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Chemical Peel - Belgium
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I had a croton oil/phenol peeling. It was horrible...
SunlionJune 15, 2014
$3,000
I had a croton oil/phenol peeling.
It was horrible , the pain and burning are severe.
Now I still have problems with my forehead. It's red and painful.
I also have red and rough spots on my cheeks. Has anybody had the same and will the rough spots disappear later?
Thanks for any comment.
I have found that washing your face with water and a little vinegar is helpful, also putting a wet towel on your face helps.
It was horrible , the pain and burning are severe.
Now I still have problems with my forehead. It's red and painful.
I also have red and rough spots on my cheeks. Has anybody had the same and will the rough spots disappear later?
Thanks for any comment.
I have found that washing your face with water and a little vinegar is helpful, also putting a wet towel on your face helps.
UPDATED FROM Sunlion
1 month post
Posted my update as comment no. 6
SunlionJune 23, 2014
Look at comment no.6
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February 23, 2015
I was wondering if you were able to find a solution to the rough spots on your cheeks. I have a Hetter peel done around my eyes a little over 3 weeks ago and I have bumpy, rough areas around the whole area and it is not getting better. If anyone has any advice, please help! I think the doctor didn't have me wash my face enough with vinegar. He told me to just put on Vaseline for the first 4 days and then he told me to start with vinegar one time a day. I just started using olive oil on my face a couple of days ago.
February 24, 2015
You are only 3 weeks out. Hetter is based by phenol, what is the deepest chemical peel. Your skin is still in healing and peeling. It will take months to normalize. Dont use olive oil an fresh skin! Use a good moisturizer with healing properitys for sensitive skin. I am also 4 weeks out of phenol and my face looks like you describe your areas.
August 4, 2015
I had this same peel almost 4 years ago. Yes, it was very painful in the beginning......my face was very red for a very long time but I was able to cover it up with make up. Also, if I got hot or drank wine it made my face get really red. It also felt very tight and rough in spots. I had a hard time opening my mouth all the way. My Dr. explained to me from the beginning that it was going to be like that to make sure I still wanted to go through with it. I did, I was 65 at the time and had wrinkles around mouth, forehead and on my face. I saw improvements along the way but, after about a year, the redness faded and my face looked wonderful. Be patient, your face is like a newborn baby face, it will be adapting and changing until your finally healed. Good look to you....it's going to be wonderful.
January 19, 2021
Your messages date back several years. But if you are reading this:
has your skin recovered in the meantime?
did you received compensation from your doctor?
Thanks for sharing.
has your skin recovered in the meantime?
did you received compensation from your doctor?
Thanks for sharing.
UPDATED FROM Sunlion
1 month post
Still not sure.
SunlionJune 24, 2014
I can't tell if it will be worth while. I'm still waiting to heal. Unfortunately this is not predictable but as soon as I know myself I'll post it. In my opinion it never will be worth the pain and anguish I went through. It's certainly not appropriate for sensitive skin like mine.
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August 4, 2015
Had mine done 4 years ago, it takes a long time to completely heal....at least a year
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Chemical Peel Recovery Time
I was left with 5 scars on my face. I've already done 3 laser treatments here in Asia and they are not fully removed. The 'little bit of redness' as he described it were still not gone a year later. As a man I can't apply make up so the last year has been a nightmare and I lost most of my media work and missed out on social life because of it. In fact, 'any' results I had of my whole treatment with him was gone before the redness started to subside.
Even for the redness I had to take two laser treatments here too as my skin was overly pigmentated and the cream he gave me was not to be used and illegal in Thailand as it has an adverse effect on the skin in a warm climate.
I even had the surgery performed on my eyes and they didn't remind me to remove my contact lenses!
His bedside manners are horrible. He came off as looking down on his clients (I told him so in person, after which it got a bit better).
His emails are just full of excuses and try to show that everything went exactly as planned. I got an email from him a few weeks ago, after I emailed him I'd plan to review him online, in which he finally asked me to send me the most recent pictures. I've never heard from him again.
I had nose surgery done by him 13 years ago when he just started and was happy, that's why I chose him. Now it has become a money-grabbing surgery-factory that couldn't care less about their customers.
I'm sorry. This may not be what you want to hear but I hope others read this before ever considering even meeting him. I wish someone had warned me.
Make sure to keep pressing him. Document as much as possible, take pictures, even voice record and also get a second opinion after some more months.
Hope you recover well. Please let us know how it goes.
Chris
I don't know if you got my reply or not. But I would like to bring him to justice through the medical board in Belgium. Would you agree to join me in the complaint?
If not only to avoid people having this experience. I've got a written letter of my dermatologist to prove. His malpractice. I suffered a lot and have redness and white spots on my skin to proof deep burns.