Asked by John - Water Blister Healing: I have a water blister and I'm wondering how long will this take to be unnoticeable?  Eventually it will scab and be red, will this actually take several weeks before it heals?  I'm guessing it will.

Anonymous Says: John, obviously the size and "deepness" matters like what caused the blister?  Burn?   It would matter how deep it burned.  The deeper it is the longer to heal.   In most cases I would plan on the blister part being gone in just over a week but not healed.  There will then be a scab which will need to heal but will be smaller and less red each day.  Then eventually the scab will probably fall off a week later (let it fall off on its own, picking at it will irritate and make it red and last longer because you are interrupting the healing).  Then you will have a red area there will slowly go away over time. My guess is you are looking at 3 weeks

Anonymous Says: I had a water blister that was from getting a spot on skin frozen at dermatologist.  For me the blister and scab was gone completely in about 2 and half weeks.  There will be a tender skin spot there after it but today its really hard to see any kind of mark there at all so scar will go away eventually

Anonymous Says: I currently have 2 water blisters on shoulder from dermatologist freezing the skin spot.  for example probably each the size of a dime or maybe a little smaller.  The doctor also told me he was going to freeze them deeper so he did them once, let it thaw for 30 seconds or so then did them again.  I will post back when gone.  Right now its day 3, and it was really only sore that first day, almost like a burn but not bad, now you cant even feel it other then you can see it obviously.  I'll post back when they are gone completely.

Anonymous Says: Here is my update. Its officially 8 days exactly and the water blisters are scabs at this point. They have almost completely hardened and the red area around them has decreased substantially down to just around the scab now.   They dont look good obviously, kind of like a brownish yellowish scab color but the red inflamed area extending out around it is mostly gone at 1 week now, so thats good. Here is what the blister scab currently looks like after 8 days have passed. The scabs feel like they are about to fall off (but I will leave them fall off naturally). It doesnt hurt at all and you can see the redness is mostly gone around it.

Anonymous Says: Documenting the progress, it is now day 9 and both scabs have fallen off on their own, the water blisters are now officially gone. Its kind of just rough red patch on the skin there now. It doesnt look that bad, I'm guessing at this point the skin should look a little better each day going forward. In case you are wondering, I do take 1 vitamin D3 tablet every morning (always heard thats good for many things so not sure if that helped heal this faster :-)

Anonymous Says: Also on this, you definitely dont want pop or poke at it that first week.  I had a blister just like this in the past that I had kept popping (and I remember it being sore so I think that poking was irritating it now that I think about it) and I KNOW it was a week longer then this before it was gone.  I'm convinced if you want it gone faster dont irritate it, and even sleeping dont roll over and tear it as that will delay healing.

Anonymous Says: Documenting the progress, exactly 2 weeks so its day 14, even though the scabs fell off 5 days ago, it kind of scaled over for another 5 days (although much smaller) and then that shed today so its just a red area there now, no scab at all.  Alot of the red is gone also, basically just red where that secondary scab was in the center and feels smooth when you rub hand over it.  Looks like 14 days total to finish.

Anonymous Says: thx for feedback, good to knw

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