Mepiform 4" x 7" - 1 Dressing

So I love this product. I am in a pretty serious recovery process, involving massive skin grafts all along my booty. They itch like nothing in this world. They are red and puffy, and sometimes painful. After many weeks in the hospital, and a few follow up visits with my doctor, I was given a prescription for Mepiform.Having been using Mepilex Lite for the last month, it didn't take much convincing for me to purchase this.This product is wonderful. Number one, its easy to cut and sticks easily to the wound site. Much better adhesive than the mepilex, though if it sticks to itself, you're done. Game over. You will not salvage that piece.Number two: its washable. Let that sink in. You can take these strips, clean them with a little antibacterial body wash, rinse and let them dry. In a few hours they are sticky again. I can usually get 4-5 uses out of a single sheet.Number three: pain, itching, and scarring have significantly decreased. I tend to put this on problem areas, ones that are most often irritated, the ones in most danger of becoming big unsightly scars. This not only helped reduce the swelling, but softened the collagen in the skin, making it easier for me to break up during my routine moisturizing sessions. (I lay there and massage lotion into my butt skin until the skin graft/collagen dissolves/looks like the rest of my butt skin) I have significantly reduced my scar mass. I no longer fear having a great big permanent red tramp stamp scar across the top of my butt. It was especially helpful on the tailbone. It was just too painful to massage for long periods of time. Mepiform has helped in leaps in bounds.My only issue is the price. Though a box is shown, this listing is for individual sheets. Okay, stupid me for not reading more carefully. Still a good deal for this product, especially since my prescription insurance ended just in time for me to need this gem.Still love this product. Absolute life saver.

This was recommended by my oncological surgeon's head nurse at Johns Hopkins after my surgical scars started to hypertrophy and become raised and started to look like keloid scars. Nobody told me how to use it and online instructions were contradictory. I asked my reconstructive surgeon and her nurse during a follow-up visit and they said you can leave it on while you shower. Other instructions tell you to remove it and replace it during your daily wash, and you can replace with same pieces you had just removed, but that's kind of time consuming and annoying; i know, because that's what I tried at first and i stopped using it. Now i basically leave it on for up to 3 weeks and my usually very sensitive skin has had no adverse reactions, while the hypertrophic scarring noticeably/significantly reduced. Even my reconstructive surgeon was pretty surprised. I'm using it for a 2nd 3-week round after leaving it off for 2 weeks, and will check back in. My conclusion up to this point is that this product is effective in reducing raised/hypertrophic/keloid scars and one sheet of this size can last a very long time if you use it the way i do, which is to cut and place small pieces directly over the scars and just leave it on there as long as it stays, which can be up to 3 weeks. It stays put during showers. I'm really glad this was recommended to me and that i found out how to use it.Update 2/28/16: The scars are no longer raised. Definitely try this product before resorting to the steroid injections which can cause skin discoloration which is much worse than the scar itself.

I have used this on 2 different scar areas (one was post op foot surgery, the other post op anterior hip replacement and both times have been satisfied with the results. It adheres quite well in the shower. I cut the pieces to the size of the incisions so found one piece of 4x7” worked for quite awhile

Very good

Purchased a sheet of Mepiform for two small incision scars from laparoscopic surgery after my doctor commented my scars were keloids at my post-op appointment (06/30). At this time, one month after procedure, scars had not become raised or grown past edges of incision as keloids are said to do and I'm happy to say, they have not to this date!! (08/01) Before getting silicone sheets I had been applying Mederma for nearly 2wks but not so much since keeping them covered w/silicone sheet 24/7. I do cut pieces to size from the sheet as incisions were very small and wash/re-apply daily for a week before cutting more/new pieces. Scars are not raised, not growing or as hard as they felt when doctor commented they were keloids so I'm very happy w/this product! Will continue to use as I understand scar tissue takes some time to complete and mine are still somewhat purple so hoping they'll also fade w/time. My fiance did also purchase some Scaraway sheets for me which didn't stick as well as these do and noticed that product box stated, "This product is not sterile" whereas the Mepiform packaging DOES state "STERILE" ..not that I suppose that matters so much since you're not to use these sheets on open wounds but still the difference caught my eye. Who doesn't prefer sterile?! :) Also was happy this product arrived quickly!!