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Striae can happen from weight gain or growth. With extreme cases the striae can be red or purplish. This is the blood you are seeing under the skin from the skin tearing, think of it like a stretch mark with a bruise. Bruises in normal people eventually heal. However if a bruise (ie the red/purple striae) stay it is due to repeated injury there. (ie skin still stretching). If your stretch marks have faded to silver, that means the skin under the stretch mark has healed and isn't being damaged as much anymore. This can mean that perhaps you are healing enough, or your aren't gaining weight (or volume) any more. Sometimes stretchmarks never go red and grow nevertheless because the skin is thick enough or you heal it quickly enough. 

Note: When I say bruise, I am using the word to simplify this, but it isn't exactly a bruise. You have lots of skin, and when the skin is thicker you don't see the wound from the skin ripping, just the scar. 

And of course, a cushie can any color striae, or even none at all! It depends on a lot of factors, like age, how much weight gain, whether you have other illnesses that think the skin as well, genetics, etc etc etc. There are some pregnant women with no stretch marks. Everyone is different. There is no symptom that every single cushing's patient has. I believe my doctor mentioned that red striae is less common than central obesity in cushings. 

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