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30 Year Old - One Infini Treatment After 3 Picosure - Acne Scars - Was This a Mistake. Philadelphia, PA
UPDATED FROM nizera7
3 months post
i can see the light and the end of the tunnel..
nizera7April 25, 2016
$1,600
Since my last update, I let my derm convince me to go pack to light picosure treatment, once a month. I had 2 sessions and they have made a huge impack on the pigmentation which is almost gone. Right now I am struggling with the sun damaging my skin which is very sensitive now and still healing.
The scars are improving, I still feel like i have razor cuts all over, but I'm being patient now that I can see some improvement!
I'm getting married in 5 months... there is still time to fix this!! Fingers crossed!
The scars are improving, I still feel like i have razor cuts all over, but I'm being patient now that I can see some improvement!
I'm getting married in 5 months... there is still time to fix this!! Fingers crossed!
Replies (5)
June 24, 2016
I hope you have seen a vast improvement by now. We don't all heal at the same rate, so I'm truly hoping you will wind up with a perfect result after all you've gone through. All best on your upcoming wedding!!
July 7, 2016
You might want to try organic aloe vera plant to your skin.This will help with the inflammation and texture. Start taking Biocell collagen and Gotu Kola suppl;ements every day,along with Vit C ( 5,000 mg) these will boost tissue repair and help with collagen .
July 7, 2016
And IF YOU DO GO OUT IN THE SUN WEAR A MINERAL NOT A CHEMICAL SUNBLOCK WITH A HAT!!
July 8, 2016
I was just told after a laser treatment to use Aloe Vesta I just bought some on Jet for 12.00. Hope it comes soon. Never used Jet.com before
August 4, 2016
much much MUCH better - ooooh i'm so iffy about lasers because they seem to work wonders for some and other times the opposite. I just whipped up a new batch of miracle serum (hah) filtered water/hyaluronic acid/ vitamin C - you can order all online amazon.com for super cheap compared to the nonsense you get already made, especially since most vitamin c serums out there have oxidized by the time they are sold to you - just keep in fridge and apply every morning and night - also i have SUUUUUUUPER sensitive skin especially when it comes to sunscreen and i have spent loads of money trying countless brands from cheap to top shelf expensive and the very BEST i have found is middle of the road cost ($30 for HUGE bottle) Elta MD spf 45 - no clogging, no oily, no lasting pasty-ness (looks white for about 15 seconds) and best of all absolutely NO burning even if you get it in your eyes - good luck girl :) and congrats!!
UPDATED FROM nizera7
2 months post
End of week 6
nizera7March 9, 2016
small improvement of discoloration. texture still pretty bad...
Replies (5)
March 17, 2016
I'd be freaked out. Thank you for doing updates. However, as long as there is red, I think you will see healing and fading. The texture though-I have no idea how that would happen. So sorry.
March 18, 2016
You really had a bad reaction!!!! Normally after 10 days ( the most you should be ok) and normally you start to see the difference later. i am very sorry but perhaps you have to be patient and IT WILL GET BETTER!!!! Hopefully you will be fine and even better than before but it is like this: some treatment work very well for some people and for others it does not.
I had a vampire treatment many years ago at a very well known Beauty Institute and I could not even get out of my house for three weeks , looke like I hand been punched by a boxer while my best freind went out the same night.
I wish you good luck, be patient you will get better and then youwill have to try other things. Try later the transformations system of OBAGI. Its a combination of cream and if it does not work for you, you stop but you have nothing to loose.
I had a vampire treatment many years ago at a very well known Beauty Institute and I could not even get out of my house for three weeks , looke like I hand been punched by a boxer while my best freind went out the same night.
I wish you good luck, be patient you will get better and then youwill have to try other things. Try later the transformations system of OBAGI. Its a combination of cream and if it does not work for you, you stop but you have nothing to loose.
April 15, 2016
Yes.. I love the Obaji skin care products too and they now have a new "Z" line.. Keep us posted!!!
April 15, 2016
Wow.. My friends have had the Vampire Treatment too several times with a little down time but I decided to try the Infini micro-needling fir more lasting results.. I was assured only 48 hrs down time.. Nooooo.., I had an abnormal reaction but am now post op 9 days and healing really well! I thank all the members here for recommendations which my provider never mentioned or offered any post op treatment plan.. I thank you all! I'm wishing you some better results soon and look at the Obaji line and I would avoid any lasers too at this point!! Hugs!!
April 3, 2016
Thank you for sharing your story. Keep us posted. Such a shame that you have choosen the wrong treatment.
I feel so sorry about that. That was quite a swelling you had! and the grid marks, never seen anything like it!
I also have a scar problem, specifically stretch marks, and chose the recosma laser treatment. It took a while to remove them but I'm absolutely happy with the result, had no side effects. My breast stretch marks are gone, my belly is next. I wish those grid marks heal and you get your healthy look back!
I feel so sorry about that. That was quite a swelling you had! and the grid marks, never seen anything like it!
I also have a scar problem, specifically stretch marks, and chose the recosma laser treatment. It took a while to remove them but I'm absolutely happy with the result, had no side effects. My breast stretch marks are gone, my belly is next. I wish those grid marks heal and you get your healthy look back!
April 9, 2016
where did you have the recosma done? we don't have it in the US yet but I heard it gives great results. how many treatments did you have? I wish it was here. I don't know why it's taking so long since most lasers seem to do more bad than good.
April 6, 2016
I really feel your pain. I have spent so much money on lasers only to make my skin worse. Now my acne scars are really bad and all I think about is why did I ever do such thing to myself
April 15, 2016
The settings were probably too high and it's burnt you. As someone recovering from botched laser resurfacing, they will never admit they messed it up.. hope you heal soon. I think vbeam can speed up the scar healing process if these are scars
UPDATED FROM nizera7
1 month post
Found pre-infini pictures
nizera7February 28, 2016
Hi,
After being asked about pre-treatment pictures, I found those.
Hard to tell where the scars were (which is why I'm even more upset I let myself be convinced to do this). Look at the dark rounds.
Now keep in mind, this was "post-picosure" which is a laser treatment but more gentle. This treatment gave me a temporary skin tightening effect which made the scars almost disappear put only for a few days (till the tightening resumed). Looking back I should not have listened to the derm. stick to picosure for a couple more sessions...
Also, got some messages about seeing my doctor. I am seeing my doctor every 2 weeks. She is at a loss as far as why I am reacting the way I am and suggesting an other pico session to speed up recovery. Treating laser damage with an other laser AGAIN scares me but this seems to be the consensus among professionals! Not decided on this yet.
I hope this feed allows other people thinking about doing this treatment to reconsider, especially if you know your skin does not heal well. It's not worth it.
My personal opinion is that this treatment is maybe good for those with no skin issues that are looking for tightening.
I was trying to completely get rid of a couple of scars that were fairly discreet and look at where I am now..
After being asked about pre-treatment pictures, I found those.
Hard to tell where the scars were (which is why I'm even more upset I let myself be convinced to do this). Look at the dark rounds.
Now keep in mind, this was "post-picosure" which is a laser treatment but more gentle. This treatment gave me a temporary skin tightening effect which made the scars almost disappear put only for a few days (till the tightening resumed). Looking back I should not have listened to the derm. stick to picosure for a couple more sessions...
Also, got some messages about seeing my doctor. I am seeing my doctor every 2 weeks. She is at a loss as far as why I am reacting the way I am and suggesting an other pico session to speed up recovery. Treating laser damage with an other laser AGAIN scares me but this seems to be the consensus among professionals! Not decided on this yet.
I hope this feed allows other people thinking about doing this treatment to reconsider, especially if you know your skin does not heal well. It's not worth it.
My personal opinion is that this treatment is maybe good for those with no skin issues that are looking for tightening.
I was trying to completely get rid of a couple of scars that were fairly discreet and look at where I am now..
Replies (2)
February 28, 2016
It seems to me when I'm looking at your very first Before photos and now that you actually do have some improvement in places/mid-cheek and near jawline, just overshadowed by the severity of your reaction. My grid marks - near same location as yours - were not as deep as yours but they still took close to 2 months to completely go away. Has your doc mentioned any LED treatments? After my 2nd session I received green LED right afterwards, then another a week later. Don't know if that's what sped up the healing process so quickly compared to first or just my system knew better how to handle it but I definitely did much better. Maybe your practitioner can prescribe some of these. Hope you've found a good for you to get safe moisture into your healing skin. I used homemade spray bottle of 1/3 vegetable glycerine + 2/3 water. Can get glycerine in most health food stores (and it's cheap!). Glycerine helps hold water in the skin. Just helped with my itchiness, spraying made it easy then still followed up with my sunscreen filled with zinc and niacinimides. Hang in there - it does seem like you have patches of healing skin less red than prior to your treatment, maybe the redness of remaining grids makes it hard for you to see.
February 28, 2016
Thanks so much for sharing your experience! It feels like not much improvement happened those last weeks.. Can you tell me which sunscreen you used? I am having a hard time finding one that my skin can tolerate right now (Tried cetaphil and Avenoo for kids but they burn... thanks!!
February 29, 2016
Sure - I get Elta MD UV Clear Untinted SPF 46. Bought it first from doc's office at insanely high price but found on Amazon for $23 BUT bottle ended up with a faulty pump this time around so need to return for new bottle. As I said a while back, when I had my bad (first treatment) reaction it was the only thing that calmed my skin down, even put it on before bed. Zinc and niacinimides good for healing.
March 11, 2016
LOVING the Elta MD product! it's perfect for my skin and tinted enough that I switch from hevay makeup to tinted bb cream!
btw, no green light was recomnended but a session of pucosur (laser) which i am considering now..
btw, no green light was recomnended but a session of pucosur (laser) which i am considering now..
March 11, 2016
great! this is what I love about this site - we consumers of beauty services need all the help/info we can get...thought the picosure was part of the problem (?)...of course don't know if you'd have response I did to green light for calming stuff down but if you find access and its not too much it wouldn't hurt anything, is completely non-invasive/gentle.
April 15, 2016
Thank you again.. The Elta MD UV clear is awesome and helping me too..and now I'm also using Obaji Sun Shield Tiny broad spectrum 50 sunscreen lotion sometimes too. I also use the C C+ Color Correcting Full Coverage Cream foundation from it Cosmetics. It provides awesome coverage for a foundation and has any-aging serum and SPF of 50 broad spectrum in it. It seemed heaven paired with the Elta Clear so trying with other sunscreens. The CC+ has 50 in it but just being safe and still experimenting . I am 9 days post op! Thanks all and good luck to mixers and others.. ;)
April 15, 2016
Sorry, Post Op cream recommended smacpt or other member here was SkinMedica TNS Ceramide Treatment Cream. Using that mixed with tiny bit of Tretinoid .1%... Then o add sunscreen or CC+ foundation .
April 15, 2016
I asked my provider for the green LED light treatment and she frankly seemed a little shocked or surprised I asked about it.. Or better yet was informed enough to ask about it, she stumbled for an appropriate answer and finally explained she had tried it two years ago when purchasing the Infini but found that it yielded little results. Who knows what the truth is and she returned the machine. Thanks again smacpt for all your helpful info. It helped me heal very well which began as a very negative and traumatic experience.. The one thing I didn't do was the natural vegetable glycerin mixture with water., I can see where it would help with the itchiness too.,
November 29, 2017
This is sounding very familiar to me. Almost like we had same derm.
November 29, 2017
Had similar negative experiences with co2 laser. Left scars. She tried to ‘fix’ with pico laser. Always seemed to be ‘playing around’ with the lasers. I’ve since switched, despite her offer for free treatments.
Did you go back to the original place that caused the damaged??