When I have Fraxel at the deeper setting, it burns so bad that it's barely tolerable, even with numbing cream for 90 minutes prior. I don't think of myself as wimpy when it comes to pain, but the last procedure was killer. Is there more that can be done to reduce pain? Injections? I want to keep doing it!
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