My Treatment Diary - Cynosure YAG

Hair Removal Methods Laser hair removal
#1

First Treatment:
05/17/06 45J
Lower Legs and Lower Arms - No Impact. I did feel pain during the treatment but there was no redness at all.

Second Treatment:
06/14/06 90J
Lower Legs … It has been 9 days since the treatment, and I have not shaved. I have very vellus type hair – so it works. Today I used loofah and tried pulling few hairs to see if they slide and yes they did. I have noticed the hair that are longer did not come out but are very short easily slide out. [Note: I only trimmed my hair with a trimmer before treatment.] Why will this be?

06/21/06 90J
Lower Arms … there was redness on my arms and I still have few scabs here and there on them. To early to talk about shedding.

#2

longer hairs might be the missed hairs, but you really need to wait 2-3 weeks to make any conclusions.

#3

90J seems quite high. Please advise which Cynosure Model.
Is it the Acclaim 7000 or the Elite ND YAG only. Also, do you know what pulse width was used ?? ( 20 msec, 40 msec, etc )

#4

I will figure out the model name and the pulse rate for you. I see few longer hair are shedding as well, and there are missed spots as well.

#5

My LHR practitioner is on vacation, so I could not find the model and pulse rate information.

But, it has been a little over 3 weeks on my legs, and hair are still shedding [very few though]. Besides that I shaved my legs for Jul-4, as I was out in the sun with friends, and they are still hairless. [I usually shave once/twice a week.] The area close to knees seems to be the one that was not treated well, as I can see hair there.

For my arms, I have not seen much shedding but they look quite hairless as yet. It had been a little over 2 weeks that they were treated. I have not tried to pull the hair out on them as they are anyways very fine and now I cannot even see them unless I put them in sunlight at an angle. So, I guess I am going to just wait and see when they actually fall on their own.

I am going to try lasering my abdomen with Yag at these setting, and see how it goes. If I do not see results of shedding in one treatment, I am going to switch to Lighsheer for abdomen.