I was 15 when I got Chickenpox. And it was right at the time I had to get a passport photo taken for an upcoming trip. So for 5 years I had chickenpox in my passport photo 🤪
My sister got keloids in acne scars on her upper arms. We had never heard of them either as we are quite British. She is Irish pale. They used to inject steroids but she is still self conscious in her 40's.
that is fucking TERRIFYING holy shit i screamed into my pillow and im usually not freaked out by stuff like that and i have some keloid scars too but theyre definitely not as bad, holy shit im amazed that you got through this
Thank you for the video! Had a very similar experience with the NHS for keloids from piercings! Unfortunately I had to go private (luckily I could afford it) as my local GP said they couldn't do referrals despite it clearly affecting me mentally. It's so frustrating that despite the evidence saying early intervention is key (and possibly cheaper!), the NHS system needs you to wait so long. I am so glad you got the surgery in the end and it's been behaving since! P.S. I still Love and support the NHS!!!
I’m not a needlephobe, had medical things all through my life so it wasn’t really an option. But surgery is terrifying, having one where I went under was horrible, can’t imagine having one locally!
You look so beautiful with your hair up, not that you aren’t beautiful when it’s down...... you know what I mean! 😬don’t pierce anything ever again, it’s too big a risk 😃
I dont know if its just a British thing; but its fairly common in my experience to say "touch wood" and then touch your head if there's no immediate wood nearby!
@@Lucilou101 I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I used to think my family did it because we were brown and I was therefore wood coloured, but then I saw Jamie do it too haha x
@@shaaba thankfully not! I think it's actually a pretty old tradition based on self deprecating humour and comparing your head to wood/calling yourself dumb 😂
I would have loved that surgeon! Possibly the worst type for someone who is already anxious about it all though. Poor Shaaba! I had a small surgery on my wrist when I was 18. I had told them I wanted to be awake for it, but they insisted on putting me under. I would have loved to see the cyst they removed or even the entire procedure and I was so disappointed that they didn't let me. As an adult, I get not wanting an awake teenager in an operating room. Imagine the chaos of a teenager realising they're not as badass as they imagined themselves to be mid-surgery 😂
That doctor sounds a lot lie my dentist. I have a phobia of needles and as my response I focus very intensely on something else I can see when I’m gettting a shot. My first visit to this dentist in particular was to treat three cavities. He was very eccentric, and when it came to getting the Novocain shots, the only thing to focus on were his geared up eyes (yknow those insane contraptions they have on their faces) and he was shocked that I stared him in the eyes because no ones ever done that before. I explained that it was a fear response. The rest of the procedure he told me stories about school and his time as a dentist in the military. He had loads of stories about the shots in particular. Like how in medical school they would practice on each other and most of them would get so scared of administering the shots that they would totally miss. And these stories made my fear so lessened and my confidence in getting injections has definitely not been solidified yet, but it exists now. So next time anyone has an eccentric doctor and you’re afraid. Just tell them. Because maybe they can help you learn more about what you fear and it will make it less scary.
I'm sorry you had to go through all that, but I'm sure you hear this from Jammie all the time, you're still beautiful! (Not in that creepy subscriber way, just a jealous 'I wish I had your hair' type beautiful lol!) 😁✌😄
this makes so much sense to me. Im Native American and my moms white and shes never gotten keloids and she has a lot of piercings. I got a third piercing and it did similar to what happened to you.
I know what you mean about your body turning jewelry green under where it has set. I do the same. I can only do gold and even that turns brassy sometimes. At least it's not green.
I had a ball of fat , 1 cm big, not biggy, close to butthole, never hurt just was there for years. I've asked my doctor if I should do anything. She reply , not to do anything, could be there of mjy life. So I did nothing but day started to hurt, like Saturday , Sunday kept growing the pain I couldn't sit. Monday I was crying, I was took to many doctors, finally a surgeon could take it off, and the needle of of lidocaine made me cry. I am not scared of needles, but I was crying with that needle
I want Roly to react to this video so bad! lol. I love your storytime videos!! Sorry you had to go through that tho... you might be able to get piercings in the future if they are done with a needle. but totally valid to not want to risk it!! Thanks so much for keeping up putting out awesome content... You're one of my favorite channels and I am really grateful for such positive distractions from quarantine panic lol.
Aww thank you! We'll see, I'd love more piercings just not sure if it's wise haha. Thanks so much for watching and I'm glad we can do something to hopefully make you smile (: sending love and hugs! x
omg your poor ear, it looked soo painful after the removal and I can't believe you still did your presentation while in pain. My secondary school friend had chicken pox keloids all on her chest, like bubbles bless her and she used to be soo self conscious about them.
I used to work in a hospital un the U.S. Nothing scares me in re medical procedures. I had to have a needle biopsy on a thyroid mass -refused anesthesia & used yoga to controll every breath, breathing in or out only on comand for 47 munutes. It might help your fear if you learned how to give other people shots ( It worked for me.) but you should definitely put the needle phobia in your medical record, some people need mild sedation befoe hand.
Oh my gosh I've seen keloids before but I didn't appreciate how large it was until you showed the photo. Can't imagine having to deal with that and not knowing when you would get treatment.
I had chicken pox when I was little. But when I was 16 I got them again, boy was it awful. I caught them from my tutor's kids. She told me before hand about her kids, but since I'd had them I kept my appointment, big mistake. Glad you made it through your surgery. Take care darlin!
I have 3 scars in all. First and main one is the very large one on my chest where I had an operation to heal the hole in my heart when I was little (4...5 years old, I guess?). Second happened when I was a little older, on my pinkie finger when I got it trapped in a door (by accident). Third happened a while after when I was about 10 ish; my sister and I were playing, she swung me round and I ended up opening my lip on the curb.
shaaba, i had had surgery whilst i was awake, absolute weirdest experience on the planet! I'll add half way through the surgery, they lifted up my chopped open hand to show me where there was a complication they werent expecting and asked fofr my consent to correct this problem, and to be honest it was the weirdest thing ever, because my brain was saying ''this should hurt thats my hand chopped open'' but because i couldnt feel pain it really confused me, the end XD
Redheads with pale, freckled skin are prone to keloid scars and I have quite a few, including a massive one on my left thigh right to my knee. I've had that since I was 3 and forget it's there. What does bother me more is the small ones all over from cuts or spots that developed into a keloid. It's so frustrating.
The most dramatic scar story I have was from when I was a child. I was playing with some other kids with a soccer ball I really loved. I kicked the ball across the road and another child rode his bike really fast at it. I played along and like hero dived across the road to rescue my ball and somehow my foot ended up in his front wheel. The wheel kept going until my shin contacted the front fork and my leg stopped moving but the wheel had enough force that the spoke sliced through my jeans and cut my leg open. Had to get like 6 stitches or something. Afterwards I was very proud of my battle wound haha.
I also have a keloid. It on my arm from a grease burn I has when i was in elementary school. I did the steroid treatment when i was in middle school. Its flatter than it used to be but still pretty prominate. I dont notice it very much until people point it out to me
Ughh i have a keloid on my helix piercing at the moment. Saline solution and salt water 🤦🏻♀️ Ps:Mines from chicken pocks as well, also i know it shouldn't work with salt water but it did for me
I have massive keloids on my shoulders from having pre C spots removed. They itch horrible and are painful at times. Have tried injections and zero luck. They were excruciating so I can sympathize with you. Needless to say I still have them and have just decided to accept them.
4:20 I understand most bad reactions to (often cheap) jewellery are due to the quality of metal used, and the types of metal of the imperfections in it. Gold doesn't react with much at all, silver with little, platinum also, but if its cheaper versions you get more nickel or other metals in the mix which some people are more sensitive to and those metals can react with things in your skin/moisture. Even some stainless steel has a little nickel. Copper is another one that some can react to (which is used to give rose gold its colour). You can google other metals. If the gold/silver is plated rather than solid, the underlying metal underneath can also cause problems because the plating is such a thin layer.
It's because of the acidity of your skin. Some people (me included) have naturally more acidic skin, which then causes as oxidative reaction with zinc, copper, etc. Gold and silver doesn't tend to react because they're more stable. elements. Same thing as when copper roofs turn green over time.
That doctor is like Hawkeye from M*A*S*H. I’m glad you did alright Shabba! My scar story, I have a long one on my back from when I was young girl and had a dorsal rayzotomy to correct spastic diplegia (didn’t work). It still is there even after 18 years.
I don't remember my chicken pox thankfully, also I have a nose and tongue pierced I got them done the same day. The nose one didn't hurt really it mostly just made my eyes water, I think you would look awesome with a nose piercing 😘😘
A former coworker of mine has mad keloids from her industrial/scaffold piercings. She's super self conscious about them because I guess people stare at her ears when they talk to her sometimes.
I got chicken pox when I was 6 or 7. I had them on my eye balls, in my throat, stomach lining, and in my urethra. It was a nightmare. I managed not to really end up with scaring.
i got 4 huge keloids from one surgery. but i've had a bunch of piercings + a few tatts + no keloids. so weird. also re: the reactions to cheap jewelry - you may be allergic to nickel? same thing happens to me whenever i wear anything that has nickel in it, which most cheaper jewelry does!
I actually had a nose job under a local, and made them get a mirror so I could watch. I don't know if they would do that for just anyone, butI worked at the hospital and knew the doc.
I got my face ripped open by a dog once, I didn’t feel it tho. It was all bloody and weird looking, it was cool. I’m all healed now but the scar tissue underneath the scar is bumpy 😅
It's not that the surgeon doesn't know it's a big deal to you or that you are scared. They are literally taught to ignore that. His behaviour was textbook. I've had a lot of surgery and now I'm a major mess of medical PTSD
Really gross scar story; I got a daith piercing. It had keloids for 2 years. The first year I had it, the bumps progressively got worse until one day while I was in class, it burst. I went home early, had it removed. Real smart guy here, because once the spot healed over I got it redone. It scarred up again, and for another year had bumps, and I'd just go about my day with bad pains in my ear. The whole time I was treating it with a saline solution, and it just didn't help. My piercer took a look at it and said " you should put this specific eye medication on it and see if that helps." And I thought, screw it, I might as well. The medication for who knows what reason actually helped, and I've found that I always get piercing bumps unless I use this specific medication.
i managed to get a keloid on my nose when i got it pierced, the issue is that that i didnt know what it was so i tried to pull it out with my nails and obviously it grew bigger... wasted £15 because i had to take it out :(
Funny story. Kinda uncanny. But I often wondered about your chest scar as it would invariably remind me of my ex, who also looks like you, and has a June birthday, too. Her scar was also from Chickenpox. On a separate note, it’s interesting how our unique human experience connects us. How something so microscopic such as a virus, be it Chickenpox or COVID-19, can bring about communal stories of epic proportions. Reminded me Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel.’ I guess, I’m going off on a tangent.
Ooh coincidence! A few people have commented on my chest scar, I've had people tease me thinking it was a hickey too! Very true, and very philosophical x
Didn't know Keloid Scaring happened more regularly to POC, honestly my pale ass body doesn't seem to give a fuck about that little fact. Got a piercing horror story myself, and the first one I ever did with a needle actually, was the one that became the horror story, with surgery included on it and the whole shabang. It never got to looking quite as bad as yours, because I just took my health insurance and went private the moment that my hair strands touching my year hurt so much it was unbearable. Tbh I ended up paying about 20 euros for the whole thing, meet a great doctor that did everything else I needed for free. Wouldn't recommend the experience, but it turned out way better than it could've had, I got way less stitches than Shaaba. I honestly felt like making a video about this now, but it would probably suck. The result of that little adventure was no more ear piercings for me and I just decided to straight up tattoo my ears.
I’ve never had chicken pox. I’m in my 30s now and I’m on an immunosuppressant. Adults on the same medication and got chicken pox, 50% of them died. I’m really scared of chicken pox. I avoid kids like the plague.
I got my nose peirced around 2 years ago with a stud - it fell out multiple times and so I became paranoid and 'pushed' it in too far and so the stud is stuck in my nose (skin grew over the stud). It doesn't hurt - but I do have metal in my nose 😅 I can get it surgically removed but it's not causing me harm so it's just chilling :')
That's so interesting! I'm glad it's not causing you any harm haha, but I am curious as to whether that would get picked up by a security metal detector! x
I had a keloid on my ear from an industrial piercing on my ear and it was terrible. My mom called it my elf ear. I did the shots for a while, got frustrated bc I felt like it wasn’t doing anything and got it cut off. The healing process is terrible and it came back but it was small so I left it alone...needless to say, I’ve moved on to tattoos now 💀😂
My Mam had awful chicken pox in her 30s, it was even in her mouth and throat so she couldn't eat anything. I think she went down to 7st (scary low for a 5'6 woman). Mine was bad enough, at around 6, I was completely covered and couldn't sleep. I can't imagine not being able to eat either 😳
Is it weird I avoided this video because I thought it was a story of a mushroom growing out of your ear canal, but the keloid scar doesn't bother me, even though it's probably more eek.
I don’t know if it’s because my father is an acupuncturist so I was desensitized to needles at age 2 and have been consistently getting acupuncturist since (I’m currently 28) or the fact that I’m hopelessly addicted to tattoos I’m curious as to why you’re afraid of needles Shaaba? Did something happen to bring about the fear?
That is a lot of needle exposure! My mum has a really bad needle phobia so I think it'll likely be from that, it's super irrational and I understand that it doesn't hurt much, my body just goes a bit silly and takes over my mind! I do LOVE tattoos though and got my first one recently. I was super scared because of my needle phobia but luckily I didn't make too much of a fuss and I love my tattoo (first of many hopefully!) x
Shaaba. Oh I don’t think it’s irrational at all! Everyone’s different so I was just curious if there was a particular reason for your phobia. 🤗 Oh yes I love tattoos as well! I am so hopelessly addicted. Currently waiting to get my seventh tattoo done once it is safe enough for the tattoo shops to open back up.
College is like what sets you up to go to university, so you can get a lower level qualification that you may need in order to get onto the university course you want. You cant get a degree from college, you can get btec qualifications and diploma's but not a proper degree, you have to go to university if you want that.
The NHS is universal healthcare in the United Kingdom. It is the most effective system to provide healthcare in Europe ~20% cheaper per capita than Germany, ~60% cheaper than the US, again per capita.** It worked similar to a single payer system for a long time, but the conservative government in the UK has been underfunding it intentionaly, for a few years: 1.To make the case for privatisation, if it underperforms as intended.* 2. To have leway for tax reductions etc.. 3. They reallowed private insurance some years back, and an undefunded public sceme allows the private sector to outbid them in terms of salary. -> Leading to one of the biggest staff shortages in Europe. Despite this, the NHS is still widely regarded as the best healthcare provider in Europe (as of 2018). Recently rumors about opening the UK markets to US healthcare interests, as part of a trade deal to reduce the impact of Brexit, have been heard surrounding British politics. *This could be the reason why Shaaba clarifyed in the beginning that she likes the NHS and that her negative experience is, most likely, a consequence of underfunding. This hopefully covered the gist, have a beautiful day :) **www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/cost-of-healthcare-countries-ranked-2019-3 (Disclaimer: English is only a second language to me)
Nose piercings hurt like hell but honestly i kinda miss mine. I'm gonna get my lip pierced again because my neighbor is actually my piercer so gonna hope for a discount lol. But he's great, he gave us some self made wild boar sausage today.
I understand that it is cultural, but I can't help but cringe about every step of your piercing story: Pierced with a gun Probably not good quality jewelry On/near a formed keloid You turned the jewelry And slept on it You just really had the cards stacked against you on this ☹ I'm sorry you had such a terrible experience!
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Dang the whole chicken pox’s incident sounds actually really scary- i could never imagine what you had to go through
Interesting scar story:
My childhood
DEEP. (sending love :P ) x
I'm glad you made it thru.
@@shaaba ily Shaaba 😂
I was 15 when I got Chickenpox. And it was right at the time I had to get a passport photo taken for an upcoming trip. So for 5 years I had chickenpox in my passport photo 🤪
My sister got keloids in acne scars on her upper arms. We had never heard of them either as we are quite British. She is Irish pale. They used to inject steroids but she is still self conscious in her 40's.
This is off topic but I love your shirt 😂
Thanks haha, it's from New Look if you wanted to find it! x
@@shaaba Thanks! I'll look into it ❤
It's a lovely colour
that is fucking TERRIFYING holy shit i screamed into my pillow and im usually not freaked out by stuff like that and i have some keloid scars too but theyre definitely not as bad, holy shit im amazed that you got through this
Thank you for the video!
Had a very similar experience with the NHS for keloids from piercings! Unfortunately I had to go private (luckily I could afford it) as my local GP said they couldn't do referrals despite it clearly affecting me mentally. It's so frustrating that despite the evidence saying early intervention is key (and possibly cheaper!), the NHS system needs you to wait so long.
I am so glad you got the surgery in the end and it's been behaving since!
P.S. I still Love and support the NHS!!!
Yay NHS, but i relate to your frustration. Glad you were able to afford an alternative! x
I’m not a needlephobe, had medical things all through my life so it wasn’t really an option. But surgery is terrifying, having one where I went under was horrible, can’t imagine having one locally!
I feel for you. I had exactly the same experience. During my A levels.
You look so beautiful with your hair up, not that you aren’t beautiful when it’s down...... you know what I mean! 😬don’t pierce anything ever again, it’s too big a risk 😃
Aww thank you! x
Shaaba: "touch wood"
Also Shaaba: *touches forehead*
I dont know if its just a British thing; but its fairly common in my experience to say "touch wood" and then touch your head if there's no immediate wood nearby!
@@Lucilou101 I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I used to think my family did it because we were brown and I was therefore wood coloured, but then I saw Jamie do it too haha x
@@shaaba thankfully not! I think it's actually a pretty old tradition based on self deprecating humour and comparing your head to wood/calling yourself dumb 😂
@@shaaba In America we knock wood instead of touch it, and in the absence of actual wood some of us rap our heads with our knuckles.
@@asympti2185 you won't get this joke but oak furniture land advert 😂😂 look it up :P
Crazy keloids, eh?
Does Roly know this story?
You guys should do a video on this together!
Omg I thought of Roly!
I would have loved that surgeon! Possibly the worst type for someone who is already anxious about it all though. Poor Shaaba! I had a small surgery on my wrist when I was 18. I had told them I wanted to be awake for it, but they insisted on putting me under. I would have loved to see the cyst they removed or even the entire procedure and I was so disappointed that they didn't let me. As an adult, I get not wanting an awake teenager in an operating room. Imagine the chaos of a teenager realising they're not as badass as they imagined themselves to be mid-surgery 😂
That doctor sounds a lot lie my dentist. I have a phobia of needles and as my response I focus very intensely on something else I can see when I’m gettting a shot. My first visit to this dentist in particular was to treat three cavities. He was very eccentric, and when it came to getting the Novocain shots, the only thing to focus on were his geared up eyes (yknow those insane contraptions they have on their faces) and he was shocked that I stared him in the eyes because no ones ever done that before. I explained that it was a fear response. The rest of the procedure he told me stories about school and his time as a dentist in the military. He had loads of stories about the shots in particular. Like how in medical school they would practice on each other and most of them would get so scared of administering the shots that they would totally miss. And these stories made my fear so lessened and my confidence in getting injections has definitely not been solidified yet, but it exists now. So next time anyone has an eccentric doctor and you’re afraid. Just tell them. Because maybe they can help you learn more about what you fear and it will make it less scary.
I'm sorry you had to go through all that, but I'm sure you hear this from Jammie all the time, you're still beautiful! (Not in that creepy subscriber way, just a jealous 'I wish I had your hair' type beautiful lol!) 😁✌😄
I’m watching this before my keloid surgery tomorrow morning. I’m so excitedddddd
this makes so much sense to me. Im Native American and my moms white and shes never gotten keloids and she has a lot of piercings. I got a third piercing and it did similar to what happened to you.
Good gosh I absolutely adore her!!!!
Your intro just makes me cry with joy ☺️
I know what you mean about your body turning jewelry green under where it has set. I do the same. I can only do gold and even that turns brassy sometimes. At least it's not green.
I had a ball of fat , 1 cm big, not biggy, close to butthole, never hurt just was there for years. I've asked my doctor if I should do anything. She reply , not to do anything, could be there of mjy life. So I did nothing but day started to hurt, like Saturday , Sunday kept growing the pain I couldn't sit. Monday I was crying, I was took to many doctors, finally a surgeon could take it off, and the needle of of lidocaine made me cry. I am not scared of needles, but I was crying with that needle
You look really good with the hair like that! Beautiful! :)
I want Roly to react to this video so bad! lol. I love your storytime videos!! Sorry you had to go through that tho... you might be able to get piercings in the future if they are done with a needle. but totally valid to not want to risk it!! Thanks so much for keeping up putting out awesome content... You're one of my favorite channels and I am really grateful for such positive distractions from quarantine panic lol.
Aww thank you! We'll see, I'd love more piercings just not sure if it's wise haha.
Thanks so much for watching and I'm glad we can do something to hopefully make you smile (: sending love and hugs! x
haven't had that done, but I had beauty marks removed in a local surgery so I really related to your surgery experience xD
I've had 12 piercings total and currently have 8 and have never had problems but damn that story has put me off getting more 😂
omg your poor ear, it looked soo painful after the removal and I can't believe you still did your presentation while in pain. My secondary school friend had chicken pox keloids all on her chest, like bubbles bless her and she used to be soo self conscious about them.
I used to work in a hospital un the U.S. Nothing scares me in re medical procedures. I had to have a needle biopsy on a thyroid mass -refused anesthesia & used yoga to controll every breath, breathing in or out only on comand for 47 munutes. It might help your fear if you learned how to give other people shots ( It worked for me.) but you should definitely put the needle phobia in your medical record, some people need mild sedation befoe hand.
Oh my gosh I've seen keloids before but I didn't appreciate how large it was until you showed the photo. Can't imagine having to deal with that and not knowing when you would get treatment.
I had chicken pox when I was little. But when I was 16 I got them again, boy was it awful. I caught them from my tutor's kids. She told me before hand about her kids, but since I'd had them I kept my appointment, big mistake. Glad you made it through your surgery. Take care darlin!
Damn, sorry you got it twice! x
I have 3 scars in all. First and main one is the very large one on my chest where I had an operation to heal the hole in my heart when I was little (4...5 years old, I guess?). Second happened when I was a little older, on my pinkie finger when I got it trapped in a door (by accident). Third happened a while after when I was about 10 ish; my sister and I were playing, she swung me round and I ended up opening my lip on the curb.
shaaba, i had had surgery whilst i was awake, absolute weirdest experience on the planet! I'll add half way through the surgery, they lifted up my chopped open hand to show me where there was a complication they werent expecting and asked fofr my consent to correct this problem, and to be honest it was the weirdest thing ever, because my brain was saying ''this should hurt thats my hand chopped open'' but because i couldnt feel pain it really confused me, the end XD
9:13 I had Googled keloid, the moment you mentioned keloid
Ahhhhh those pictures were so gross I loved it!!
Redheads with pale, freckled skin are prone to keloid scars and I have quite a few, including a massive one on my left thigh right to my knee. I've had that since I was 3 and forget it's there. What does bother me more is the small ones all over from cuts or spots that developed into a keloid. It's so frustrating.
**hears Sting** **WAR FLASHBACKS**
The most dramatic scar story I have was from when I was a child. I was playing with some other kids with a soccer ball I really loved. I kicked the ball across the road and another child rode his bike really fast at it. I played along and like hero dived across the road to rescue my ball and somehow my foot ended up in his front wheel. The wheel kept going until my shin contacted the front fork and my leg stopped moving but the wheel had enough force that the spoke sliced through my jeans and cut my leg open. Had to get like 6 stitches or something. Afterwards I was very proud of my battle wound haha.
Wow that story was an ADVENTURE! Sounds painful but I too am proud of your battle wound :P x
I also have a keloid. It on my arm from a grease burn I has when i was in elementary school. I did the steroid treatment when i was in middle school. Its flatter than it used to be but still pretty prominate. I dont notice it very much until people point it out to me
Ughh i have a keloid on my helix piercing at the moment. Saline solution and salt water 🤦🏻♀️
Ps:Mines from chicken pocks as well, also i know it shouldn't work with salt water but it did for me
maybe it wasnt a keloid idk but the good thing is that it's finally gone 😃
i have a bad phobia of needles to and it sucks!
I have massive keloids on my shoulders from having pre C spots removed. They itch horrible and are painful at times. Have tried injections and zero luck. They were excruciating so I can sympathize with you. Needless to say I still have them and have just decided to accept them.
My mum got a little elf ear after removing a piercing she got in Cypress. It deflated on it’s own and now she has saggy skin on the top of her ear
4:20 I understand most bad reactions to (often cheap) jewellery are due to the quality of metal used, and the types of metal of the imperfections in it. Gold doesn't react with much at all, silver with little, platinum also, but if its cheaper versions you get more nickel or other metals in the mix which some people are more sensitive to and those metals can react with things in your skin/moisture. Even some stainless steel has a little nickel. Copper is another one that some can react to (which is used to give rose gold its colour). You can google other metals. If the gold/silver is plated rather than solid, the underlying metal underneath can also cause problems because the plating is such a thin layer.
It's because of the acidity of your skin. Some people (me included) have naturally more acidic skin, which then causes as oxidative reaction with zinc, copper, etc. Gold and silver doesn't tend to react because they're more stable. elements. Same thing as when copper roofs turn green over time.
I’ve watched this twice tonight and I cannot stop laughing oh my god 😂😭
That doctor is like Hawkeye from M*A*S*H. I’m glad you did alright Shabba! My scar story, I have a long one on my back from when I was young girl and had a dorsal rayzotomy to correct spastic diplegia (didn’t work). It still is there even after 18 years.
I don't remember my chicken pox thankfully, also I have a nose and tongue pierced I got them done the same day. The nose one didn't hurt really it mostly just made my eyes water, I think you would look awesome with a nose piercing 😘😘
A former coworker of mine has mad keloids from her industrial/scaffold piercings. She's super self conscious about them because I guess people stare at her ears when they talk to her sometimes.
I got chicken pox when I was 6 or 7. I had them on my eye balls, in my throat, stomach lining, and in my urethra. It was a nightmare. I managed not to really end up with scaring.
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Holy hell. That’s sounds awful. I’m sorry you had to go through that. Thank Jesus for vaccines
That really does sound horrible, sorry you went through that! x
I just have bad reactions to anything skin. Poison oak did the same thing and I had to get painful shots every other day.
i got 4 huge keloids from one surgery. but i've had a bunch of piercings + a few tatts + no keloids. so weird.
also re: the reactions to cheap jewelry - you may be allergic to nickel? same thing happens to me whenever i wear anything that has nickel in it, which most cheaper jewelry does!
I have an allergi to nickel aswell, that is the first thing I though when she said that.
I actually had a nose job under a local, and made them get a mirror so I could watch. I don't know if they would do that for just anyone, butI worked at the hospital and knew the doc.
Your braver than I am to request it! x
I got my face ripped open by a dog once, I didn’t feel it tho. It was all bloody and weird looking, it was cool. I’m all healed now but the scar tissue underneath the scar is bumpy 😅
No exciting scars for me. There are self harm scars from my teens and the rest are from cat scratches I got as a child lol
It's not that the surgeon doesn't know it's a big deal to you or that you are scared. They are literally taught to ignore that. His behaviour was textbook.
I've had a lot of surgery and now I'm a major mess of medical PTSD
I always ask if I can listen to music at situations like that. I haven’t asked that at the doctors, but I have at the dentist.
I can see how it can help some people x
Omg I have a few keloids too this was so relatable lol
Roly should react to this!
I had to have teeth pulled because braces and your awake when they do it and it was so traumatic
Dreamy folf me too. It’s so traumatic and lots of blood is involved which was great, me being someone who passes out when I see blood 🤦♀️
Really gross scar story; I got a daith piercing. It had keloids for 2 years.
The first year I had it, the bumps progressively got worse until one day while I was in class, it burst. I went home early, had it removed. Real smart guy here, because once the spot healed over I got it redone.
It scarred up again, and for another year had bumps, and I'd just go about my day with bad pains in my ear.
The whole time I was treating it with a saline solution, and it just didn't help. My piercer took a look at it and said " you should put this specific eye medication on it and see if that helps." And I thought, screw it, I might as well.
The medication for who knows what reason actually helped, and I've found that I always get piercing bumps unless I use this specific medication.
nose piercing would look amazing on u
i managed to get a keloid on my nose when i got it pierced, the issue is that that i didnt know what it was so i tried to pull it out with my nails and obviously it grew bigger... wasted £15 because i had to take it out :(
my hip surgery scars are slightly keloided but thank goodness they didn't grow any more
Funny story. Kinda uncanny. But I often wondered about your chest scar as it would invariably remind me of my ex, who also looks like you, and has a June birthday, too. Her scar was also from Chickenpox.
On a separate note, it’s interesting how our unique human experience connects us. How something so microscopic such as a virus, be it Chickenpox or COVID-19, can bring about communal stories of epic proportions. Reminded me Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel.’ I guess, I’m going off on a tangent.
Ooh coincidence! A few people have commented on my chest scar, I've had people tease me thinking it was a hickey too!
Very true, and very philosophical x
Yup. Totally get the hickey angle. I used to tease my ex about it. Haha!
Hope you’re having a good weekend.
Didn't know Keloid Scaring happened more regularly to POC, honestly my pale ass body doesn't seem to give a fuck about that little fact.
Got a piercing horror story myself, and the first one I ever did with a needle actually, was the one that became the horror story, with surgery included on it and the whole shabang. It never got to looking quite as bad as yours, because I just took my health insurance and went private the moment that my hair strands touching my year hurt so much it was unbearable. Tbh I ended up paying about 20 euros for the whole thing, meet a great doctor that did everything else I needed for free. Wouldn't recommend the experience, but it turned out way better than it could've had, I got way less stitches than Shaaba. I honestly felt like making a video about this now, but it would probably suck.
The result of that little adventure was no more ear piercings for me and I just decided to straight up tattoo my ears.
Sorry you had to go through that, but glad it's ended well with cool tattoos (: x
Poor Shaaba :( I am glad that the platelets calmed down and stopped making scar tissue. Does anyone have what I am calling blood freckles? xx
I won’t lie that title put me into shock
I got chicken pox when I was in my 30s. It was awful!
Ahh sorry to hear that, adult pox sucks! x
I’ve never had chicken pox. I’m in my 30s now and I’m on an immunosuppressant. Adults on the same medication and got chicken pox, 50% of them died. I’m really scared of chicken pox. I avoid kids like the plague.
I got my nose peirced around 2 years ago with a stud - it fell out multiple times and so I became paranoid and 'pushed' it in too far and so the stud is stuck in my nose (skin grew over the stud). It doesn't hurt - but I do have metal in my nose 😅 I can get it surgically removed but it's not causing me harm so it's just chilling :')
That's so interesting! I'm glad it's not causing you any harm haha, but I am curious as to whether that would get picked up by a security metal detector! x
@@shaaba Possibly! I know I can't get an MRI scan with it still in there (yikes)
I had a keloid on my ear from an industrial piercing on my ear and it was terrible. My mom called it my elf ear. I did the shots for a while, got frustrated bc I felt like it wasn’t doing anything and got it cut off. The healing process is terrible and it came back but it was small so I left it alone...needless to say, I’ve moved on to tattoos now 💀😂
(love your username!) sorry you experienced this too, but I love the term 'elf ear!'
Tattoos are great :P x
My Mam had awful chicken pox in her 30s, it was even in her mouth and throat so she couldn't eat anything. I think she went down to 7st (scary low for a 5'6 woman). Mine was bad enough, at around 6, I was completely covered and couldn't sleep. I can't imagine not being able to eat either 😳
That does sound awful, so sorry to hear that!
I'm 29 and have never had the chicken pox 😒
Is it weird I avoided this video because I thought it was a story of a mushroom growing out of your ear canal, but the keloid scar doesn't bother me, even though it's probably more eek.
I don’t know if it’s because my father is an acupuncturist so I was desensitized to needles at age 2 and have been consistently getting acupuncturist since (I’m currently 28) or the fact that I’m hopelessly addicted to tattoos I’m curious as to why you’re afraid of needles Shaaba? Did something happen to bring about the fear?
That is a lot of needle exposure! My mum has a really bad needle phobia so I think it'll likely be from that, it's super irrational and I understand that it doesn't hurt much, my body just goes a bit silly and takes over my mind! I do LOVE tattoos though and got my first one recently. I was super scared because of my needle phobia but luckily I didn't make too much of a fuss and I love my tattoo (first of many hopefully!) x
Shaaba. Oh I don’t think it’s irrational at all! Everyone’s different so I was just curious if there was a particular reason for your phobia. 🤗 Oh yes I love tattoos as well! I am so hopelessly addicted. Currently waiting to get my seventh tattoo done once it is safe enough for the tattoo shops to open back up.
chicken poks..... I've never had them i hope i don't get it like Shaaba
How did I not know Shaaba has a law degree? What’s the difference between college and university in the UK?
College is like what sets you up to go to university, so you can get a lower level qualification that you may need in order to get onto the university course you want. You cant get a degree from college, you can get btec qualifications and diploma's but not a proper degree, you have to go to university if you want that.
haha! UK college is the last few years of high school in the US. And college in the US is the equivalent of our Universities x
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What hospital agreed to remove your keloid?
Gross 😁but interesting
Where's the video your mom did of the steroid injections? Also I live in the states so what is nrs?
The NHS is universal healthcare in the United Kingdom.
It is the most effective system to provide healthcare in Europe ~20% cheaper per capita than Germany, ~60% cheaper than the US, again per capita.**
It worked similar to a single payer system for a long time, but the conservative government in the UK has been underfunding it intentionaly, for a few years:
1.To make the case for privatisation, if it underperforms as intended.*
2. To have leway for tax reductions etc..
3. They reallowed private insurance some years back, and an undefunded public sceme allows the private sector to outbid them in terms of salary. -> Leading to one of the biggest staff shortages in Europe.
Despite this, the NHS is still widely regarded as the best healthcare provider in Europe (as of 2018).
Recently rumors about opening the UK markets to US healthcare interests, as part of a trade deal to reduce the impact of Brexit, have been heard surrounding British politics.
*This could be the reason why Shaaba clarifyed in the beginning that she likes the NHS and that her negative experience is, most likely, a consequence of underfunding.
This hopefully covered the gist, have a beautiful day :)
**www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/cost-of-healthcare-countries-ranked-2019-3
(Disclaimer: English is only a second language to me)
@@seferdi4439 thank you so much very great information. As I live in the states I had no idea. And your English was great bettter than mine lol.
Am I the only one who wants to see the steroid injection video?
Sadly I don't have that one anymore :P
Nose piercings hurt like hell but honestly i kinda miss mine. I'm gonna get my lip pierced again because my neighbor is actually my piercer so gonna hope for a discount lol. But he's great, he gave us some self made wild boar sausage today.
Aww as long as you're being safe, what a cute community sausage act! x
I understand that it is cultural, but I can't help but cringe about every step of your piercing story:
Pierced with a gun
Probably not good quality jewelry
On/near a formed keloid
You turned the jewelry
And slept on it
You just really had the cards stacked against you on this ☹ I'm sorry you had such a terrible experience!
Hindsight is a wonderful thing :P x