Hi everyone, I have a question regarding electrolysis and re-growth. I undertook electrolysis treatment on my back (I am male and 35 years old) for about a year and with good results I think. I did not have an extreme hair growth to begin with and full clearance was obtained from the first session and then each session would last about 20-25 minutes. The time between the sessions were around 1 month to 1,5 months, maybe being a bit more frequent just in the beginning. I think the machine that was used was a Sterex and the electrologist had long experience and a good reputation.
It has now been 1,5 months since my last session and results are looking OK, no big re-growth and I am quite content with how my back looks right now. I think one or two more sessions would have been ideal but I had to stop the sessions because I had to go abroad for ten months and where I am there is no access to any electrologist
So my first question is: Can I take it for granted that this will be the end result of the treatment? Or am I to expect more re-growth in the coming months?
The second question is: What if I would decide to pick up the electrolysis once back home again, would that mean I would have to “start all over”? What I mean is, would that mean that I again would have to go through about a one-year cycle of treatments to get rid of whatever remaining hair there is? Or can I expect the treatment time to be shorter since I am picking up where I left it ten months earlier so to speak?
Hope these questions make sense and sorry if the post is long. All answers are most welcomed and especially those from you guys who are professional electrologists, like Dee and James. Thanks a lot in advance!
Assuming everything else went ok, you would pick up the treatments where you left off. It is very likely that you would not have any hairs to treat until the month you left the country. At that point, what ever was left would come in as it would have done at that time, and then you would go back into your hair free state for another year, if you got no treatment.
I had a back client who was religious about his treatments, other than the fact that every year, between late November, and mid February, family obligations made it almost impossible to make any appointments that he made. Some years we got a few treatments in late November, and if we were lucky one in early December, and maybe we got one in January or February, but we NEVER worked a day past the first week of December until late January.
He finally gave up on that, as his family commitments were not going anywhere, and winter was the only time he had any back hair left. Since he could romp on the beach and be hairless, and the only way he could ever have any stray hairs would be taking off his shirt over Thanksgiving and Christmas Vacation, he was satisfied that it had worked.
He understood that the only way we would ever be able to get those last hairs would be for him to cancel his family stuff during the holiday season, and his family was not going to allow that to ever happen. Also, there was so little hair left, that it just was not a factor anymore.
Hi James. After reading your post, am I correct in thinking that throughout a year, different hairs appear? Sorry, I know this sounds silly and I understand hair and their cycles are complicated things, but I thought that once a hair is removed it takes anything between 6 - 12 weeks to re-appear. So I always assumed, after about 3 months, all hairs would have shown themselves at some point and are just resurfacing every 6-12 weeks. How is it that hairs that are not killed off in a certain month will be there a year later? Would they not just reappear several weeks later?? Or does this all depend on where on the body hair is??? (I’m dealing with the chin ones!)
I hope you don’t mind me asking but I have got myself all confused!!!
Yes, the hairs you have in January are not the hairs you have growing in July, are not the hairs you have in November. It takes at least 9 month at a minimum for all hairs to show themselves at least once.
To reinforce James’ statement, I had a client today who decided to do her toes. She’s a nurse and wanted to watch, so she was asking me questions about the hairs as they came out. Once I cleared the long hairs (she had a lot!) we could see clipped hairs. (Obvious by their blunt tips.) I said, “These are hairs left over from the last time you shaved your toes.” She said, “Really? I haven’t shaved my toes since last summer.” So I repeated the part of the consultation explaining that hair follicles can remain dormant for a long time before producing the next hair.
Regarding dondon113, a 35 year old man might not even be done with hair production on his back, however, getting it cleared a few times then getting occasional clearings will keep you looking good and feeling confident.