Hello everyone!
Thank you for this great website with vast amount of information about hair removal. I learnt a lot from it. I undergo electrolysis on legs. I started it in 2013. Did one complete clearance with one electrologist within two months. All my hair grown back.
I went to another specialist and complete another clearance within two days by marathon sessions (it was three months after first electrologist finished her work). I had a lot of redness, scabs, itching and so, but it worked. I noticed hair reduction and started to believe in electrolysis. For some personal reasons I took a break almost three years and decided continue electrolysis in 2016. I was very dedicated this time. I found electrologist in my area who has positive reviews, she has more then five years experience, she was train with Dectro and has Apilus Platinum at her office. After a consultation and trial session on smal area everything looked promising. The only thing is that she was very slow, but I was ok with it.
Within six months I did two complete clearances. I came in every two-three weeks and she did 2-3 hours treatments. Then I decided to see if I can notice any improvement and waited about 4 weeks for another session. I was very disappointed when I see that all my hair grow back (I have never seen my legs with so much hairs, even when I just shaved them with no electrolysis) There were huge number of ingrowing hairs during 4 week waiting. I went to the doctor and checked my hormones to see if anything is wrong. Everything was in normal range.
Then I scheduled a consultation with my electrologist where she told me that I will be able to start seeing some improvement only after 10 months if I come every two weeks for 2 hours session. I was not fine with this answer and ask what exactly she is doing on my legs (program, timing, probes and so on). We used Synchro with Program 5-7 for legs. My another concern was than I didn’t feel anything while she was working on me. No pain at all. Sometimes I didn’t even had scabs on my skin after treatments. She used insulated probes 04, 03, 02 on different appointments. After a talking with her, I asked her to increase modes on her Apilus Platinum, to use probes 04 or 05, and be very precise with inserting the probe into follicles. Last week I did 2 hour session. We came up with Synchro Leg 9 modes where we manually increased time to 0.3 sec with 86% power, we used insulated probe 04. I finally started feeling that something happening during a procedure and after I had scabs that for me this is a good sign.
Yesterday I was at another appointment. We started working on the same settings, but I barely feel anything and I saw that hairs didn’t slide out as easy as it was last week. I ask to try higher settings and bigger probe. We ended up to Synchro leg 9 with 0.32 sec with 88% power, probe 05 (she said this is the biggest one). She inserted probe pretty deeply. But still everything looked different and I didn’t feel much pain or anything and this morning I see only a few pink dots on my skin, that is absolutely different from what I saw last week next day after treatment. It looks like I don’t have any redness, red spots and probably won’t see scabs from it.
I am very worried that there is a huge difference of the result of two procedures, and I feel that something is wrong. I thought may be her machine malfunctioning and it needs to be checked. I cannot come up with any idea what we can change to improve treatments and finally start seeing hair reduction.
I would very appreciate if you can share your thoughts with me and may be it’ll help me to consider other options for treatment. I know there are many great professionals and just kind people here, so please help me with your advice.