Hello everyone. This is my first post/question so forgive me if it isn’t done correctly or if it not in the correct category. I have a question about scarring from electrolysis. From reading online and on this forum it seems like scarring is a very rare happening when you have a licensed and board certified electrolgist. But still, we get Mark’s on our face and it hard to keep your brain from thinking you are that 1 in a 1000 person.
All I have read about scarring from electrolysis seems as though when they happen they are in the form of pits, or indentations or some other form of being below the skin’s natural level. Not sure if that is true or not. I have a series of bumpy spots on my upper lip, I had thick coarse hair so I’m sure a good current was needed, but I didn’t see much in the way of negative affects. Some crusts formed which came off on their own in less than a week, swelling of the upper lip but leveled off within a week, and my electrolgist commented a few times how my skin was healing so well. I thought everything was great. Then about 6 months ago, 6 or 7 months after treatment started, I looked in the mirror of my car and it looked like I had these deep smokers wrinkles. And I’m not a smoker. After getting home and looking in my makeup mirror I could see I didn’t really have “deep wrinkles” but rather they were an optical illusion of spaces in between the lumpy spots.
Could lumpy patches be scars? I’m hoping it’s just inflammation and the collagen turnover in Mr Bono’s videos… but having been 6 months, my brain is panicking thinking I traded facial hair for a horrible complexion. Can electrolysis scar be raised patches or are they always “pits” or “indentations”?