Summer is approaching and I am concerned about sun exposure and LHR, due to much of what i have read , and as i tend to have strange reactions to sun, sunscreens on my skin.
I am considering having my next treatment ( #3 ) mid may and then taking a break during the hot sunny months of june, july, august, letting my skin go back to its pale state for sept and resume treatment in october and for winter months.
[font:Arial Black]Will taking extended breaks affect effectiveness of treatment ?[/font] Techs has said that once the hair is dead it is dead so I am figuring that as long as I shave and not wax during the break that it will be the same , or better than having a reaction from laser and sun exposure post treatment or having to use lower settings with skin that may have some degree of tan.
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“Finally, the question as to how long to wait between treatments. This has been a controversial issue from day one of laser hair removal. The initial theory was 4 weeks so as to treat during early anagen. Our internal research showed different and this was later rebuked by some good targeted research. But the 4 to 8 weeks theory still continues, probably for economic reasons. We suggest 8 weeks minimum but I prefer 12-16 weeks. We suggest 8-12 weeks because some clients just don’t want to wait and so we felt that 8-12 weeks was a fair compromise. And even then, for some people and some sites, 8 weeks is not enough time for their hair to grow back and to thicken. We routinely have people come back if they are not ready to be treated at 8 weeks. My person opinion (after 300,000 treatments) is that the longer you wait between treatments, the better your results, up to a point. That point being somewhere around 6-8 months. So waiting won’t make your treatments less effective and in fact will make them better.”-sslhr
http://www.cosmeticenhancementsforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3927
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