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A Review I Wish I'd Read Prior Going

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A Review I Wish I'd Read Prior Going

SnowPea77
I am always open to test new treatments and when my clinic got this machine I was curious to see what it has that is superior to clear and brilliant that I normally get. I looked for reviews and recovery photos for reference beforehand but failed to find anything other than clinics promo shots of amazing results or then treatments gone totally wrong with horrible burns. Nothing inbetween. I am doing this review as an effort to keep it real. I am not horribly disfigured and I'm sure it will be sweet in couple weeks, but I had pretty interesting side effects. Day 3 onwards I got pretty severe acne, especially in my T-zone and chin and actually took some prescription medicine in an effort to maintain my normal life routine as I had to return to work 5 days later. Not sure what my colleagues made of it all as on top of the acne a mean grid appeared on my skin which I pretty unsuccessfully tried to hide with mountains of make up caked on. Its day 11 now and while the acne has slowly subsided I still have the grid visible on a few parts of my face - most notably the forehead but also elsewhere. I am an optimist and think it'll go in time, or my next C&B would make it go. But just a consideration for you - this may be more downtime with side effects that you won't expect. It really took me almost 10 days I wish I didnt have to be in public and strong medicine. I hope theres some long term benefit to be had from going though this.

Replies (2)

January 6, 2022
Dear, you must have noticed by now that this ACNE reaction in Palomar Starlux 1540 is pretty common, in particular for people that had acne in their teenage years. It goes away, I have had Lux 1540 done like 10 times since 2010, acne goes away and marks clear up in the months to me because of the whole process of skin regenerating and improving. Hope this happened in your case :).
January 6, 2024
I am so confused. What treatment did you do? I can't read it anywhere on your post.