“Sun damage as a side effect to micro-dermabrasion and glycolic peels?”
Glycolic peel: NOT worth it
Cost: $1,000
Pain: Mild
Pain: Mild
Glycolic peel satisfaction: Poor
I do not recommend my Glycolic peel provider: Name not provided
Why: I wasn't made aware of potenial side effects.
I had a consulation with a nurse as I was concerned about forhead wrinkles and crows feet. I was recommended a 6 week course of micro-dermabrasion with glycolic facial peel.
I spent a couple of hours sitting in the sun in the garden a few weeks after my last micro-derm and glycolic peel. When I came in I had a large mottled brown patch of skin on both cheeks. I returned to the clinic I had the treatment who said it was hyper-pigmentation caused by the sun. I've googled micr-derm and realised that this can be a side effect. The clinic have sold me a furter 6 micro-derm and glycholic peel sessions to restore my skin colour. So far I've had 3 with little effect.
May 29, 2009Comments and replies (2)
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31 Jul 2009
Sorry you had a bad experience, but every surgery should tell you not to sit in the sun after a peel. Cant blame the peel on that I'm afraid!
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4 Aug 2009
I wasn't informed about any possible side effects. I asked about the risks and was told it was perfectly safe with no side effects! I was only in the garden for a short time, in the weak April sun in England - hardly sunburn weather. Had I been informed of the potential risk, I obviously would have taken the necessary precautions. It's the fact I asked, on two separate occassions, what the risks/possible side effects were and was lied to that I'm annoyed about. I have since had a private consultation with a dermatologist who recommended a course of 6 IPL laser sessions to rectify this. He said the results were not gauranteed, and it may only FADE the pigmentation. He also informed me that if I EVER exposed my skin to the sun again, it would return. So I guess I have learnt NEVER to take at face value what a beautician tells me, and to do thorough research about ANY procedure, no matter how "harmless" I am told it is by the beautician.