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Zerona Fat Lazer - 20 Treatments, No Results

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Please do not do the Zerona fat zapping lazer. ...

gailbuddy
$2,000

Please do not do the Zerona fat zapping lazer. They will not give you your money back.

I got 20 treatments, and not one result. If you have had the same response please let me know, i think we should file a suit against the makers of the lazer. They say it doesnt work for everyone, but its actually not working on most people.

If it seems to good to be true, it is!!!

gailbuddy's provider

Dr Jade Mallay

Replies (81)

July 23, 2009
I am right there with you. I lost the money too and it is flat out stealing huge amounts of money. I am surprised they have the audacity to charge so much knowing this. It needs to absolutely be banned.
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July 30, 2009
I'm just curious, would you pay less for the treatments, like say $100.00 per session or would you not spend a dime because you did not get ANY results? I guess what I am trying to say is did you get ANY results?
August 6, 2009
Not one result, well actually, i felt my skin looked flabbier after treatments, it like jellied the fat up, made it loser, so i feel i look worse, and i did everything right, i would have stood on my head if they told me to!
June 25, 2012
NONE!!!
August 5, 2009
If you dedicated a room in an expensive medical office to treat one patient for 6 hours over the course of two weeks, and you told him/her it is possible he/she could be a non-responder who gets no or mediocre results, would it make sense to offer a full refund? I know many plastic surgeons who do not deliver great surgical results to every patient, but they still are out $2000 for the operating room fee even if the patient is unimpressed after healing. Read some Biotech clinic drug trial reports sometime - nothing works on every human being, so it is prudent for providers to perform a pre-treatment consultation stating the facts about the magnitude of average results. It is the patient who willingly signs the Informed Consent and hands over the money for the treatment or surgery. If you have a laser treatment that you think fails to deliver results, the problem is likely not the laser. I know because I have used over 30 kinds of lasers and gotten every one of them to work very well. Rather, the problem should be one of the following: *The device operator or treatment provider is not careful enough or well-enough trained *The patient benefits, but cannot remember that he/she used to look a little different, due to very common and normal psychological phenomena *The patient is a non-responder, which is normally a full 10% of patients for any type of non-surgical procedure *The patient claims he/she followed the rules (e.g., do not eat banana cream pie after meals or do not eat fast-food every day), even though he/she DID NOT follow the physician's recommendations given out at the pre-treatment consultation FYI: It is interesting that 2 competing devices to Zerona are paying for ads that appear on this same page. Hmmm...what else might they be putting onto this page and into this section of RealSelf? Consider that the device named Zerona was not available until about June 15, and patients are supposed to go through a 30 day protocol...and yet a bunch of people already have posted negative comments in early July? Today is August 5, and most states still have a grand total of ZERO Zerona providers, as far as I can tell. Try gathering info through real discussions in real doctors' offices with real providers and speak with real patients who have actually completed the 30 day protocol.
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September 9, 2009
Hear, hear.
August 24, 2011
Did they pay you to say this...or you are involved in this rip off???
August 18, 2009
I'm too good to be true, but I just am. I can't help it. Haahaha. Well I started zerona last friday and I didn't see this review first. Oh well I have to follow through with it and see what happens. Lesson learned.
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January 8, 2010
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.
August 18, 2009
Why would you do 20 sessions if the first 6 didn't work? Why only $2,000?
August 20, 2009
They just got the machine in that week and were offering a special, i was the first patient, and it makes me mad that docs are saying its the patients fault if it wont work, i started the recommended supplements 2 weeks prior, and continued for 2 months after taking pills 2 times a day, drank lots of water, worked out, ate low fat, did massage, foot detox, stretches, wore girdles, like i said, i would stand on my head if they asked, i did it all right, and i did my homework on zerona, i saw the "Doctors" show on tv, looked at every website that said they now have the machine, some docs have had this machine for over a year for studies, and i even called docs in florida and texas that were the first ones to have it, and ALL of them said, and even the website says, and even the zerona makers say on there web site, that EVERYONE got results, it does have a short sentence that says it might not work on everyone, but everyone got results, i have before and after pics, it does not work!!! Im not body dysmorfic. I am an actual patient, and im out $2,000, the reason i got 20 treatments, is because i was his first patient, and he kept giving me more treatments to see if it will work. Im 100% healthy, just had a physical with perfect blood work, so they cant try and blame it on that. Please just save your money and start dieting and working out, they recommend that anyway, so alot of people are seeing results from that and all the water you have to drink.
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January 7, 2010
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%.