Electrolysis/permanent scars

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#41

No one can give a definite answer if anything will work! We certainly hope that the applied products, whatever they may be, will help. I’m telling you what I would advise and at the top of the list would be to let Mother Nature heal this and that will take time. YOU are the one that has to decide which way to go given the options presented. At this point, and hearing how you are demanding that something be done quickly, I would just say to follow what your dermatologist suggests. His or her years of education and practice trump mine and they can see you.

Your English is great, by the way, and I would say something again in plain English or whatever the language you speak, to this person that performed poor electrolysis on you something to the effect about the costs this has incurred to you. At the very least, since this is costing you, present your receipts for medicants and derm visits to her and ask her to pony up (reimburse you).

I’m still thinking that this will heal. The skin can re-structure itself pretty well if you give it TIME and not do anything to it that hampers the normal healing process.

Follow the advice of your dermatologist and see where it takes you.

#42

ok…you have comfort me a little…anyway, i have one more question. I’ve been reading that electrolysis sometimes leaves permanent scars, how come all of you guys tell me that those will heal…?i mean, how do you know that “my scars” will not stay for th rest of my life?
i’m sending you a new photo…i’m a bit concerned becouse my boyfriend told me today that it seems to look worse than a week ago…?ok, here is a photo http://i41.tinypic.com/2hckxo3.jpg (i’ve been trying to catch the best light to show you those depressions-and thanks roma18, but I would like to hear you saying that it doesn’t look that bad if you were in my shoes)
does anyone knows,(I’m talking about a few months from now, if there would be no improvement, if everything this with creams and aloe vera plant fails), is there any method that can return my skin to normal? does anyone know how much is dermabrassion effective?
P.S.i have a little problem with that aloe vera…I’m from croatia…and…I’dont know where to find a living plant

#43

oh my god!
now I’m really really scared! i’m now in 6th week and it didn’t heal…so it means that these mine are permanent?!? :frowning: :frowning: i’m so disapointed and sad…i’m deformed for life.

#44

Ivmi, the appearance of the skin in that last picture is much better. You do not see an improvement because it sees every day, but now looks better. In Spain there is a product called CICAPOST (laboratories ISDIN) 11,80 euros, maybe you can get something similar.

“Crema reparadora específica para el cuidado dermatológico de las zonas cutáneas postcicatriciales que, gracias a sus ingredientes activos (rosa mosqueta, centella asiatica, dexpantenol y vitamina E), mejoran en apariencia, elasticidad y coloración”

#45

thank you, i’ll try to find something, what did he (the expert) said about this Lanola Fett creme?
P.S. so guys, tell me honestly, those scars above my eye, they are that “permanent scars” that everybody’s talking about? i couldn’t sleep all night cause dee’s old post shocked me…

#46

oh my god!
now I’m really really scared! i’m now in 6th week and it didn’t heal…so it means that these mine are permanent?!? :frowning: :frowning: i’m so disapointed and sad…i’m deformed for life. [/quote]

There is a difference between temporary skin marks and permanent scarring. You were overtreated, that doesn’t mean you were scarred. Time will tell and six WEEKS is not enough time, in your case, to know if this will heal or if it will not heal. Wounds heal from the bottom up one cell at a time. You need to be patient and let your body make it happen. Automatically reaching for a “special, expensive cream” to make it happen faster is probably not necessasary, it may even interfer with the healing powers of your own body. Definitely, no more treatments to this area until it is 100% smooth and even again. My guess is it will be fine with time.

If the skin still looks bad after 18 months, then other measures would come into play that only a physician could prescribe.

Dee

#47

thank you! ok…i must be patient…and waiting is not something what I’m good with it will be hard for me, but I hope It would be worth of it :slight_smile:
thanks dee once again!!
I’ll post sometimes pics of my eyebrows just to show you in which state of healing i am! till then big kiss! you helped me a lot!

#48

Progress pictures are great. Please do share how this progresses for you. We’ll wait with you and hope all goes well.

Dee

#49

hello there :wink:
as i promise, here is one picture of how my eyebrow looks now

i’ve been talking with my doctor, he said that the depressions will most likely stay :frowning: …as you can see, the hiperpigmentations looks lighter…but depresions are still here and they will be here probably always…when the winter comes, i’ll go to plastic surgeon who will treat the earea with erbium laser(it does the skin abrasion)…it will flatt out depressions as much as possible…
so photo is here…what you think?

#50

I would be more patient. It takes up to 18 months for the skin to restructure itself. After that, if the area is still depressed, then do other treatment.

#51

Bah, I’m really worried now. I was hoping electrologist would be my answer.

What sort of steps can one take to minimize a chance of scarring? Are dark-skinned people more susceptible (I asked this before but I’m phrasing it differently now) to scarring than other skin types?

I believe I have some faint shallow scarring due to laser (the laser tech sprayed my face with water mist to cool me down after a pass, it was basically her just spraying me w/ water and I think this caused the faint scarring). I also had Fraxel… but I don’t recall this faint scarring after the Fraxel. The LHR occured 5 months later from the Fraxel. And both of these treatments occured in the Summer to Fall of 07.

Dr. Fahey, I’ll probably try to set up a consultation with you if that’s the procedure (I’ll check my other thread since you responded there already).

Can tests spots on the arm be indicative of how the skin will react on the fact? And how do you treat each hair? Does the hair have to be grown or do people have to shave first before coming in?

#52

I would use tea tree oil on this daily before bed for at least a few months before you make any conclusions. Also, use sunblock during the day. This will likely resolve. My eyebrows look perfect now and they definitely had some dots and signs of electrolysis when I first stopped treatments. You need to be a bit more patient before jumping to the scarring conclusion. You really can’t consider it permanent scarring until at least 6-12 months after your last treatment.

#53

well…i somehow can’t belive you that you had depressions like this…i will treat the area whit silicon gel…doctors said that it works on scarring…thanks anyway for shearing your experience…

#54

here is present situation
3 pics from different angles


#55

those definitely look like scars…not hypertrophic or anything but pits or rolling scars…depressions

don’t see how rubbing tree oil on them will do anything as they seem quite deep

i don’t understand, how did this happen? you have light skin too…

#56

One has very thin skin in the eye area. Mistakes made in this area show up much more than mistakes made in other areas.

You do need to rebuild the skin in this area, and as such, Aloe Vera both topically on the skin, and internally will help. Tea Tree Oil overnight takes care of any necrotic tissue and helps normalize the skin. The silicon gel helps smooth our the skin and even out the collagen and keratin production.

If the best work were done here, there would be nothing to see but the absence of hair, and skin that looked like no hair ever grew there.

#57

they seem quite deep, but believe it or not…they are less than half mm deep…

#58

must be the lighting i guess

i know the feeling. i have pin-prick holes too but if i stretch my skin it disappears

#59

exactly! I try to catch the lightening that show them in worst condition…they are not that deep… as I say it is less than half mm…but the place is delicate…

#60

The only possible cure is time. No one can assure you that this area will return to normal smooth skin. We can only assume that it will with good care and patience. NEVER have I had a client wit this kind of overtreatment on the eyebrows. I have seen such overtreatment on other places on the faces and those areas healed nicely, with time (12-18 months). Trust me, I have done thousands of sessions on eyebrow cases and all that happens is slight redness/pinkness ans slight swelling that lasts less than a couple hours. No scabbing. No pustules. No coarse hair after the year is up. Short pick up sessions about every six months for the thinner hair or two that comes forth. This is accomplish with no indentations. Your “electrologist” needs to be trained or re-trained and care about every person she works on as if she were working on her own face.