I had my first one done Monday afternoon. This is Thursday and I still have some "screen door" effect. HOWEVER, I was swollen and red for ONE DAY. I can already see my skin popping out looking better than it has in many, many years. Especially under my eyes where it was done a litle more aggressively. I'm thinking that I will do this on a regular basis, as long as this is available and until something better comes along. I really, really, really don't ever want a facelift. My mom had one years ago by the best doctor around, and years later, you could see her wrinkling in an odd pattern, due to that facelift. If I have to have some kind of laser thing done every year for the rest of my life, that's much better than having horizontal wrinkles on my face from face lifts.
I've read some of the other "reviews" and I can't believe they actually had Pixel treatments, given how extreme their side effects were. My procedure was done at 1100 joules...totally done under the correct parameters for my skin type as set up by the manufacturers of the machine. (Alma)
I had similar effects that you did.
I have a hard time believing that so many laser operators would work outside the parameters of the machine to substantiate the multitude of "oh, it was so painful" or the "oh I was red for weeks" out there.
My procedure was done in Stafford, VA incidentally.
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