me to forgive, but eventually I did. 

Then the worse bit. My mum and 10 year old sister found me at the top of the road of where we lived, laying in a pool of blood and crumpled on the floor.  My sister ran back home screaming for help and an ambulance – being the one to tell my Dad and Grandma what had happened. My mum, well she was left to walk over and find out if her daughter was still alive.  This traumatic event still haunts my mum, she had years of nightmares and her blood still runs cold at the sound of an ambulance nearby.   I cannot tell you the guilt and shame I have felt for years over this.  

The accident wasn’t my fault. A lady was driving on the wrong side of the road, looking back at her grandchildren in the rear seats. She didn’t see me, so she claimed.  More anger, a LOT of anger. 

My scars on my forehead run much deeper than what you can see. In fact, most people tell me they can’t even see them, but I know they are there, and I have hated them. I remember asking my GP for a skin graft in my teens, for him to tell me it ‘wasn’t worth it’, as it wouldn’t make much difference.   I have always had a fringe and covered it with makeup, I just didn’t want to have to explain where it came from.  I still feel very emotional thinking about it now, even as I write I keep welling up with tears, mostly over the guilt I feel for what my family went through.  There’s a much bigger story about the overwhelming impact on my life, but that’s maybe for another time! 

And then,  even with the best facial scar treatment options available, I didn’t jump in and treat it when I knew I could – the opposite of my gung-ho approach to my knee scarring. My knee has had every available scar treatment thrown at it, without a care in the world.  So why was my facial scar so different? It was just too painful. I didn’t want to see it, shining like a beacon, whilst I recovered from my treatment. So I stuck to chemical skin peels and low level treatments that helped, but didn’t have the results I really wanted, or knew I could get.   

Recently I have started treating my scarring with RF Microneedling, and I’ll explain more below about why now is the right time for me.  We all find the right time to treat our scars, and the triggers vary wildly.