Re: breakouts after photoder,

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Thats encouraging that at least they cleared up. I've had tons of new skin

problems since starting photoderm.. and I really hope they go away I

have tons of tiny little red circles now that I didn't used to have... I

hope a few months after my last treatment they will go away. What i'm even

more concerned about though is this horrible burning feeling in the left

side of my face. I used to have some burning sensations during bad flushes,

but now the left side of my face burns all the time. The right side of my

face rarely hurts at all, but the left side of my face feels flushed 24/7,

and hurts way worse than pre-photoderm. I have no idea what this means, and

the lady performing my treatments is clueless too, and its been four weeks

since my last treatment and this still hasnt gone away My original flush

zone was my cheeks (mainly upper area). This painful flushing sensation

starts on the upper part of my left cheek and goes left to around where my

sideburn is, down to the bottom left part of my cheek, and then my left ear.

Even though a someof this area was never treated with Photoderm, and some of

it was only treated once. I'm pretty freaked out that it hasnt gone away

and that the lady doesn't know what the cause of this is. If anyone has any

insight I would really really like to hear it.

Re: breakouts after photoder,

> The exact same thing happened to me following a photoderm test. I broke

out

> in little tiny hard pimples at the test site. Eventually they cleared up

but

> it took months. I didn't go ahead with photoderm and opted for vbeam. Now

the

> same thing is happening with vbeam and I don't think I'm going to proceed.

To

> date I've only had small areas treated to try and circumvent the problem.

>

> What does your doctor say about the side effects you're experiencing? I'm

> afraid that many doctors don't want to acknowledge that photoderm/vbeam ,

> etc. can cause many patients to experience adverse and lasting side

effects.

>

> I was surprised that you posted that your only symptom prior to treatment

was

> flushing. I was theorising that people with acne rosacea (skin with

papules

> and pustules) had a more difficult time with this type of treatment with

more

> varying results. But you indicated that you didn't initially have the acne

> component of rosacea, unlike myself.

>

> Final word: I think that many studies reporting the results of

photodermvbeam

> , etc. are very misleading. I have found my experience to be very

different

> from most reported.

>

> For example, in Doctor Nase's book most doctors report some clearing after

> the first treatment. This did not happen with me. I experienced absolutely

no

> clearing and my skin looked redder for months. I attributed this to an

> inflammatory response to treatment. As I still see no improvement, there

is

> really no reason for me to continue to assault my skin in this way.

>

> I caution all people undergoing this treatment to really pay attention to

> your test results. If your skin responds adversely, base your treatment

> protocol on that, and not the glowing patient reports indicated in the

> photoderm studies.

>

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