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Careful with DIY Ice Pick TCA Cross. Good & Bad

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Well, I'll start out with "i should have ben more...

Robin79
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Well, I'll start out with "i should have ben more patient."

I bought 100% TCA online several months ago for a disgusting recessed pore or two that seemed to drag my face down and give an optical illusion of scarring much worse than just a "ripped pore". I have other tiny pits due to years of small, recurring cystic acne pustules and its done a number on my face. The two pocks that i treated were the two that offended me the most. Between my cheek / nose / mouth. I simply should have been more patient...

1. Apx 2pm - dipped toothpick into 100% TCA vial. Stabbed gross pock with lightly dipped end. Saw light frost, felt no real pain (30% TCA on a broader area patch testing hurt more, before and gave fewer results). I wondeed if it was working..

2. 8pm - I didn't see the "bruising" or greyness that has been apparent with other peels so i AGAIN used the toothpick concerned nothing of significance had happened .

3. 3 days out - ew, scab

4. 9 days out - partial scab recedes..area around icepick that i must have spread peel to on my second adventure has no scabbing. pocked small icepick still scabbed with light crust (very different from highly scabby 30% broadly applied TCA).

5. Day 12 - no scab! Hooray! However, theres two really shallow, soft, lightly purple / pink boxcar scars where my nasty ice pick scars were.



*** word to DIY plastic surgeons *** don't hesitate to have a derm do this. If you cannot afford it and need to play with fire, please go at the ice puck gently. It need not HURT. Even 100% TCA shouldn't do much more than *tingle* and ypu shouldn't let the toothpick *sit there* fast, dunk, remove, on to the next, no time to let it drizzle to surrounding skin.


Good news: NO MORE ICE PiCK. I hated that mar!

Bad news: Two gently roling box cars that i dont think will look as nasty as an ice pick, ultimately. I learned a lesson.

I will try again, again even if there is some bad / good. And do it right for better results with patience.

In the end, nothing is uglier than an icepick dot the size of a period and im glad it's gone and expect healing to continue.

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Me. I did tem. See a pro, derm, surgeon. I couldn't afford it.

Replies (3)

February 21, 2018
Hey, would you happen to have a before and after? (Please and thank you) :)
February 22, 2018
Hi,

I have posted some of before. Please don't do this to your own face or take my advice given previously. I see now that I've made a horrible mistake and that the scar is much bigger. I was just hopeful and positive, previously. Please see a dermatologist for this treatment. I'd never do this again on my own without a professional.

Thanks,
Robin
February 24, 2018
May I ask where you received your treatment?
UPDATED FROM Robin79
4 months post

Before

Robin79
After - see, it's much larger... Don't do this on your own. I never want anyone else to play with 100-% TCA on their own.

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July 25, 2018
100% TCA it's too much for self applying, anyway, you don't look that bad, just go and see a derm