Gravity

It's official--the Cica-Care strips don't stay on my face any better than the ScarAway strips did.  In fact, I think Cica-Care is worse.  After a few days the stickiness (is that the silicone?) seems to wear off.  And the strip just slides off my face, even at night.  One night I taped a Band Aid over it to keep it on.  When I got up the next morning, the strip slipped through the Band Aid and fell off.  I think the Cica-Care is more susceptible to gravitational pull because it's thicker and heavier.  I try to keep the strips on through breakfast, but invariably they come off and I lose track of them.  One Cica-Care strip ended up under my cereal bowl and in the dishwasher before I found it; today a ScarAway strip fell off and I found it on the kitchen floor.  I just have to resign myself to the fact that I'm not going to keep a strip on my face for 12 hours unless I sleep for 12 hours--and I'm not going to.  The best I can hope for is 8 hours--a few in the evening and the rest overnight.  Some days, when I'm home more, I may be able to wear the strip a few more hours during the day.  The strip stays on better when I wear a rejuvenated one during the day (as opposed to trying to keep one on in the morning that's been on my face overnight).  By rejuvenated, I mean one that's been washed and dried and laying in the ScarAway case.  But I've already thrown out one Cica-Care strip--it had lost all its stickiness; you really couldn't tell the difference between the two sides.  I'm not even sure how much good it does to cover a scar with a worn-out strip.  And who knows how much good this is doing, compared to the counter factual--that some amount of healing would occur without the silicone strips.  Time heals all wounds--to varying degrees.  Who knows how long it will take, or to what degree the wound will heal.