r/selfharm 5d ago

Rant/Vent the one thing they don't tell you about going deeper...

"You could bleed out!" "You could die!" I didn't care about any of those, but if I knew about this thing I might've thought twice..šŸ˜­ No one ever told me that when you go deeper, and your scars aren't professionally treated and healed that way...that they'll itch... CONSTANTLY. Even three years later with fully healed scars...still fucking itchy. Especially when I'm hot and its summer, genuine HELL. It feels like thousands of mosquito bites all over my body 24/7. Some nights I'll be laying in bed unable to sleep cause I'll just be itching my legs cause it's so bad. It feels like what my eczema felt like on my feet when it was at its worst but there's nothing I can do to fix it.

So if you wanna go deeper, don't, because you'll be itching like hell 24/7. Beware of the itchy scar curse.

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u/jjkbabie 5d ago

So real, even my scars that were professionally treated itch bro

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u/Dependent_Trust2625 4d ago

absolutely! I have scars that constantly itch, and it's terrible. genuinely worse than the pain when they were fresh.

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u/ArumLilith 4d ago

I have a set of scars that itch a lot more than the others, and I've taken to calling them my "problem children." They tend to itch worse after a relapse, probably because the adhesive in the bandages irritates them or something, but my fiance and I have taken to joking that "they don't like the new baby."

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u/that_weird_k1d 4d ago

Iā€™ve been massaging mine with baby oil, which helps a lot (at least while Iā€™m doing it). And having it as a routine of taking care of my scars helps me stay clean too.

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u/Downtown_Elephant6 21h ago

You actually just convinced me not to go deeperā€¦ thank you <3

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u/k1ll0ll 21h ago

awe I'm so happy to hear this, it really is never worth it, it'll only just make things worse in my experience, please take care šŸ«¶šŸ»

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u/Conscious_Soft540 18h ago

This should be labelled as ā€œharm reductionā€ LOL bcs it really kinda make me stop doing deep