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Is it ok to get 2 IPL treatments within 1 week of each other? (Photos)

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I recently got an IPL for rosacea and am planning on doing more. I thought that you needed to wait 3-4 weeks between treatments, but the RN who did my IPL said I could do my next one in 1-2 weeks. I had some swelling that still isn't completely gone 4 days after the first treatment. The IPL also seems to have flared my rosacea, and I have a bunch of itchy red bumps on my cheeks that just appeared today. So maybe would be better to wait longer before the second one?

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