Photoderm results

[Guest guest]

I have been holding off reporting the results of my photoderm

treatments hoping that I would have something more positive to write

in the future. After four treatments with a Bitter trained

physician, I am somewhat disappointed with the results and have come

to the regretable conclusion that this treatment or Bitter's protocol

simply does not work well for me.

I say this with a good deal of hesitancy, because I know that many

people have received wonderful results with the photoderm under

Bitter's protocol. Based on my experience, however, I cannot

enthusiatically recommend the treatment. After every treatment,

except the first, it has caused serious flares with minimal

improvement. Indeed, in some ways I believe it may have worsened

the condition, because the rosacea has spread to other parts of my

face which were previously not a problem. Often I have wondered in

the last weeks is the cure worse than the disease.

Although it should be obvious that I am a bit frustrated and

discouraged, I am not trying to " bash " photoderm, because others have

had tremendous results with this treatment and I saw some good

results after my first treatment (which was very conservative). I

just want to supply information to those people who are considering

this treatment. It may not be the magical cure I was hoping it would

be.

Are there any other protocols for photoderm other than Bitter's? My

doctor (and I beleive Dr. Nase) said that you have to be very

agressive. But I recall someone from Australia (I beleive) was being

treated by a doctor who used conservative photoderm settings. I am

particularly interested in any information on the latter protocol,

because I did, in fact, see very good results after my first phtoderm

treatment which used low settings.

[Guest guest]

Hi . That's SUCH a bumber that the Photoderm treatments

didn't

work for you. I'm going for my first one in a week. My doctor, Dr.

Moy at UCLA was trained by Dr. Bitter Jr. Was your Doctor trained by

Bitter Sr. or Bitter Jr? Not that it matters. My guess is that we

all

respond differently to it. Will they give you partial refund of your

money at least?? Did you ask your doctor why he thinks it didn't

work

for you but it works so well for others? And one final question,

does

it hurt?

-julie