Day 3, the stinging is back!

At first, there was nothing to be felt. I thought it would be painless like this for the rest of the journey but it's not. There's an ever so slight pain in my ear, as if I had first put the bands on (the kind where I know it's actively working because I can feel something is fighting it lols). It used to come and go very quickly, but now... there is a slight discomfort, there's no denying it.

Due to how 3D it is now (I used to plaster it down so tight, so it would be flatter), I couldn't wear my plaster like how I used to. Firstly, it was sticky (no padding of any sort) and it's not ideal in this case (remember how it tore a layer of skin along with the plaster?). Secondly, plasters with the padding cannot wrap around it comfortably! So I was better off hiding it with my hair. Luckily the keloid is super dry, kind of tough (tougher than yesterday) so my hair wont be an issue to it.

This is what I look like when I cover it at work (hair has to be tied up neatly). What the side view looks like... and what's going on underneath. I'm so insecure about it! I can not wait for this experience to be over lol (just when I forgot about the pain, it's back lol. Just an annoying discomfort rather than anything close to unbearable) -- still in the morning.

(update) It's noon and I'm home from work. I'm worried that the elastic bands have lost its elasticity and is not just sitting comfortably around the keloid. Just to be safe, I carefully added a new elastic band to keep the tightness fresh. This time it's blue. Now the discomfort is most certainly there lol. It's not so bad.. I don't feel the urge to run for the ice at the moment like I did on day 1.

At first, the blue band was visible, so I'm guessing, because its elasticity is fresh, it has cut deeper underneath the other two bands. I notice the base getting smaller since the new band. I also notice that parts of the keloid are in fact black. I'm assuming the keloid has officially died in these parts and will spread to cover the whole keloid until the real wait begins.

This pain is very distracting. Not bad, but distracting. I just want the healing process to begin already.. This journey is serious, what a commitment.