AMAZING Laser Results with Selphyl! - Toronto, ON

Thank you for staying tuned! It's been amazing! My plastic surgeon is absolutely amazing! He's made the entire experience a wonderful one!

I completely understand. I had -one- treatment with the lazer, but it was extremely deep. I can't quite remember what the exact depth was, but he had expressed how he was going to be "aggressive" with the laser. The girl who came and stayed with me, her results haven't been quite the same as mine. However, we remain good friends and in about two weeks it'll be her third visit from across the country. She'll be coming in and getting her third treatment when she comes and visits this time. I've made a friend for life through Realself. :) I only did one laser treatment but three Selphyl treatments, so this visit will be her third. :)

I actually don't remember the exact measurement anymore, just that he had said he was going to be 'quite aggressive'. I had one laser treatment and three Selphyl (vampire facial) treatments to encourage healing, but the photos you see here are only during/after the laser treatment along with the first Selphyl treatment. The young woman who came to stay with me is actually going to be returning here for her third visit in a couple of weeks. :) We've become great friends and she visits whenever she can, I hope to reciprocate and go and visit her in her home sometime soon. ^_^

(Sorry for the double post) I originally thought the first post hadn't shown up, so I tried to remember what I'd said and re-write it! lol

Hey! I just came back to write you another message without even knowing you had already replied :) I just wanted to say, thank you so much for sharing your story, you will never know how much it helped me since i first read it when i commented. When i wrote you that message, as i mentioned in it, it was early morning here in UK and i had been up all night extremely sad about my face, I didn't actually make it clear how amazing i thought your results were as i lost the original message i wrote and had to write it again, it didn't come out as well the second time round! It should have stated in huge capitals; Your results are truly absolutely amazing and you are absolutely stunning, with and without your scar! Your story is the first one which has actually given me hope and where I can actually see amazing results after 6 months of googling and reading many many stories. You must have an amazingly skilled doctor and the fact that you treated it so quickly I'm sure has played a bit part in your amazing results. So yeah, before i reply to your message, thank you so much!!! I was just sat here, doing a bit of work and I thought hang on, i feel so much better, and then i realised i had felt so much better since i read your review so I thought i must come on here and say a proper thank you. I was feeling so hopeless when I found your review and had been desperately looking for a success story to give me some hope, and yours was that success story which i had started to believe i would never find. I had never seen a deep scar(acne or CP/shingles) be made to look invisible before. So even if i dont get rid of mine completely like yours, at least you have given me some hope which is helping me get on with my life a bit, get back in touch with some friends and get some work done (Im at university still)! Since i read your review, I also look so much better! My face suddenly stopped looking red the other day and after putting some make up on, i could only see 3 scars - the deepest ones but 2 of them were hardly visible anymore! I was due a laser session 2 days later so had two days of looking the best ive looked since i had chicken pox and then had my laser, I jumped in a cab and saw a friend and cousin, this is some huge progress for me! Since i read your review i haven't felt as depressed as i felt before and i have finally seen some really good progress too. Thanks so much. I cannot thank you enough. Wow your doctor sounds amazing, he managed to do that in one sitting! I did get that vibe when i read but it just seemed like it must have been more for such results, i am assuming the Selphyl also played a huge role in your healing and maybe made it safer to go so deep? This time when i had laser on thursday, my Doctor used Deep FX on all of my body ones(The ones on my body are flat but still there and darker than my skin tone) and on my deepest facial ones. I also had the usual Icon 1540nm on all of my facial ones. This was the first time i have ever had any kind of C02(Deep FX) and I think he went lightly(so scared I forgot to ask!) but they do look more filled in already so hopefully they will only improve and not go back down. I have read of pesky "micro-swelling" making your scars look filled and then they come back! Fingers crossed they stay raised and raise more! That's amazing that you guys have become such good friends through here but a shame the results havent been the same yet. However, I am sure your doctor is extremely skilled and has chosen in her situation to do more less aggressive treatments (i am assuming) so I am sure she will get the results she wants with time. Maybe you had the perfect skin tone for a deep aggressive treatment. You did seem to heal extremely well and quickly. I have just had my fourth treatment and my doctor said usually people don't have have noticeable results until the after the 4th treatment so my fingers are crossed for her that she gets amazing results this time round :) It's amazing that you can connect with people on here who have gone through exactly what you have gone through. Once again thank you so much for sharing and giving me some hope. I will definitely be posting up a review on my treatment and a (very anonymous) blog on chicken pox advising stuff like avoiding scars, having it as an adult and most importantly advising on the vaccine which i didnt even know existed and has a very high change of preventing shingles in later life too (the NHS is rubbish you only get bare necessities, no CP vaccines and I had to beg and see several docs just to get anti-virals, unfortunately hardly any private Physicians exist in UK especially on a saturday when the Pox came so was stuck with NHS). Dont worry about the double message! The same happened to me when i posted as i said above but i lost my first better one :) Thanks so much for your amazing review. Enjoy having your skin back and looking absolutely amazing [RS bleep] I will comment when i have posted this up :) I wont forget.

Oh wow sorry for the extremely long message. I did actually write this with paragraphs but they seem to have disappeared. P.s I meant at the end of my message, I will comment when i post a real self review up :) I will wait until my treatment is done as it is so slow and my doctor have the best photos. I would also like to be able to write it from an "afterwards" perspective, providing i do someday manage to get rid of these pesky scars x

Sorry for the triple message but I forgot to mention that I had to make a new account as I couldn't log in even after changing my password on the clk26 account hence my difference username! Bit annoying actually now I have two accounts :/ I will try and log in from the other one again just to verify its me. x

Wow 4th message, sorry!! Managed to log in with my other account though after a second password change. Didn't want you to think a wierdo was pretending to be me lol!

Hey there Clklk! I'm so very glad that my review was of use to you, honestly! I check in on Realself because thanks to it, I've not only made a fabulous RealLife friend (lol)-who is visiting for her third trip to Ontario in less than two weeks, but I was able to find reviews and information that really gave me a chance to get some answers that I needed. It's also nice because it gives you the ability to hear from the actual people, and not just from the plastic surgeons. Thank you so very, very much for your kind words! I know how it feels to be sad about the face you see looking back at you in the mirror. I was miserable. Truly miserable. When I was a teenager, the two things I insisted that I would never change about myself were my nose, and my ears. As I grew up, I learned to accept myself as I am, only for the shingles to come around and really take my self-confidence away from me. If it weren't for Dr. Dupere, I don't know where I would be right now. Reading your words here, expressing that my review has given you hope, I wish I could just give you a BIG hug right now. That made my eyes tear up. I'm so glad that my words have given you strength. It means so much to me that my words have actually helped, and I want you to know that there IS an end to the battle. It is such a long, arduous, and stressful battle, but there are fabulous treatments that can help, and great people out there, that can give the right support. When I first started this, I was absolutely miserable, and I felt so alone—but when I joined RealSelf, I found a community of supportive, understanding people. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Your response here has just made my day! I'm so glad that you're starting to see progress! It's amazing what they can do these days! Shingles/chicken pox seems to be hitting people in their twenties more and more these days! When I ended up with it, I went to the hospital FOUR times in three days because I just -knew- something was wrong, but the doctors were so dismissive. The fourth trip, I saw the same doctor from my very first visit, and he looked at me and with a sigh, said, “Oh no. You know what it is? You've got shingles.” I remember being miffed, thinking shingles only affected the elderly. Boy, was I wrong! And the fact that they HAVE a vaccine to stop this from happening (and it's happening a LOT), and they're not giving them to people! The Selphyl speeds up the healing process TEN fold, because what they do is draw your blood, put the blood in a centrifuge and it separates the platelets. Which makes the blood a bright yellow colour (it looked so strange!), and that is what they inject into the skin—but it takes about two-three months to really -see- any of the results, but they are there, working away! I healed like I was Wolverine from X-Men! Three months later, I looked in the mirror and my skin looked perfect; and I'm not even exaggerating here. I didn't even break out for about eight months. It was mind-blowing! Let's just say, around the eight month mark, I took a -lot- of selfies. LOL We went 800 microns (apparently that's -really- deep) to get below the deep pitted scarring originally left behind from the shingles. It worked though, and I'm so grateful that I had a great doctor who understood my stress from the situation. My friend, cdwp (that's her username) is returning in less than two weeks for her third trip, and during that trip, she'll be doing her third Selphyl (same amount of treatments that I had done—albeit the photos only show the first one done with the laser), and we're hoping that will give her own scarring on her nose more incentive to heal up. The Selphyl speeds up the healing, and it's definitely worth the extra money. :) When you -do- get your fourth treatment, keep me updated! I'll definitely want to know if you're seeing the results you're aiming for! I'm crossing my fingers for you, and if you find yourself getting sad again in the future, send me a message and I'll cheer you up! It's good to have someone to talk to who's been through the same thing! Don't stress about the long message! It was a good read, and it gave me a chance to get to know you a little better (anonymous or not lol!), and I'm looking forward to seeing your own review and your photos! It's exciting to know there's an end to this long battle in sight! The clouds are parting and the sun is shining! Thank goodness! I'm keeping me fingers crossed and my hopes high for you! You're going to be able to write from the 'afterwards' perspective, I just feel it! Thank you, Clk! YOU MADE MY DAY with your kind words!

lol My paragraphs disappeared, too! lol Sorry for the super long response!

LOL! Don't worry, I was having the same problem (hence the multiple posts from before!

LOL! Go figure, right? I'm glad you got your account situated!

Thank you so very much for your kind words! ^_^

Thank you so much for your kind words! I am genuinely happy with the results, and it was worth every penny to look in the mirror and see my old face again!

You're going to be so happy! ^_^ Dr. D is amazing. I can't wait to meet you next week, and for you to meet Dr. D! :D

Only 3 more days!!! :)

Thank you! I was glad to share! I'm so very happy with my results! So lucky I was capable of getting my own face back!

I use CoverGirl's Clean cover-up (liquid), and translucent powder from Marcelle! Both are easily found in your local Shoppers Drugmart!

Thank u remydarling I will try that.

For some reason, I've replied to this comment a handful of times--but it's not here (yet again). Please accept my apologies, I -did- respond to this, but for some reason it stays there when I'm here (I might be typing this all for naught) but when I come back--it's not here! I just wanted to express that with the laser, he ONLY treated my nose with the laser, but since the nose is such a small area--he also injected the left over Selphyl (they call it 'liquid gold' for a reason!) into my cheeks, but not my forehead or chin. I wouldn't wish Shingles upon my worst enemy, they're so very unpleasant! I would love to give advice on the discoloration--unfortunately, I'm not quite sure if it would help with it. Albeit considering what it did for me, it wouldn't surprise me that it could. It was like a miracle treatment, and I use the word 'miracle' with all the power behind it. It really made my life livable again!

He truly is! He's been absolutely wonderful!