KathyT

Accutane 10 Years Later I Am Still Happy

I know my Fraxel was suppose to be a one time event as well. Green makeup tones down pink and redness on skin, which you probably know. You look like peaches and cream in the last picture. Love the glasses too. My skin has always turned bright red when I exercise. People will ask if I am okay. My husband's is the same and we passed the trait to one of our daughters who was quite the athlete in high school. Her team went to state. Everyone would comment on it when she played ball. You are gorgeous!

I have read that Lumigan drops are more concentrated Lattisee. I am with Andi, I don't want to go cheap with my eyes. I don't like the applicators either. The bristles are so stiff that product spatters as you run it along your lash lines. Not only do you use more product but you get more in your eyes. My doctor's PC gave me more conservative directions for application than is on the package. She said to only paint it on the tips of my top eyelashes and overnight it will wick down the lash and get to the root. It has been over a month and I have been taking pictures. It is difficult to see progress with the photos but I see progress in the mirror. Also I had a bald spot on my eyebrow and I put a swipe there which is off label and the bald spot has filled in with short black hair. My daughter has a bald spot on her eyebrow because I did not insist on a plastic surgeon to stitch up her eyebrow when she was three. I let a Physcians Assistant do it. I have to forgive myself for that. Once another kid said her eyebrow looked like a boomer rang. She wants to try it on her brow but I want to be sure.

Retinoids wrecked my face once and I swear if I had any pictures of how badly it tore up my skin you would be impressed. I looked like I had rosesea for years after I quit using it. That memory is what makes me give pause and listen. No one knows why this happened to you but until they know, I am afraid to do it. I am going to use the money to redo my master bath and my closet. When they iron out the kinks in the patient selection process and/or whatever else is going wrong, I will jump on board. Plus I can't put my husband through it. He is so sad and worried. I have never seen him like this about anything else. I am out.

ThatCaGirl I have seen your pictures and they show me exactly what I want to see. You were pretty before and you look even more beautiful now. I have seen Awalks pictures and read her story and it terrifies me. Messing with a pretty face is scary business. My husband had read part of Awalk's story and saw the photos and he looked at me today as we were making the bed and he said, "Go look in the mirror and ask yourself if you want to risk ruining that face?" He sounded heartbroken. I called my doctor and postponed my procedure. I gave the patient coordinator this site and told her that is why I am spooked. I wondered if Awalk ever asked a dermatologist if he didn't know anything about her what he would assume was wrong. Please forgive me but it looks to me like the skin of a meth addict. Please don't think that I am at all implying that you take drugs. My heart is broken for you and I know that is not the problem. I just wonder if how they would treat you if they just based it on what it looks like. I wonder if meth skin is somehow like yours in a way that could lead to a treatment. Stranger things have been connected for medical advancement. ThatCaGirl, your pictures are beautiful and you got the results that I am seeking. I am so torn because like both ThatCaGirl and Awalk, my before pictures are good.