Splotches in Cautery Brand

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Tuesday August 12th, 2008 @ 4:19 PM

Filed under: Branding

I have a 7 month old cautery brand on my forearm, down by my wrist. It has healed to the point where it has all turned white.

Except for a few random purple splotches. Sometimes they’re really evident, sometimes they’re almost gone. They are also not open wounds, or raised up - they’re flush with the rest of the scar.

My best guess is that blood pooled underneath the scar?

I’m going to see my artist ASAP, in two weeks, to see what he thinks, but I just wanted to get another opinion.

I have a five-year-old cautery brand on MY forearm, funnily enough, and it looked exactly the same for awhile during the healing! By the time it was a 12-18 months old, it had pretty much all settled down into the same colour of white scarring. I’m really not sure why it healed so unevenly - like you, there was no rhyme or reason to it, just the odd splotch of high-coloured scar tissue amidst the rest of the white scar tissue - but if I had to guess, I’d say yours will probably settle down over time, too. Seven months is really not long enough to assume that your scar will look like that forever, it’s pretty early days yet!