Hello-
In a desperate search for relief, I stumbled across this forum. Thank goodness for all of you wonderful people!
I am a skin type III and am in the process of getting brazilian hair reduction using IPL. I had my third treatment last monday. This is where my story gets to be too much info:
For some reason, the skin on the inside of the outer “lips” of my private part(does that make sense?) got burned, the part that I wipe when I pee. I don’t know why she would have zapped that area, because hair doesn’t grow there. Now, everytime I wipe, my charred skin comes off on the toilet paper, and I now have really bad burns down there. I think the top several layers of skin have come off. I am also itchy in parts, but have been very careful to not scratch, and now I’m just lightly “patting” intead of wiping when I pee, then rinsing in the shower. I’m thinking it might be infected because the pain has gotten to be unbearable over the last several hours.
I’ve tried burn creams- that makes the pain much much worse. As I type this, I’m lying on an ice pack, which seems to help a little. Also, I’m taking Ibprophen.
I’ve never gone through any drastic beauty treatments before this, so I don’t know if this is normal or not. No, this isn’t some sort of weird STD- I’ve been with my husband for 11 years.
I called my medispa this afternoon and left a message, and havent heard back from them yet.
I’m in so much pain! Also, I’m pretty angry with my tech because my skin is rather dark down there, so I feel like she should have known to avoid that area. I’ve read that dark skin burns easily.
Has anyone else had a similar experience? Any advice? Any suggestions for relief until the medispa calls me back?
I was so pleased with my treatments up until this. Now, I’m not sure I want to continue, but I’ve already paid for all 8 treatments, and only recieved 3.
Thank you so much.