Marathon Sessions with Anesthesia?

Just out of curiosity James, what’s the longest you’ve worked on a person in a day and/or weekend, and how often do you do these lengthy sessions? Those are some strong-willed individuals if they can sit/lie down in a chair for 10+ hours over a day or two.

If you feel hard being a lot hours continuously having electrolysis, it is much more difficult and harder working.

The stress of carrying a rapid pace and the concentration needed to make precise insertions, after all, that will determine the rate of results. Few electrologists have the ability to stay focused for 8-hours per day, I do not want to imagine how it will be 10-hours per day.

I’ll weigh in even though I am not James. The longest I have worked was 7.75 hours with a few stretch breaks. You got to have the right set up to do this.

I can’t say for sure what my record would be, but I know that 12 to 13 hours in one day has been done more than once on one person. We typically work 4 hours, get a meal, and get back to work. Honestly, outside of the first two clearances, it is not all that horrible. Just a problem with the fact that you just slept for 8 hours, and now you are expected to lay down for another long extended time. The body wants to run free.

I am am old man these days, and I don’t think I want to schedule doing that much in one day anymore. What ever my record is (possibly 16 hours), I think I will leave it to stand unbroken.

old man??? But if you now have the same appearance as the baby James in your avatar.
You have made a pact with the devil, James?

You should see my painting in the attic. :wink:

I have just begun a regular yoga class again,I think it is important in our profession,to remain as flexible as possible,especially since doing many long sessions now. Not anywhere near as long as James or Dee though, and definetly no plans to challenge James’s record. Does anyone else here do yoga?

Yoga is on the agenda for my continuing education class this coming Sunday! I need to take a serious look at this. Most of my appointments are over an hour.

Hi Christine:

Yes, I’ve been doing yoga for the last 6 years. I find that it helps with increasing/maintaining one’s flexibility as well as being good exercise.

I also find the relaxation phase at the end of the sessions to be helpful as well as the breathing exercises.

Some men shy away from it since they don’t consider it macho enough, but it’s really a lot harder than they realize.

As one gets older it’s important to maintain flexibility.

Alicia

hahaha James.

Oh yes girls!!
Some of my clients have told me how good they feel when they do yoga. I have to put it first on my list of resolutions for the coming year. Sometimes my neck sounds like a rusty old door, waking in the morning.
A good massage in skilled hands it would be wise too.

(Alicia, now I understand better why always your words convey relaxation and balance)

What do You define as an hour in this respect?
Today we are at 5 hours through the glasses and just starting our break.

Beate

I really mean 12 to 13 hours of work. The real time in the treatment room often exceeds that, as the machine is not counting the time when we might be doing other things, like, say, removing some ingrown hairs, or prepping an area with topical.

Trust me, some of my out of town clients have done days that started at 9 or 10am, and ended past midnight so that they could make their flights the next day with maximum amount of work done. These days, I like to limit myself to something more human like 6 to 8 hours. Why do you ask what an hour means in this respect?

Why i asked?

Because it is not obvious per se if you meant pure time of epilation (“through the glasses”) or total time of work.

But please let me agree to Your general message: an optimum in vision equipment and lighting is a prerequisite to be able to offer such long sessions.

BTW: it feels good seeing the progress achieved by such an effort.

Beate

Myself, as a client, I’ve built up to having 6 hours of treatment (with a lunch break) at one place and then another 2 hours at another place. Then same thing next day. Yes the hardest part is staying on the table for that long. Good conversation is essential. :wink: (or movies etc.) And for treatment on facial areas, you want total relaxation.

I only use EMLA for the galvanic treatments on certain sensitive areas (mid-lower back, tummy, around nipples and near armpits)) On a few occasion I have had EMLA all over my back and chest abdomen and I did not feel good - like passing out. I have heard/read it’s not good to use on so large an area.

You are correct. It is not good to spread EMLA or any similar topical around that large an area. What you want to do is to separate the job into sections, and prep one section at a time. It is humanly impossible for the practitioner to clear the entire back in an hour, if you have any significant amount of hair. So you make your sections the size of what you believe you can do in one hour. Come to the treatment with the first area prepped and ready to go (or work on another area you don’t need the topical) and then prep the next area to set up as you work on the first area. By the time you clear that first area, you are ready for the second area, and so on until you are done. Even with this plan, food and water breaks are essential, as your body needs to process the topical and excrete it out of your system as quickly as it can, and you need to eat High Fiber foods while getting lots of water, to keep yourself from developing constipation from the medication.

This is why, for my money, it has always been worth it to upgrade my equipment for what ever improvement on sensation could be had, as it is best to be able to do work that does not require topicals in the first place.

I will pile on and simply say that any topical anesthetic is not to be used on large sections of the body. James’ advise is great and needs to be heeded. The idea that applying topical lidocaine to large areas is okay because EMLA or LMX are not compounded topicals, is wrong. The manufacturers do not say it is safe to do this. It is being done, however, and I personally would not suggest to anyone that large area application is fine until the manufacturer says it is okay.

If electrologists would upgrade and re-train, there would be no need for topicals. Many people suffer unecessasarily and can only lay on the table for no more than 30 minutes. Less than 1% of my clients walk in with lidocaine preparations applied and they do well. They can tolerate well over an hour of treatment because the sensation from the Apilus Platinum is much more tolerable.

Add, “When properly utilized by someone well trained to do so.” I have heard about people using the Apilus Platinum as if it were an old Kree, and I gotta tell you that thought sends shivers up my spine, and boils my blood.

I know there are places that are awful as far as pain goes, but I found 3+ hours generally a breeze. The lip would hurt, but James was done in no time it seemed, so it wasn’t like we had to split it up. I’ve only been under picoflash and synchro, but, I can not imagine having the probe in there for seconds at a time. I’ll take milliseconds for 1000 Alex!!