Hope This Goes As Well As It Did for the Rest of You! - Roseville, CA

Thank you for all of your feed back and messages. Thank goodness for this web site and such a caring community. It's truly amazing how many people there are that want to help one another. The doctor contacted me and discussed the benefits/risks of a 4th treatment. She was actually very concerned to my situation. I went ahead with the 4th treatment. I really hope it works.

Had a 3rd miraDry treatment last summer because once again the sweating had slowly returned. Dr. Prasad would not go higher than a level 3. Third treatment at a level 3. I was even charged full price for a 3rd treatment. Now the sweating has returned but full force. I went back to Dr. Prasad's office and the miraDry rep. (I don't remember her name I think Suzy or Su-Li) met with us to see why the treatment is failing again. The miraDry rep and Dr. Prasad did the corn starch/ iodine test (this test was never administered/offered prior to this - I would definitely recommend you insist upon the test prior to any treatments, otherwise they are blindly treating your problem). I'm not too sure about the miraDry now, because the guy seen prior to me was there because he had several failing miraDry treatments too. When I had my 3rd treatment, there was actually another guy there that was having his 3rd treatment as well because the first 2 had failed for him as well. My iodine/corn starch test clearly showed sweating (and it wasn't a very good test - the miraDry rep. told me to lay down on the bed, in the freezing cold doctor's office and do some upside down leg cycling - I told her it wouldn't make me sweat but she didn't seem to care). She didn't take pictures or even seem like she was concerned medically/scientifically. (I work with RN's/MD's/all sorts of medical professionals - I know the "how interesting" look) Sooo...even though the doctor and the miraDry rep both agreed there was sweating of the axillae...the miraDry rep. then decided the sweat was simply coming from the side of my boobs. She said they never treated the side of my boobs (duh), so there was nothing miraDry could do, and there was nothing that I could do. I never had sweat from the side of my boobs before, and even though I had temporary relief from sweating after the first 3 miraDry treatments; suddenly the rep. claims the source of my problems is my boobs? not my arm-pits? This makes no sense. Then why wouldn't the sides of the boobs sweat any other time? They should have been sweating when the axillae stopped sweating and I should have never had ANY relief from sweating at all, right? This just doesn't make sense to me. So I'm drenching everything again. Bye-bye light colored clothes (which really sucks because it's summer now). Hello ruined clothes. I asked Dr. Prasad to give me the miraDry rep.s contact number but I was told no, it's confidential. They are offering a 4th treatment at a level 5 - and they WANT ME TO PAY for it. This is such a nightmare. The expense, the healing, the pain and suffering would have all been worth it if the miraDry actually worked but now I feel like I have been tricked. You'd think miraDry would stand behind their product and make this right. Right? I think the first treatment went so well because the miraDry rep (a different one - I think his name was Mike ) was there WATCHING and CATCHING the areas that the doctor had missed. He really knew what he was doing. But, the 2nd treatment was really painful, I think the doctor missed spots when she numbed me, and also missed spots when treating me. The 3rd treatment wasn't even with the doctor. It was with a nurse. It hurt even more and the whole thing went really quick. I think the nurse missed even more spots when she did the treatment. I'm not sure what my options are as far as finding a solution to all of this. I really thought this was life changing - well, it was while it lasted. Does anyone know how to contact the miraDry reps?

Completed the 2nd treatment 1/14/2014. The second time around was much better than the first (healing wise). By day 2 much of the swelling had subsided. The swelling and pain was very mild compared to the first treatment. The only difference this time was that I used Arnicare gel afterward instead of cream...it is very soothing.
Dr. Prasad and her staff were very caring and professional. They made sure I was comfortable the entire procedure. They followed up with me to make sure I was healing well, and everything looked great at my post-treatment visit.

To anyone questioning wether miraDry is the right approach...this procedure is life changing.