Re: 5th Photoderm treatment

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You should have seen results by now. I'd try another photoderm doc

or move on to other treatments.

patty

> I am new to this group and wanted to share my experiences with

> treating my rosacea with photoderm so far. I'm a 28 year female

with

> a mild case of rosacea which was diagnosed by a dermatologist in

> Manhattan a year ago, whose of treatment was a prescption of

> Metrolotion which didn't do anything for me and Retin A for my

large

> pores, which I didn't use because I was fortunate enough to have

> purchase and read Dr. Nase's book soon after being diagnosed. I

say

> a mild case of rosacea, but it really bothers me cosmetically as it

> is really noticeable to me because I am extremely fair skinned and

> before this developed, I had the nicest skin. I also think I may

have

> brought this on myself by using AHA products for the last 6 years

and

> nobody else in my family seems to have it. Now where the redness

of

> the rosacea is on my cheeks, nose and temples, the pores are

large,

> the skin is dry and flaky and does not look good. I flush

> occasionally to hot rooms, cold windy weather and alcohol.

>

> Anyhow, after changing my skin care regimen to include just Oil of

> olay foaming face wash for sensitive skin, Sy's Zinco and

> Tolerin Moisturizer 5 months ago, trying Noritate and not seeing

any

> improvement, I decided to try the photoderm treatments with a

> dermatologist trained by Dr Bitter in October. I began to worry

> after my third treatment when I saw absolutely no results, because

I

> was told improvement usually begins after the third. So I went

back

> for the fourth, hoping that maybe this would be the one, but again,

> afterwards I saw nothing. I just went to my fifth this past Monday

> and was freaking out at the dermatologist, (who by the way seems to

> really want to help me I think), telling her that I haven't see any

> improvement so far and should I even spend $500 more after I have

> already spent $2000 which has gotten me zero results? She said she

> was going to be more aggressive with this 5th treatment and try a

new

> technique where she does a series of passes without changing the

> cooling gel.

>

> Well, its two days after the treatment and I'm not sure if its too

> soon to tell yet having not had any improvements after the previous

> treatments, but I see nothing and I am really, really upset. The

> derm told me Monday that sometimes it takes as many as ten

treatments

> for improvement (she didn't mention this before) and I'm wondering

if

> this is true and should I keep trying with this or does this

> treatment just not work for some people and I am wasting my money.

> Does the V-Beam work better for some than the photoderm? If anyone

> has any suggestions or similar experiences with the photoderm, I

> would really appreciate hearing them. I have learned alot from this

> group from reading the posts.

>

> le