MIcroneedling Side Affects!!! BE AWARE!!!

What do you mean by you read thyroids cause it? Cause what?

I had the same awful microneedling experience with just one treatment in January this year to close up some large pores on my cheek. The treatment did. The treatment did not include PRP. My once youthful looking smooth skin for late 40's now reveals more lines on my forehead, more lines and larger pores all over my face, more wrinkles around my eyes along with lax skin around eyes and cheeks. It's a nightmare seeing the damage done and having my dermatologist deny any connection despite this all happening after the dermapen procedure. I have been emotionally affected as well feeling sick to my stomach looking at these changes on my face everyday wishing I left well enough alone. I was given no warning signs at all and my dermatologist doesn't believe it's related. This procedure is given more credit for improving skin than it should.

Fractional laser,btw, is basically the same as microneedling! The laser BURNS columns in your skin to try and stimulate collegen production thru heat. If not done correctly or if done too deep it too can and will destroy your skin

I wish you luck, but you know, results aren't overnight, and it's not unusual to get worse before it gets better. Anyway, good luck!

It's a waste of time and hard-earned money. I had six sessions (two master estheticians) from February through August of this year, and I have seen ZERO results. Lasering and dermal fillers are the only way to go if you can find a dr. who really knows both.

Your pics don't show your forehead. I see the lower 2/3rds of your face. Just remember that your face doesn't instantly form new collagen. It takes time.

There is nothing wrong with you.

You didn't specify, was it the micro pen or roller. This photo doesn't show anything

You look great! I cant wait to get my first treatment!

Thanks, I've just read it. Dr Lance Setterfield is an expert on microneedling, and he is basically positive about the process, but of course one must use the right tools and not have an underlying health condition/medication that undermines the process.

One thing he doesn't mention, but which professionals using single needling/dry needling only in lines and acne scars do point out:

Deep wrinkles and acne scars could look worse because the process is *working* if you use overall rolling/stamping instead of focusing on the indentation. Imagine a cheek with deep acne scars, being rolled all over. Clearly, the indentations may receive less needling than the surrounding healthy cheek. The latter will then build some new collagen, have slightly thicker skin. So how is the indentation going to look? Worse!

JBarrios, you've had a bad experience, but can you tell us whether only your lines were treated, to just build them, or the whole face?

I've been using microneedling for 5 years now, every time a perioral line appears or the nasolabial and perioral lines become too deep, but I treat *only* the wrinkles/indentations most of the time, with whole cheek far less often. Most of my little perioral lines, forehead lines and bunny lines treated individually with single needles, disappeared. I just have one 'deep dent' around one perioral line that is taking longer but also shallower through plenty of needling. Plus with age new little lines keep forming and need needling. But the process, done properly, can work.

Hi, is the microneedling done with the pen/device or a dermaroller/dermastamp?