5th Photoderm treatment

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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