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Taking a Lot More Sessions Than I'd Anticipated or Budgeted For! - Esher, GB
UPDATED FROM reholden77
10 months post
After 6 Treatments this is what I'm left with....
$3,500
The pictures sum it up! I'm not happy. The fading is there but look at the hideous marks I'm left with. I have lost all faith in this method of tattoo removal. I was told when I went for the initial consultation that some tattoos lift after just 3 treatments, but more likely 5 treatments would do it. I've just had my 7th treatment and will eagerly await the results but I don't hold out much hope. I have left around 6-8 weeks between treatments and see comments about the continued fading after this time. I am determined to get rid of these things but when I asked the technician at Trueskin to show me some before and after photos of someone who had actually successfully removed their entire tattoo, I was told they couldn't show me due to data protection! I don't believe anyone has properly lifted a tattoo off their skin from Picosure. I really hope to prove myself wrong! I've heard great things about Wayne in Soho - so I'll continue the treatment process through him and see if he can work his magic on getting rid of these hideous things!!!!!
UPDATED FROM reholden77
9 months post
4 weeks Post 6th Picosure Treatment - really losing the will to carry on as it's just not shifting !
Esher Medispa gave me a free treatment for treatment number 6 - I feel so disheartened as STILL very visible. I am yet to actually see anyone on here post a before and after where their tattoo has completely gone using Picosure. I am sure all those images of before and after used to market Picosure are fakes. I really hope I'm proven wrong but I'm getting down about the fact I've now got two really ugly ink splodges on my tummy and lower back. I've had to buy a swimsuit to see me through the Summer, having worked so hard to get back in shape after my second son I will stay covered up. I am going to continue as what I'm left with now is worse than the original tattoos... Has anyone got a real success story - before and after where you can see genuine photos of a tattoo that has totally gone from Picosure? Cannot show pictures from my back as noone available to take them at the moment but will post soon. The front is making more progress than my back tattoo but even so neither are what I expected at this stage....
Replies (2)
June 3, 2014
It is very disappointimng when you put this much time and money into a pianful procedure and don't get the results you are hoping for. Hang in there! How much time are you waiting between treatments?
July 18, 2014
This last time I waited 9 weeks between treatments... Still not getting anywhere near the fading I wanted. Now I'm wondering if it's something to do with the fact I've had chemotherapy (2 years ago though). Has anyone else had Chemo, then had Picosure BUT had results? Maybe my body can't take it!!!
July 19, 2014
That's a very good question reholden77 - you can always ask a doctor on the site and see what they have to say regarding chemotherapy and laser treatment.
June 6, 2014
Hi, were you given any advice to wait a while post c-section? The pigment removal relies on immune system which would already be heavily taxed after a 9 month pregnancy and c-section so may make the process slower.
July 18, 2014
hi - I had told the technician at Trueskin in Esher that I was 3 weeks post c section (and just under 2 years prior to that I'd undergone major surgery and 6 months chemo for colon cancer). She told me it would be absolutely fine to proceed. I did question it, because I said my immune system had taken a battering but I was fit and healthy at that time (and still am).
UPDATED FROM reholden77
8 months post
PAIN
I can honestly say picosure is the most painful experience of my life!!! I use Elma cream first to try and numb the area and also have the cooling air. The one on my back is far more painful than the one on my stomach (nerve endings/bone etc). I have to shove a cotton wool pad in my mouth to bite on it's that bad and I've got a very high pain threshold. Having them put on was painfree in comparison !! That said it is over so quickly you just learn to tolerate it. I'm sure different parts of bodies dictate how painful it will be. Think of someone putting a cigarette onto your skin... !!! I read all these articles saying picosure is pain free and I'm thinking - really, have the people who wrote these actually had it!??? clearly not !
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