Oh, how ugly stretch marks are, and oh, how we hate them! Stretch mark removal becomes one of the most important things in the world when you actually have these ugly bluish-purple lines on your body, whether you have them around your stomach, and on your hips and thighs, which is where most women get them, or on your chest shoulders and back which is where men tend to suffer. I've even heard people getting stretch marks on the face. Oh yuck!You can get stretch marks at any age, whatever body type you have and whether you are fat or thin. Some groups of the population are more susceptible than others, such as adolescent girls and boys (mainly boys), females of any age during pregnancy and bodybuilders who make their muscles grow much larger than normal through exercising with heavy weights. Use of muscle-bulking steroids for competition are also likely to make this problem worse.
The path you take to removing stretch marks will depend on several factors; the severity of your problem, the state of your health and how much money you want to spend getting rid of your stretch marks. If money is no object, plastic surgery involving cutting and tightening of the skin around the affected area can produce good results and can be combined with a tummy tuck. There is obviously some pain and recovery time associated with this option and the less radical option would be to have laser surgery which produces less discomfort and can also show good results.
Stretch marks do not hurt when they appear, although they can make your skin feel a little tight and itchy - a common problem during pregnancy, as your entire body goes haywire getting ready for your baby. Stretch marks that appear with no warning should always be checked out by your doctor as there is a slight chance that you may have developed a disease called Cushing's syndrome, where your endocrine system produces too much of a natural steroid, damaging the lower levels of skin and causing the tell-tale lines of stretch marks to appear.
Cushing's disease, or Cushing's syndrome as it is sometimes called occurs when some small glance near the kidneys brackets the adrenal glands produce too much of a hormone called cortisol. Overproduction of cortisol can result in serious medical problems including diabetes, dysmenorrhoea in women, hypertension and the appearance of stretch marks due to tears occurring in the deeper levels of the skin. Stretch mark removal must not be attempted if there is any suspicion of Cushing's disease being present, however Cushing's syndrome is not common.
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