“Zerona Fat Lazer - 20 Treatments, No Results”

Hear, hear.

Did they pay you to say this...or you are involved in this rip off???

Well, how did your results come out? Please post them so the percentage of good or bad reviews can reflect your outcome. The total helps people weigh the negatives against possible positives for them.

I guess you answered by own question about whether I should pursue more sessions with my doctor. He only recently got his machine, I was not his first patient but close to it. I had the standard six on a $2400 "special" and got NO VISIBLE results. The measurements indicated I lost 6 inches total over all measured areas, but my clothes fit exactly the same. The before and after photos are identical. So to me, this was not successful and to me I got NO results. The Zerona makers most likely only take into account the numbers from the measurements, not the patient's satisfaction or perception of "success". If so many people are unsatisfied, they need to drop the price dramatically and tell people the visible success rate is only about 50%.

You can suspect all you like, but if you want to email me I will send you MY phone number and you can call me and I'll be happy to provide details of my unacceptable results from my 6 sessions. To further address your points, there was no patient "selection" at the clinic I went to, and I have not see criteria for Zerona at any other office I've investigated before or since. There was criteria for VASER treatment, but not Zerona. If you walk in and pay, they will set you up, period. I have had more hassle signing up at a new tanning salon than I did getting my first Zerona session. Second, it was not a 30 day protocol where I went, so that may not be standard. It was 10 days, and they tell you that results will be "seen" a week after the final session. Since I did mine over the holidays I was allowed to do treatments more often than every other day, so I did one a day for 3 days and the rest with a day in between. The doctor had no information from Zerona as to whether this was a good idea or a bad one, and when he asked the Zerona rep they could not tell him if it would make a difference one way or the other. It was all very much "wing it, see what happens." With that kind of mentality going on, they should not be charging patients full price in advance. This is not medicine, it's not even very good science. There is no technique involved, and the doctors have no idea if 20 minutes a session is best, or would 30 be better, or should they offer 6 sessions or 10, or just do it until the patient sees some sort of change! Posters on this website seem to have run the gamut and have still not seen results. Using Zerona is less hazardous than using a tanning bed, and when I asked my doctor how long he thought it would be before every household had one of these devices in the home he said "Probably within ten years." If only my results with Zerona had been as dependable and sure as what I see when I leave the tanning salon, I would be a *repeat* patient! My point is, determining "success" based strictly on numbers for a treatment that is clearly not based strictly on *science* takes unfair advantage of consumers and merely guarantees profits to doctors and Zerona. There is no way to know if a patient will be a non- or minimal-responder before all sessions are complete, yet a patient has to pay in full in advance. This is not fair. Patients need to have some definite recourse when they are "non-responders" or "minimally successful" and they need to know their options UP FRONT before they hand over their credit cards.

I did all the treatments and saw nothing at all along with many of my friends. Some even did an extra 6 and still saw nothing

Listen good...doesn't WORK AT ALLLLLLLLLL. They pull the tape measure tighter and call it result...

We should sue these ppl. If you buy a car and there is no motor in it, you get your money back... so why not for this???

I feel the same way you do. I had no results and spent $2400. The way they have their calculations set up, it is tilted in their favor. You may not get any visible results, but may still "lose" at least 3 inches from all the areas they measure combined. I feel rippied-off too. My doctor is not even offering a "redo" to see if 6 more treatments may provide some result. I am greatly disappointed and feel that the FDA should reconsider this one.

I agree that the system is set up so they always show the required 3 inches. Take your measurements wiht a tape measure at the neck, bust,arms, knees, abdomen, hips and thighs and then do it again imediately afterward and you can easily come up with a three inch difference in either direction. The sad part is that almost all of my supposed "5" inch loss was from my knees and one thigh hmmmm. Luckily my thighs are still both the same size and I attribute the strange measurements to simple user error on the part of the girl doing the measuring. Unluckily for me and many others, is that all of me is still the same size dispite my supposed "success". I think Zerona should, at the very least, show where the weight is normally lost and maybe people would understand it's not necessarily from you desired area but more likely from the bust, knees, neck etc. I certainly wouldn't have signed up to pay $2000 to lose weight in my knees.