For those of you not getting responses, there is one other possibility I had not considered. But as I think about it, it is a possibility. How old are you?
What I have seen is young guys (who were still going through puberty and growing new hair; which can last into young adulthood) trying to remove hair that was naturally coming in. Combine that with very short intervals and you can get to the point where you do a lot of treatments and see no results, and actually see a worsening.
Otherwise, I have never seen someone not get some improvement and hair reduction with that many treatments. I’ve seen some difficult cases that have required a lot of treatments, but in most situations it was due to technological limitations at the time of treatment. And to put things in perspective, we’ve done over 350,000 treatments since 1997. So it isn’t like we haven’t seen quite a few people.
One other option for those of you who are not getting good results. Get a biopsy of the area to look for destroyed hair. Not terribly expensive and I would think that your center would do it at no charge just to find out if you are having any success. it would help settle the question as to where you are able to destroy any hair at all. Also, very careful hair counts would help.
Finally, an open question to the electrologists. My understanding of electrolysis is second hand based on collaborating with a number of them, but by no means am I an expert. What is the success rate of electrolysis in actually destroying an individual hair? Are there hairs that are resistant? The reason I ask is that as one thinks through the mechanism of hair removal, whether laser or electrolysis, the final “pathway” is the same (not counting galvanic); which is the creation of heat that kills the follicular cells. If I am wrong there please correct me.
But if the final pathway is the same then the response rate should be the same, if the heat generation mechanism are equally effective. Now we know that red, white and blond hair do not generate enough (if any) heat, so they can not be destroyed by laser. But the heat generation of black hair should be equivalent (assuming adequate energy levels). I’m sort of thinking out loud here, but what I am hypothesizing is whether any difference between the two methods is due to differences in heat generation or something intrinsic to the hair. Like I said, just thinking out loud.