WOW! Thank you both for your quick replies. I'm definitely going to cancel the Fraxel appointment and seek a second opinion -- that is, if other dermatologists will see me. If not, I will try the plastic surgeon route. At any rate, it wasn't like I had perfect skin to begin with so I can wait a little longer to seek out other solutions. It's just so disheartening because I waited so long and saved so much to get the IPL procedure done, and now I possibly have to spend more time and more money fixing their damage. Ugh! I'm not sure what kind of legal recourse I could take given all the waivers I signed. I can only hope that they will admit to their fault and refund all or some of what I spent -- I won't hold my breath.
The odd thing is that I had a laser treatment (V-beam I think) done about four years ago on my nose just to get rid of the blood vessels, and everything went just fine. Some light bruising, but the end result was very positive. So I thought with the IPL being "so much better and safer" there would be no reason to be concerned. Boy, was I wrong! I do feel foolish buying into this procedure and wish now that I would have done more research on what could go wrong rather than how *fantastic* my skin was going to be afterwards.
Thank you again for sharing your experiences with me. It's sad that we're here, but at least we do have a forum in which to come together and talk (type) about what we're going through. As soon as I have more information I'll send and update.
I, too, am a victim of a laser treatment gone awry.
I recently had an IPL treatment performed to reduce some facial redness caused by rosacea, as well as razor burn on my neck. While I had good results with reducing the redness in my cheeks and neck areas, my nose wasn't so lucky and I now have three sizable "dents" in the area where my nose meets my cheeks (one dent on the right and two on the left). Sound familiar?
I'm pretty convinced that the physician assistant performing the procedure turned up the power on the laser to get rid of some rather large capillaries on my nose and this in turn caused the dents. It was very painful and I could smell my own skin burning. I didn't say anything right then and there because I didn't really see the damage until about three weeks after the procedure due to the fact that the areas kept getting scabs/white heads on them.
So I went back to the clinic and this time saw the actual dermatologist. He said this was very rare and that it happened in maybe every "1 in 1,000" patients. I was a bit peeved by this because, of course, I wasn't made aware of this potential issue during the initial consultation. Nonetheless, I wanted to focus on how to fix the problem and his recommendation is to perform Fraxel treatment (free of charge, of course) on me. The goal with Fraxel is to get the collagen in the area stirred up so that it plumps the skin up and gets rid of the dents.
Obviously, I’m very apprehensive about doing anything involving a laser again and was wondering how your treatments (subcision and Retin-A) were coming along? I’m considering getting a second opinion but want to learn more so I know what to ask this time around. This whole process has been very distressing as I’m sure you both understand.
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Posted to Nd:yag 1064nm for Broken Capillaries on Nose: WARNING - Can Cause Scarring! - London, UK on 25 Jun 2012
The odd thing is that I had a laser treatment (V-beam I think) done about four years ago on my nose just to get rid of the blood vessels, and everything went just fine. Some light bruising, but the end result was very positive. So I thought with the IPL being "so much better and safer" there would be no reason to be concerned. Boy, was I wrong! I do feel foolish buying into this procedure and wish now that I would have done more research on what could go wrong rather than how *fantastic* my skin was going to be afterwards.
Thank you again for sharing your experiences with me. It's sad that we're here, but at least we do have a forum in which to come together and talk (type) about what we're going through. As soon as I have more information I'll send and update.
Posted to Nd:yag 1064nm for Broken Capillaries on Nose: WARNING - Can Cause Scarring! - London, UK on 25 Jun 2012
I, too, am a victim of a laser treatment gone awry.
I recently had an IPL treatment performed to reduce some facial redness caused by rosacea, as well as razor burn on my neck. While I had good results with reducing the redness in my cheeks and neck areas, my nose wasn't so lucky and I now have three sizable "dents" in the area where my nose meets my cheeks (one dent on the right and two on the left). Sound familiar?
I'm pretty convinced that the physician assistant performing the procedure turned up the power on the laser to get rid of some rather large capillaries on my nose and this in turn caused the dents. It was very painful and I could smell my own skin burning. I didn't say anything right then and there because I didn't really see the damage until about three weeks after the procedure due to the fact that the areas kept getting scabs/white heads on them.
So I went back to the clinic and this time saw the actual dermatologist. He said this was very rare and that it happened in maybe every "1 in 1,000" patients. I was a bit peeved by this because, of course, I wasn't made aware of this potential issue during the initial consultation. Nonetheless, I wanted to focus on how to fix the problem and his recommendation is to perform Fraxel treatment (free of charge, of course) on me. The goal with Fraxel is to get the collagen in the area stirred up so that it plumps the skin up and gets rid of the dents.
Obviously, I’m very apprehensive about doing anything involving a laser again and was wondering how your treatments (subcision and Retin-A) were coming along? I’m considering getting a second opinion but want to learn more so I know what to ask this time around. This whole process has been very distressing as I’m sure you both understand.