Keloid removal with string?

whatever you do dont do it. my keloid on my ear didnt start growing until i was pregnant. there was not much that could be done then so i put a rubber band around it very bad idea. it hurt and i couldnt get it off cause it was so tight. i had to get a knife a cut it off (very dangerous and stupid decision I made)

I'm trying this method at the moment. It is certainly drying it up. I can feel the keloid getting looser and looser everyday, which I'm happy for. It can be rather messy though; as the string is cutting into the skin, pus and blood are appearing, but its coming off! I have been stringing my keloid now for 3 weeks, hopefully another 3 weeks and it will be removed!

Yellow so how is it going now I want to do the same thing how long does it take to fall off

I want to know how long does it take to fall off also. I've had a string on mines for a wk now and its starting to bleed and its swollen.

I just did this, I started on Friday and the keloid was dead by Wednesday. It wasn't falling off and had become infected so I cut it off to avoid blood poisoning or further infection. I'm now on antibiotics but my ear looks great. If you search youtube for "keloid death" there's a video on there showing how to do it. If you're scared to do it, you can start by using a rubber band then taking it off after a day, the keloid will swell up and then reduce to a smaller size. This is one way to slowly make it smaller. I did this three times before finally deciding to tie a string around it and get rid of it. To the first comment, it is true that you should have a high pain threshold to deal with this. The first two days the pain was exruciating, and I had to stack up on painkillers in order to sleep. Definitely worth it though.

If you're having the problem Brandon has had, then your string has become too loose, which is why it has become to swell (the blood supply is no longer cut off). You need to cut off the string and tie it tighter.

I had my ears pierced and I would wear hoop earings. I noticed when I wore the hoop earing on my left ear, it would stick out to the side, so I had my ear repierced but slightly inward so the hoop didnt stick out. In 2006 they pierced the hole right next to the existing one. Months later, I put the hoop in the previous hole which was slightly higher then the new hole. As I was brushing my hair the brush got got to the hoop and I ripped the earring to the next hole. This immediately caused a keloid but I didnt know it was a keloid. For the first few weeks I thought it was fluid and I tried poping it but nothing happened. As time went on it got bigger, I asked the doctor and thats when he told me it was a keloid, growing scare tissue from an injury. The doctor started the steriod injections into my ear on a monthly basis for 2 years but it didnt help at all. The doctor finally stopped because it wasnt working. He told me my only option was surgery but through a cosmetic clinic. He also warned me that if its removed, it could grow back. So all of 2009 I left the keloid alone and I noticed it started growing bigger. For months I've been researching on what I could do to get rid of it. I saw all the ads about gels, creams, patches but I didnt bother with them since the shots didnt work. I came across this website and read about tying a string around the ear. In a desperate attempt, I decided to tie a thin rubber band around my ear as tight as I could. I did it on Tuesday night 2/16/10. At first it got numb and blue. About 15 minutes later it started to hurt. About an hour later I wanted to take it off because it hurt so bad. But I know I did a good job at tying the keloid off, so I just took a Motrin 800 pill and about 45 minutes later the pain went away completely. The next day (Wednesday) the keloid was purple and about 3 pm the pain started coming back so I took another 800 pill and the pain went away. That was the last time I needed to take a pill. By Friday the keloid was totally black and hard. I knew it was dead. Saturday morning I took the rubber band off with intentions of cleaning it and putting the rubber band back on but it looked like it was getting infected. I got nervous so I went to see my doctor and he confirmed that it was not infected and only gave me ointment to put on my ear for when it did fall off. He even said I did a good job at killing the keloid but told me not to pull it off, just to wait for it to fall off in time. By that night the whole base of the keloid was black. It looked kind of gross so I wore a band aid on my ear to cover it. By the following Wednesday, the keloid fell off and I thought I'd have a big hole in my ear but I didnt. It looked like skin was already growing when the keloid fell off. So it took exactly 8 days for the keloid to fall off. Today is Sunday 03/01 and my husband, family, friends and co-workers are so surprised at how normal my ear looks. I would say its 85% healed and my ear lobe is flat, it doesnt feel like the keloid is going to come back. I just had to come back and post that it was a success for me. It was Mike D's post that gave me the confidence to do this. Yes there was pain but like I said the help of the motrin 800's really helped. (sorry for the spelling errors)

Today oN March 26th is my face day for usingvthe string method and so far the keloids on both of my ears are turning purple! Is that normal? It has a slight discomfort to it but i am going to pull through this with alot of FAITH! Please respond and let me know if what i am going through on my first day is normal and i will keep everyone updated daily on my progress! Wish me luck and much success people...... THANK YOU

Also one of my keliods has started turning black already andtoday was the first day i did it! It has a small black spot on it so i guess i am doing this right! I am bearing with the pain with no medication and i am pullin through it with GOD'S grace. And i just wanted to say thank u all for the encouragement especially applecruff and mike d thank you guys so much just wish me luck and success on this journey

Well it is day three of having these strings around my ears but i had to replace the strings with dental floss and one is almost completely black and the other one is half way black and continuning to turn black

I am in the process of doing this now. I have a keloid on both of my ears. i tied string around them on april 5th. I woke up the next morning and they were extremely big with excruciating pain. I wanted to cry, but i took pain killers and toughed it out. I am noticing them getting looser and not so much attached to my ear. it is April 11th and i replaced the string tonight. They are not turning black but i do have some pus and very little bleeding. I did do this by myself and it hurts so very much, but if it works and they fall off it would be so worth it. I dont have insurance and definitely dont have hundreds maybe even thousands of dollars to get them removed just for them to possibly come back. Sleeping is hard to do now. i literally sleep on my chin. the smallest thing rubbing up against my keloids make them hurt. I will continue to update until i get these creatures to fall off.