I have just about had enough!!

Hair Removal Methods Professional Electrolysis
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This is a fantastic forum here guys, ive been reading various thread for the past few weeks, having been reccomended the site by a current member of hairtell.
I apologise for the long post in advance

I really am at rock bottom right now!
I am of south asian descent and thus have always been hairier and the hair being dark exhacberated the problem. In addition to this ive always had irrefular periods but dr’s would just brush it off and say go on the pill or wait till they will regularise themselves. They never did, and after battling for months for a diagnosis and getting an ultrasound I was confirmed as having PCOS

Before I was aware of having PCOS, my hair around my chin sideburns and neck was becoming very coarse and very dark, it was disgusting and i felt sick looking at myself in the mirror, looking back now it was no where near as bad as the state I am in now :frowning:

My mum suggested laser treatment, so i went 4 it, it cost an arm a leg only to casue havoc with my skin causing pigmentation scars, and has made the hair growth worst, i.e thicker and induced more hair growth in areas where there was no coarse hair.

I have been so traumatised by this all it has affected my confidence so for the past 4 years I have threading and plucking, initially it was every 3 or 4 days, now its everyday sumtimes twice a day.

I have friends who have had laser done at the same place as i did who r PCOS sufferes with great success, which is great 4 them but it really depressed me, what is wrong with me :frowning:

Ive tried various medication which helps other PCOS symptoms but the hair has not improved. I dont know if i shud give laser another go, Although reading thus forum makes me want 2 go 4 electrology.

The nature of my work in the health care setting means hair must be tied up and close patient contact, poor patients have to see my disgusting face!! :sick: As a result its so hard to hide stubble and those stubborn hairs that just dont budge, and i am so scared that if i get electrolysis i will have to shave and i dont know if i can handle it

Could any of you reccomend an electrologist in GLasgow Scotland, I would love to travel 2 the states to see James, however it would not be practial for me

Sorry again 4 the long post

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Go for electrolysis. Induced growth on female faces is pretty common with laser.

If you get your first clearance on your face quickly, then you will appear to be pretty much done from that point on. Because as soon as the new baby hair grows in, you will have your electrologist kill it before it “grows up” into a noticeable adult hair. So you really won’t have to shave unless you want to. It should look almost hair-free after the first few months (there will still be lots of hair, but you’ll be getting it removed probably every week, before it’s thick or long enough to be seen by most people).

Whatever you do, no waxing or plucking once you start treatment. That will sabotage you.

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Hi,

I looked through the BIAE directory and found this:

http://www.about-face.co.uk/frame.htm
They have 8(??) BIAE registered electrologists.

Does anyone have any experience with this clinic?

If you’re ready to take the plunge (I recommend it), go for a consult here and any other electrologists you can find. Please read around for what to expect from a good electrologist and what to expect if the treatment is good. From this, you can establish if the test patches you will have are good work or not and then decide if you want to go with one of them.

Then, I would take it slowly in the beginning to ensure that the work is consistently good and that your skin reactions are acceptable (or at least minimised to acceptable as it can take a little while to optimise treatment settings).

You would have to shave with Laser too. If you can get clearance with electrolysis in a few weeks, you won’t need to be shaving for very long as after that you can go in as soon as you see anything come up and get it zapped straight away.

It’s the sacrifice you have to make but it’s worth it. I took my aunt for an electrolysis consult on the weekend and this was something that was worrying her too (leaving the hair). She has a hormonal imbalance that has caused her to have lots of thick chin hairs. Her daughter was sceptical that she would be able to do it. But after the consult she was a lot more positive. It will take her about 2 hours for clearance and she is now feeling committed to leave it alone and get this clearance done asap.

It can be done!

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If you have large portions of your face with coarse dense growth, GOOD laser treatments would be beneficial. However, they would need to be careful not to touch other parts of the face where hair is finer. That’s what happened laser time. What machine was used btw? Hopefully, it was a Yag given your skin type.

Pigmentation issues are not permanent. They can take a while to go away though. You may want to look into some creams to speed up the process if you want.

Are you on any medication for PCOS? Just so you’re aware, you can remove all the hair that’s currently present now. But you have to be prepared to need some touchups in the future for any NEW hair that your body may develop if your hormones are still out of whack and aren’t controlled. This wouldn’t be constant continuous growth. You would just touch up any new hairs that may pop up with a quick electrolysis treatment.

Do you have any photos? Are you only looking to treat your face? How many hairs do you estimate you have?

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Assuming they were bad Laser treatments last time, I think I’d personally still put my time and effort towards finding a good electrologist now, not a good Laser clinic.

You’re going to need to finish with electrolysis anyway (assuming the Laser works this time), so you will need a good electrologist. In my opinion, you may as well start with one. You might need a few extra hours in the beginning for the clearance of thick hairs.

How long ago were these laser treatments?

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Electrolysis all the way, and believe me, after one full clearance on your face, you will feel 10 times better. This is not only because the hair is gone, but it’s at this point that you realize that it works.

I have an idea about how you’re feeling right now, and it sucks. But right from the first treatment, your whole outlook will change.
If you absolutely can’t come to the states, just put in the work to find a proven electrologist. A good place to start would be searching all the past posts on this forum for people who have found a good electrolysis around your area.

Please, no more laser though. :wink:
(didn’t work for my face either, and I had coarse hair)

Also, why do you think you would need to shave if you got electrolysis? The way “i think” it works is, if you don’t want hair to show up, you just go more regularly to the electrologist. I think usually it’s about a month between treatments but James told me that his female clients come more frequently (like every 2-3 weeks? or close to it).
And, the hair grows in lighter after it’s been removed once, so you might not even have the need to shave.