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Good luck. I had 2 Fraxel treatments and 1 year after the second treatment I still have inflammation that seems will never go away. I also have the pock marks\holes left on my skin that the laser makes, which makes enlarged pores even worse. I can't regret my desicion more to get fraxel. I got a refund for the remaining treatment. I look 20 years older than my mother. I read the other comments that claim they are so depressed they don't know how they can go on some days, and I completely understand the frustration. Reading these posts does make me feel I'm not alone.

I had a similar experience after having a profractional and micro laser peel to try to correct sun damage and acne scars. I'm fair, blonde, and I also have rosecea. I don't know what setting were used for the profractional laser, but I bled a lot, and my face was very swollen and distended under my eyes for several days. Of course, once all the dead skin peeled off and the swelling subsidized, i thought my skin looked okay, although I didn't see any improvement with the scars and the brown spots were still visible- I was hopeful the improvements would come in time. The laser treatment took off most of my eyebrows, some hair around my hairline, and removed all the fine blonde callous hairs on my face, which I accepted as a price to pay for the treatment. My problems started when the hair started growing back. About two months after my treatment, as fine blonde hair started growing back on my forehead, I started getting dry, crusty flakes around my hairline. My doctor had told me I could resume use of topical a after a month, so I tried a little (compounded hydroquinone and retinal) at two months, thinking the flakes were because my skin wasn't exfoliating properly. Big mistake. My face absolutely erupted. My forehead was covered in angry, inflamed, crusty bumps, kind of like a rash. My skin skin flaked off constantly. I saw my doctors partner when she was out of town, was prescribed steroid cream, antibiotics and finacea. At my follow up visit, my docitor put me on oral steroids and soolantra, did not address the role the laser may have played in triggering this outbreak, and curtly told me I needed to go in accutane because my rosecea is so bad (although she has never specifically treated me for this in the years I have been going to her.) I have been babying my skin, and it is finally healing, but I have more scars now than when I went in for the laser (plus, the awful fractional laser Orange peel texture and micro dots.) The skin under my eyes, where I swelled so terribly, is loose, awful bags. I feel I have aged 10 years in just a few months. The only bright side is I haven't had so much as a blemish since I started on the finances. I have a follow up this week. I'm not going to take the accurate. I don't know how I will ever correct the damage from my laser treatment, but I certainly am not going to do any lasers again.