Profound RF for lip lines, cheeks, marionette lines & jowls

Yesterday, My bruising was still dark. It remains mostly around my mouth and on my neck, and looks pretty awful. My neck, especially, is still swollen and jiggly. My face is now swollen in some places and not in others, creating a lumpy effect (not what I was going for), but I am sure this is temporary and part of healing. I would NOT go anywhere in public like this if we weren't facing a pandemic and it is still the norm to wear a mask. The lumpiness and very dark bruises would not be concealable with makeup. How am I feeling? My face has started feeling sort of fuzzy. It feels much like a foot that has gone to sleep. I find myself contorting my face to try to move it around and "wake it up." This is hilarious to my children.

Yesterday was day 3 (day of procedure as day 1). I slept with my head elevated the night before and continued to ice for 20 minutes every few hours for the first part of the day. The swelling in my face had gone down enough that my phone recognized me. Redness has dissipated. Dark purple bruising on my face showed up, but is mostly around my mouth. I can easily cover it with a mask, and did so when I picked my children up from school. The bruising on my neck is pretty much unchanged. My neck remains swollen, and is even jiggly. I know this is temporary and part of the recovery period. I'm starting to feel some nerve-like itching and tingling sensations at times, and these make me a little nervous. Lastly, I've developed two large pimples with big white centers on my chin. I called the provider's office, and the Dr. called me back and told me it was likely clogged pores. He advised me to leave these alone and discontinue the Aquafor I was applying because it sounded like the skin was healed and I no longer needed this protective glaze.

I decided to profound rf because I'm not at all ready for a facelift at 48, but have vertical lip lines, some wrinkling on my cheeks, the start of some marionette lines, a less defined jawline than I would like, and the first hint of jowls (that sounds awful now that I've written it all out). Sorry, but I don't feel comfortable posting pics. I will do my best to describe everything, because I've benefited so much from others' reviews. I am very anxious when it comes to any kind of procedure, so did my research on this one. The plastic surgeon who does my botox and filler started offering Profound, and I tentatively got on board after office staff described it to me. I would not have done this in a medspa, or with a provider I didn't know and trust, because I've read in several places that user experience and training are important predictors of results. Day of: Someone drove me to the office and I signed consents. The nurse put numbing cream on my face and swabs of oral anesthetic inside my mouth for superficial numbing. Next came the shots of anesthesia. This was by far and away the very worst part. I could never, ever have done it had I not had a valium, and I ended up taking a second one before they started the actual procedure because I was so shaken. If you don't do well with the needles at the dentist or elsewhere, beware. I lost count of how many sticks there were, but every single one was painful. By the last third of the sticks, I was yelling out pain scale numbers unprompted, and they ranged from 6 on up to 10. I also cried. And swore. Next, they moved me to the treatment room, and laid me all the way back in a large chair. There was a bright, operating light overhead. The procedure itself was very tolerable. There was some discomfort, but nothing like the numbing injections. The Dr. held the machine head firmly over patches of skin, and it made a clicking noise, followed by four seconds of sound as the needles stayed in place, delivering the radio frequency. A few times, I could feel the very strange and uncomfortable sensation of something zapping and wiggling deep under my skin, but it otherwise was almost painless. Toward the end, I started to feel things more, and he numbed me up with more shots. When he finished, I looked like an extra from a zombie movie. The anesthesia turned my skin very white, and there were red and purple spots all over I was also very, very swollen right away. I was told this was the fluid in my face. Today is day 2. I slept with my head elevated and I've iced religiously. the swelling has gone down, but my phone still doesn't recognize me, so I'm still - well - that swollen. The swelling isn't uniform; rather, my face looks somewhat lumpy. I'm also red like I have a bad sunburn, and my skin feels hot. The bruising on my face appears to be minimal (fingers crossed it stays that way); my neck, however, is a different story. It looks like someone tried to strangle me. I shall keep icing, taking my arnica, and will give an update in a day or two!