Help! Stretch marks from running?

[qumquat]

I've recently discover stretch marks over the sides of my hips, my upper thighs, and they are now spreading onto my stomach. I don't have any DCs yet and my weight hasn't changed dramatically in either direction. The only thing I have changed recently is that I have started running - could the running be causing the stretch marks?

Can anyone offer me any advice for how to stop any more developing?

Many thanks!

Hi qumquat, your weight might not have changed but you could be developing muscle causing the skin to stretch? I just know that my brother got them when he started going to the gym.

I was v prone to stretch marks as a teenager but managed to avoid them in pregnancy by a combination of high strength vitamin e capsules (broken open and applied on skin) and Bio oil.

Good luck

Running gave me stretch marks so I stopped!!

I stick to power walking now and they have gone completely.