A couple of years ago, I had an itchy rash under my breasts. Long story short, a doctor gave me some steroid cream (I didn't know it contained steroids) which helped clear it up pretty well, but not completely, so I kept using the cream. I developed these hideous red and purple and blue marks on my body; they looked "angry," if you know what I mean.

I asked my doctor about them, but he didn't say anything, really, just nodding that he saw them. I went to a dermatologist, and her assistant was the first to see these marks on me and she gasped. The dermatologist told me to stop using the steroid cream immediately and prescribed an OTC powder (Zeosorb), which eventually cured the itchy rash. She said it was the steroids that were causing these horrible marks on me.

I was told the marks were severe stretch marks, and there's no way to get rid of them. I was devastated, and wanted to sue my doctor. However, the lawyers I spoke with told me the case wasn't "big enough." My mom, ever unsupportive, took up for the doctor: "He didn't mean to." Now, I have these hideous marks on my stomach and, worse, my breasts, so that even if I showed some cleavage, you could see it. The marks have lightened up (but still very noticeable, pink and blueish) and are nowhere as shocking as they were in the beginning, but I feel deformed and I feel nothing I ever do will make me feel good about my body. I already had weight issues and flabby, stretched skin to feel like crap about, but the stretch marks really have beaten down my self-esteem.

I'm told plastic surgery won't remove stretch marks, unless you're having like a tummy tuck and the skin that's removed has stretch marks on it. I would like to know if anyone knows other information; is there plastic surgery that might remove these marks, or am I stuck with them? Thanks.