about a year ago, i underwent three months of electrolysis (1 hour a week) on my nipples, chest, neck, and stomach.
i have scarring and ingrowns in all these areas now. in some places (around the nipple), the ingrowns are not infected, but rest under the skin in tiny dark lumps.
have had terrible infections on my stomach and neck, and purple scarring, making that skin tougher, and harder for the hairs to get through. admittedly, i’ve been digging at them, but only because they won’t come out otherwise - i wrestled a 5 inch hair out of my neck the other month (giving myself a nice blunt wound in the process).
doc says am healthy (have had blood tests), i just seem to heal slowly and scar easily.
the hairs are black and coarse. my skin is fair. (i won’t do laser on these areas though, for fear of increased growth.) no hormone dysfunction either, in case that matters.
can anyone recommend skilled london dermatologists, estheticians (who might at least be able to pluck hygienically without causing the damage i’ve seen so far) and/or electrologists?
my gp set up the paperwork for a derm referral eight months ago, and i haven’t heard anything yet. i don’t know who can help me with this - digging out ingrowns on a regular basis. my nhs gp won’t do it. a private doc i saw a while ago invited me to come back, said she’d get any hairs out safely, but at 60 pounds a pop i can’t afford it. am wary of estheticians (am not originally from the uk, don’t have referrals) as experience so far have made me nervous.
(i asked the one i went to most recently what sort of technique and machine she used - the ‘normal’ one, she said.)
i’m afraid of subjecting my skin to further experiment without guidance.
any advice is welcome.
thank you