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Searching for Solutions -Hopelessly Burnt from IPL - Newark, DE
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It has been 1.5 yrs since my one and only session...
IPLsurvivorJuly 10, 2015
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It has been 1.5 yrs since my one and only session of extremely aggressive IPL which left me burnt.
I was told it would help me with the dark spots near my ear and overall skin health. Don forget improve wrinkles. LOL
I know my case is hopeless but I post this for others so they can see this and steer clear of IPL.
I plan to write a lot more later.
Considering a lift and or FT.
Advice is welcome.
Texture, fat loss, burnt creases,dents, divets, scraps Etc...
This has been a devastating experience.
IPL is NOT safe.
Laser and IPL destroy lives:)
Sorry my pictures are horrific but I want the world to see what destruction IPL can cause.
I was told it would help me with the dark spots near my ear and overall skin health. Don forget improve wrinkles. LOL
I know my case is hopeless but I post this for others so they can see this and steer clear of IPL.
I plan to write a lot more later.
Considering a lift and or FT.
Advice is welcome.
Texture, fat loss, burnt creases,dents, divets, scraps Etc...
This has been a devastating experience.
IPL is NOT safe.
Laser and IPL destroy lives:)
Sorry my pictures are horrific but I want the world to see what destruction IPL can cause.
UPDATED FROM IPLsurvivor
1 year post
Things I Have Tried
IPLsurvivorJuly 23, 2015
Possible solutions all are risky-----------------------------/---------
Zinc oxide helped with burning along with cold compresses when it first happened. Helped
Juvederm ultra plus one syringe -helped, but had tooth pain that went away, juve did not last as long as I hoped. Definitely needed more.
Accutane at five mg a day for twenty seven days -cleared right back cheek-less damage area -had to stop due to intestine pain,a kidney stone, severe dehydration,back pain and hair thinning, stop after it left my system.
Dermarollering, derma planning, Retina A, and LED- aggravated skin texture.
Microderm and Lactic acid 20% = no change
Weight gain- forty lbs mildly helped the less damaged areas
Second try on accutane, five mg with lots of liquids and skip days if side affects occur.......currently on day twenty.
Time helped reduce redness but as redness left fat loss and burn creases showed.
Lotions helped keep skin from drying out but not with changes to skin.
Aloe plant helps mildly.
Honey and oil =no change
Advice from real selfers -definitely helped
Avoid mirrors with bright lights- helps emotionally.
Prayers and hugs to get through each day. Definitely helped.
Zinc oxide helped with burning along with cold compresses when it first happened. Helped
Juvederm ultra plus one syringe -helped, but had tooth pain that went away, juve did not last as long as I hoped. Definitely needed more.
Accutane at five mg a day for twenty seven days -cleared right back cheek-less damage area -had to stop due to intestine pain,a kidney stone, severe dehydration,back pain and hair thinning, stop after it left my system.
Dermarollering, derma planning, Retina A, and LED- aggravated skin texture.
Microderm and Lactic acid 20% = no change
Weight gain- forty lbs mildly helped the less damaged areas
Second try on accutane, five mg with lots of liquids and skip days if side affects occur.......currently on day twenty.
Time helped reduce redness but as redness left fat loss and burn creases showed.
Lotions helped keep skin from drying out but not with changes to skin.
Aloe plant helps mildly.
Honey and oil =no change
Advice from real selfers -definitely helped
Avoid mirrors with bright lights- helps emotionally.
Prayers and hugs to get through each day. Definitely helped.
Replies (5)
July 24, 2015
July 29, 2015
This is my second comment to you, so sorry. Maybe you can try taking supplements such as Vitamin E, CoQ10, royal jelly, and any that help heal, nourigh and regenerate your skin cells. MSM and Biotin can help too because they are building blocks to hair, nails and skin. You are still pretty, specially inside and for being so courageous and warn others about the danger, you are a beautiful being, and you too shall be helped, be patient. Lots of love.
July 29, 2015
Thanks leopard. Trying so fix texture as much possible before address fat and lift.
I had been taking biotin and c. I can add e too.
I waiting til after accutane now bc it so hard on the liver to clean all the stuff with vitamin a drowning it. I heard zinc too, but it is a metal and My poor liver can only do one thing right now.
I had been taking biotin and c. I can add e too.
I waiting til after accutane now bc it so hard on the liver to clean all the stuff with vitamin a drowning it. I heard zinc too, but it is a metal and My poor liver can only do one thing right now.
July 29, 2015
Trying so hard to fix my texture as much as possible before addressing FT and lift.
Iam waiting fate accutane bc it is so hard on the liver.
Iam waiting fate accutane bc it is so hard on the liver.
July 29, 2015
I was on Accutane and I'm still dealing with hair loss. What did you use to rid it from your system? Sorry to hear you are going through this.
July 29, 2015
I am on very low dose five mg every day or every other day. I stop and take break if I feel things are getting out of hand.
I am trying to stick with it bc the quality of life is low since the ipl damage.
Also I would get a blood test for liver, gall bladder, pancreas,and kidney to make sure that are functioning okay. This creates hair loss.
I read lot about this scary crap about accutane. Eat healthy of course, I heard colonic / enamas and bowel preps. Clean your colon out. Also your hair may just be dry so no washing it but only use conditoner. Rogan. Just stuff I read. Good luck.
I am trying to stick with it bc the quality of life is low since the ipl damage.
Also I would get a blood test for liver, gall bladder, pancreas,and kidney to make sure that are functioning okay. This creates hair loss.
I read lot about this scary crap about accutane. Eat healthy of course, I heard colonic / enamas and bowel preps. Clean your colon out. Also your hair may just be dry so no washing it but only use conditoner. Rogan. Just stuff I read. Good luck.
July 29, 2015
Just read your review. 100 mg wow! Irresponsible doctor.
It is gonna take time since you we're taking such a high dose.
But I think once it is out system you will be fine. Eat lots of veggie , but keep away from things with vitamin -a.
It is gonna take time since you we're taking such a high dose.
But I think once it is out system you will be fine. Eat lots of veggie , but keep away from things with vitamin -a.
June 11, 2016
Try increasing your healthy fat in your diet..coconut oil is really good for your skin. Blend it into your coffee and you will barely taste it. I had fat loss from rf and I am doing topical emu, avacado, macadamia, argan oils...they can increase blood flow, decrease inflammation without side effects of accutane and thicken the skin. The fats in skin oil are actually absorbed into the skin. Leave anything with parabens alone and try to get off glutin. The redness should decrease and your skin will thicken in a good way. Most topical oils are naturally antimicrobial so hopefully you will have less acne. Research the oils for yourself. They make my skin feel like a babys. Fat grafting may be an option as well or prp..I am looking into that.
April 17, 2017
I know this is an old post. I am so heartbroken for you, for me and the rest of us damaged by laser. I hope there is some miracle cream that will treat all the damage done. I am currently healing myself from the laser damage on my skin - hypo,hyper, crepey skin, volume loss, lines, pinholes and orange peel skin damage. Hope your skin has great improved my now.
UPDATED FROM IPLsurvivor
1 year post
IPL creates vampires. Vampires can cry.
IPLsurvivorJuly 23, 2015
IPL Torture From Crispy critter to vampire
I was a normal plain and well adjusted person. At least I think I was. A mother, wife and daughter who loved her family very much. Very outgoing, sometimes a little too loud and silly, always trying to fit a little more to her day. The day was not long enough. Love the morning sunshine. I use to tire my two year old daughter out when we played on the playground. Lots of energy. Never really did too much beauty stuff, never had time for it. No makeup unless I had family photos.
This is how one session with pearl cutrea IPL laser on December 13, 2013 turned me into crispy critter for seven months and then to a vampire. I should of known if was Friday the thirteenth Yes a vampire. A Vampire is only creatures that seems to live like this . IPL vampire.True story without a happy ending, sorry everyone. If you are reading this I am sorry if you were hurt in the same way I was, it truly is a form cruel torture. You might want to skip up to solutions, if not interested in my story.
I do want to look mirrors, bright daylight, can not be sun without burning to crisp, prefer to be in the dark, do not sleep through night or have nightmares. I found no enjoy in anything as if my soul were suck out through my skins. I go through the motion of living for my family's sakes. Much like Jim Henson's Dark Crystal. Science fiction? I think not.
It just takes an over aggressive treatment, wrong setting, too close to the skin, and or too many passes to change a perfectly happy person into living dead. You are alive but do want to be, you feel dead inside. If you are reading this my guess you are hurt too.
Yes vampires can cry rivers of tears. For first couple of months,tears that will never run out , just pure exhaustion is the only thing that stops them.
So sorry......
I plan on posting everything that I try to let others know what works and what does not.
Keep busy. Keep hope. Keep trying to live.
Hope for healing is why I keep trying....
It is hard to have hope when you are stuck in a permanent situation with no solution.
So I will tell you some of my sad horror story.
I went to my derm and told her I was concerned about the discoloration (small sun or age spots) on my lower arms and side of my face. She told me to go down stairs to see aestecitian in the cosmetic surgery department. My aestecian told me about laser genis with pearl cutrea and microderm for me. I told I would improved the overall health of my skin, rejuvenate it like facial. I explained that I could not handle anything traumatic, I had two year old and I did not want that was risky. There was virtually no risk it was noninvasive. She said she would on entire face to help with wrinkles and even tone the coloring,
Two weeks -had a tan
Third notice lines comb marks and lines ( laser stripping)
Three weeks- crinkle burns lower front right cheek and red micro holes appeared all over my skin
Burning occurred for two months
Two months I noticed scratch, dents and fine linear lines
Four months still red and burning with a small scab on my left check and very pitted sinus area
Six months some very small strip skin near the edges of my face came off seemed healed barring minor microscopic holes and rest remain as it was.
Seven months before the redness subsided for me too see what I was left with was orange texture on my entire face
Fast forward one year later orange peel skin, crappy smile, deep pores in my sinus area and orange peel skin on forehead little more shallow. Sunken cheeks, weird lines and perpetrated face,
My iPad does not capture the texture to its true horror.
Added info......
IPL damage can cause
Fat loss , I do not care what medical people say, there are many people on real self that can testify to this
Wrinkle
Microholes
scratches up and down the face
Nerve damage
Burns, which I was told was impossibility by the place messed my face up.
I was a normal plain and well adjusted person. At least I think I was. A mother, wife and daughter who loved her family very much. Very outgoing, sometimes a little too loud and silly, always trying to fit a little more to her day. The day was not long enough. Love the morning sunshine. I use to tire my two year old daughter out when we played on the playground. Lots of energy. Never really did too much beauty stuff, never had time for it. No makeup unless I had family photos.
This is how one session with pearl cutrea IPL laser on December 13, 2013 turned me into crispy critter for seven months and then to a vampire. I should of known if was Friday the thirteenth Yes a vampire. A Vampire is only creatures that seems to live like this . IPL vampire.True story without a happy ending, sorry everyone. If you are reading this I am sorry if you were hurt in the same way I was, it truly is a form cruel torture. You might want to skip up to solutions, if not interested in my story.
I do want to look mirrors, bright daylight, can not be sun without burning to crisp, prefer to be in the dark, do not sleep through night or have nightmares. I found no enjoy in anything as if my soul were suck out through my skins. I go through the motion of living for my family's sakes. Much like Jim Henson's Dark Crystal. Science fiction? I think not.
It just takes an over aggressive treatment, wrong setting, too close to the skin, and or too many passes to change a perfectly happy person into living dead. You are alive but do want to be, you feel dead inside. If you are reading this my guess you are hurt too.
Yes vampires can cry rivers of tears. For first couple of months,tears that will never run out , just pure exhaustion is the only thing that stops them.
So sorry......
I plan on posting everything that I try to let others know what works and what does not.
Keep busy. Keep hope. Keep trying to live.
Hope for healing is why I keep trying....
It is hard to have hope when you are stuck in a permanent situation with no solution.
So I will tell you some of my sad horror story.
I went to my derm and told her I was concerned about the discoloration (small sun or age spots) on my lower arms and side of my face. She told me to go down stairs to see aestecitian in the cosmetic surgery department. My aestecian told me about laser genis with pearl cutrea and microderm for me. I told I would improved the overall health of my skin, rejuvenate it like facial. I explained that I could not handle anything traumatic, I had two year old and I did not want that was risky. There was virtually no risk it was noninvasive. She said she would on entire face to help with wrinkles and even tone the coloring,
Two weeks -had a tan
Third notice lines comb marks and lines ( laser stripping)
Three weeks- crinkle burns lower front right cheek and red micro holes appeared all over my skin
Burning occurred for two months
Two months I noticed scratch, dents and fine linear lines
Four months still red and burning with a small scab on my left check and very pitted sinus area
Six months some very small strip skin near the edges of my face came off seemed healed barring minor microscopic holes and rest remain as it was.
Seven months before the redness subsided for me too see what I was left with was orange texture on my entire face
Fast forward one year later orange peel skin, crappy smile, deep pores in my sinus area and orange peel skin on forehead little more shallow. Sunken cheeks, weird lines and perpetrated face,
My iPad does not capture the texture to its true horror.
Added info......
IPL damage can cause
Fat loss , I do not care what medical people say, there are many people on real self that can testify to this
Wrinkle
Microholes
scratches up and down the face
Nerve damage
Burns, which I was told was impossibility by the place messed my face up.
Replies (5)
July 23, 2015
Sounds like you had laser genesis not ipl. I had fraxel restore and have the same damage. I know the vampire life. You sound a lot like me.
July 24, 2015
Could be?......there have benne lots lie and covering up at the place that hurt me. Especially with their paperwork during the investigation.
July 23, 2015
I'm so sorry for your problems! I had similar issues caused by a chemical peel that burned off the top layer of dermis and I never regained the same level of elasticity in my face again (crepe paper skin, etc).
However, a new doctor recommended IPL to fix my issues, and it actually helped. I've now gone to a couple of doctors for additional IPL pick-me-ups once a year or so. And use costly cream that seems to keep my skin looking decent at 54.
I think there are different kinds of IPL (latest doc uses cool touch, this cold tip that cools the skin immediately after it zaps you). I did have one spot that burned too hard one time and it did leave a scar-like indentation. Perhaps the trick is keeping the setting low until you see what your skin can handle. I don't know...again, sorry for your problems. I've learned to go to doctors (dermatologists) and stop dealing with medical spas.
However, a new doctor recommended IPL to fix my issues, and it actually helped. I've now gone to a couple of doctors for additional IPL pick-me-ups once a year or so. And use costly cream that seems to keep my skin looking decent at 54.
I think there are different kinds of IPL (latest doc uses cool touch, this cold tip that cools the skin immediately after it zaps you). I did have one spot that burned too hard one time and it did leave a scar-like indentation. Perhaps the trick is keeping the setting low until you see what your skin can handle. I don't know...again, sorry for your problems. I've learned to go to doctors (dermatologists) and stop dealing with medical spas.
July 24, 2015
I wish you luck. I would be worried about anything that generates heat. I did not know that peels could do that too. Sorry too many typos.
August 3, 2015
I had the V-Beam with cool touch done and I had similar like effects as Ttegdapnej. I notice though that after showering my skin looks better but then reverts back.
August 3, 2015
Believe it or not, mine does that too, even though my damage seems more severe. I have seen your pictures. I do believe time Is gonna help you.
October 1, 2015
Going to an MD is no guarantee. Read my Review of IPL. I had a plastic surgeon do mine personally, and it was a horror show. My skin has never been the same. One IPL tx seems to have set off some degenerative inflammatory process that doesn't ever stop. Sometimes it looks a little better, sometimes worse. I think that bottom line, the technology is not ready for widespread use yet, and/or people, even MDs, get too casual about it. I've read medical books stating that The "therapeutic window" in IPL is extremely narrow - this means that you could have the perfect setting, but with just a hair's difference in anyone variable - pulse, temperature, or wave length, and bam, you get burns, atrophic scarring, etc. It's very tricky, but people act like it's goof-proof. With mine, I got 2 passes in the same tx, one for redness, and one for pigment. I remember it feeling uncomfortably hot and painful, and I remember the doctor, when adjusting the setting at the beginning, say, Hmm, you're very fair, then she adjusted a setting and off she went, zapping my face. I think she eyeballed my skin type and misjudged that I was a lighter Fitzpatrick type than I really am, since I only look fair because I am religious about ss use, her settings were not quite cool enough, and she never should've done 2 passes in one sitting. If I only knew then what I know now. It was presented to me as "no risk," "no down time lunch-time procedure" with no side effects other than slight pinkness for a day. HA!!!! WHAT LIES.
July 29, 2015
I am sickened by your horrible after effects of this ---I will keep you in my prayers. A ton of thanks to you for alerting those of us who may have considered this treatment. God bless you always.
August 4, 2015
I can only imagine---my heart is so heavy for you. I just want to cry with you. You have done such a courageous thing, to inform us and warn us, of this treatment. Please let us know if you find any remedy . God bless!
August 4, 2015
I'm so sorry. Bless you for telling your story, it's really helped me make the decision. I went to a dermatologist last month for what I thought might be the beginning of rosacea. The doctor told me it's telangiectasia. I have it all over my face except for my forehead. It's not really bad at this point. I just don't want it to get worse. She advised IPL. Knowing what I know now from your experience and others I've read on the internet, I've decided not to go that route. In doing research I've found so many singing praises of the procedure, showing before and after pictures, advising it always be done by someone skilled. But at the heart of it, it doesn't mean even the most degreed and certified practitioner can make mistakes, and equipment can malfunction. From this point on, the only hands treating my skin are my own. I keep you in my prayers. Big hug.
August 4, 2015
Glad I could save at least one person from this.
You are beautiful the way you are so why put yourself through this. Just use gentle creams.
You are beautiful the way you are so why put yourself through this. Just use gentle creams.
October 5, 2015
I have been damaged by BBL treatment to face all the same as Ttegdapnenj but I have treatment head marks in my face as well don by Plastic surgeon in Sydney Australia and she wont even help me at all just says BBL did not cause this
October 5, 2015
They all say the same thing when it comes to lasers. They either blame it on ageing, rosacea, or they pretend they don't see any damage. When the reality is lasers do cause fat loss, they do cause hyperpigmentation, hypopigmentation, texture changes that include wrinkling, scarring, uneven skin tone, etc....I'm almost two years into my damage and I regret getting v-beam done every single day. I should have been happy with the face I had and now I'm left to deal with this on my own.
October 5, 2015
I have also given a bad review for this doctor on this site but it isn't shown on her review section they are deleting the bad reviews so others cannot be warned this would be against some law surely
October 5, 2015
Hi Deedle,
Your review is not deleted; it's posted here: https://www.realself.com/review/potts-point-sydney-ipl-remove-brown-spots
Your review is also listed on the doctor's profile page.
All opinions, whether positive or negative, are welcome on RealSelf. We don't remove anything unless it violates the Community Guidelines.
I hope this helps to address your concerns. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Replies (5)
I saw some of your holes which are similar to mine near your nose.
Be gentle. I tried to exfoliate too soon. At seven months I was still healing.
I pray you are right about three years, but I am was seriously hurt by ipl experience. I feel my case is hopeless but I keep trying.
Tried retina a made things worse.
Only gentle moisturizers, now
Led , lactic peel, microderm had no improvement.
Dermarolling aggravated it.
TCA and derm pen are my next step.
TCA -Especially since you said it did not hurt you.
I feel I have to try fixing texture before addressing fat loss with some thing more drastic.
Juve ultra plus helped, have not post pictures of that. Did that on May 21st
I did use Accutane for 27 days in March. 5mg daily.
Cleared an area near my lower right back cheeks, got sick from it
Had to stop.
Trying again, one time a day every three days five mg.
low dose according Wayne on fraxel..surprised is all that is needed for improvement. He did a lot of research. Mikka also say she trying again she got sick but was seeing improvement. Unfortunately accutane is a very dangerous chemical.
Again thanks!!!
Dr Brandow has been only one to help me. PS in Philly. Still trying to find one closer by.
They either told me that they would not or could not help me. Derms told me give up, it is permanent and it will only get worse.
One told me it was natural aging, in 1.5 yrs I look older than my mother with unexplainable weird skin.
A few derms and PS offered to under the damage with a deeper penetrating lasers. Sorry but I have been to so many consults and they are so disappointing. So I have to be own doc. Spent tons of money on lotions with no results.
$$$$$$$$$ and time.
So I do what others on RS have done to improve.
I will do.......
Dermapens Peels,lift,fillers, FT and accutane.
I just trying improve it.
No derm will help. There is of derms and ps tha will help laser damage person, especially in my area.
Research as much as I could.
My primary doc helped me deal with the side effects after a long lecture. I think she pities me.
Help. But accutane has been black box by FDA where as laser go on their merry way.
Improvement will notice.
But idk ice pick scaring and extreme fat loss that I have near my nose.
It is definitely not making it worse reagarding skin texture.
Could help you? I think.
The reason I have not posted much more, is bc I am seriously traumatized. I hope I can share my story, with everyone later.
I never plan to get a lift and Ft, peels. A year ago I knew nothing about this stuff. I laid in agony for two months after IPL while my calls to the place that hurt me was ignored, until I brought state regulation board and wrote the CEO to investigate. I could go onbut .... Sigh
I just want solutions to put myself back together so I am some what human again. Thanks.
Some areas of my skin are similar to yours.
I am on accutane right now.
I let you all know if anything helps or works.
Thanks for your support.
Become familiar. With what can go wrong. Read and talk to them iamsorrynow2,
Cveroleyva , k2014, ect... Linda I am taking break. Unless you have this kind of damage, and or you have corrected this type of damage, I do not think you understand. Please read real selfer istotretinoin blogs. It was Pearl cutrea that hurt me. Please learn from their experiences. If you have a solution I think everyone on real self would like to know what it is. If not, just stop.