Overtreatment or normal side effects for chin area

Hair Removal Methods Professional Electrolysis
#101

Hey,

I takes the skin a full 2-years to remodel ANY wound. A lot of what you are seeing is typical to the specific areas. This involves denser (temporary) "wound collagen,’ the action of myofibroblasts … and, residual normal edema.

Yes, you could be left with "permanent’ … but in nearly all cases saying "permanent’ is way too premature. I know you don’t know about these healing dynamics … and too many patients worry like crazy during their time with electrolysis. Once you know the story, you won’t worry as much.

I’m putting all this in a series of Youtube videos … to detail all these processes. It would be too much for your electrologist to explain this to every client … so, I’m going to do it for her.

If you would be so KIND, I’m looking for photos such as the ones you are showing here. If I have your permission, I would like to use these in my videos (cropped, so nobody will ever recognize you … just the affected area). Using your photos will help others that have the same fears and difficulties.

You may contact me at my email: mikebono@cox.net

#102

Michael, sure, you can use my photos. I’ll send you an email too about this soon.

Here is what my chin looks like right now, I tried to get a couple shots from different angles but sorry for the weird lighting/flash… By the way this is about 5 days of time after my last treatment (Wednesday).

The areas I’m talking about are both sides of my chin. These spots appear to look like permanently enlarged pores… but they’ve been “open” for months now (I think I started to notice it about 4 weeks into treatment). Like I said before I started electrolysis with this practitioner, I never had these pores/pits in this spot before, EVER. I’ve had enlarged pores naturally on my cheeks/sides of face and upper lip area, not my chin. That’s why it’s bugging me so much! I hate looking at them now! Perhaps if it isn’t pitting, then these are enlarged pores…it would make sense because of the original huge hairs that were removed during that one painful megasession my electrologist decided to do on me (remember that time my chin swelled up because she took out all the thick hairs at once? OUCH, what a bad reaction, and I totally wish I could go back in time and say NO just thin it out!).

Here is an old picture with the big original hairs in their place… Notice these hairs are in the same spots of where the pores/pits are now.

Any advice/info is appreciated. I understand these pores/pits are most likely not going to close up by now… :frowning: And yes I also still get this area worked on though the hairs are much finer/thin.

#103

Brilliant and thanks. This is ALL about “myofibroblasts” and normal healing. I HAVE TO EXPLAIN all this and have this visually seen. Clients can see these and understand … THANKS!

#104

Hi again. Does anyone have any ideas what I can do right now for my chin that has enlarged/pitted pores? These have showed up for the last two months. I’m beginning to get disheartened about them ever leaving. Would decreasing my sessions to every 3rd week help heal them? Sigh. I know it takes time to heal but the chin is worked on each session since it has many hairs still.

Anything is appreciated.

#105

Read my posts above … hang in there because you have zero to worry about. Video on the way …

I hate that our clients experience needless anxiety, when a simple explanation could take care of this. I can’t write about this again (and again and again). Explanations evaporate on this site. You have to see this … I’m working on it.

Ask your electrologist “what’s going one here?” What is she telling you?

#106

Actually, re-working the area with electrolysis is beneficial to the overall healing (it pumps-up the macrophages). If you are not being “over-treated” stop “fretting” about this. Don’t expect a 2-year outcome to materialize in 2-months!

Maybe some of our experts here can recommend a nice product to put on your skin. (I love the “Super Serum.”) I think that such products can somewhat mitigate a patient’s fears because it "gives them something to do to “help the healing’?”

#107

Thank you for the replies, Michael.

I had a treatment this Wednesday and it’s been 5 days since… There was a patch of many small THIN thin hairs on one side of my chin that grew close together. She treated that area completely, and left a big welt. Okay, I’m fine with the welt – it went down after 4 days…, welt is visibly gone, but now the skin “slightly above” the welt feels ODD!

When I move my mouth/lips, the inner tissue in this area feels bruised/sore… It’s hard to describe. When I touch the skin with my hand the actual skin feels FINE though there is a deep small lump there. Remember I said this spot is directly above where the welt was. When I press hard on the spot it feels sore, but after I press on it the weird bruised/numb feeling goes away temporarily??? The skin is NOT red, welt is gone, and it’s barely visibly raised. I’m not sure what to make of this. It’s almost as if something deep (the muscle or nerve) got a reaction still going on. I want it to stop!!!

Does anyone else have experience with this? Is this gonna go away? It’s really annoying and I can’t talk/open my mouth without the oddly bruised/weird sensation happening… like when the muscle/skin moves there is a tug/bruise/soreness. I don’t quite have the word for it. :confused:

#108

If it helps, In December I’ll have another clearance on my body (17th month of clearances) and my skin does feel sore after clearances in some parts like the upper chest, collar bone and obliques. This soreness lasts for weeks. It will go away.

#109

fenix, thank you for your input. The skin itself isn’t sore to the touch, like it doesn’t feel like bruised skin… it’s something deeper that feels sore/bruised… Is this still what you’re talking about?

Do you advise waiting until the soreness/numbness goes away to do another treatment in this area? Or perhaps I should tell my electrolysis to just work in other areas for the meanwhile? I’m not in a good situation to be skipping sessions unless it’s really needed because the hair grows back really fast and there’s a lot. Thanks!