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Laser Resurfacing Fiasco
Pros:
Open skin closes fairly quickly
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Cons:
There was no difference and I actually have pit marks in my skin in places that did not heal. I broke out in terrible, terrible acne afterward and my skin is 300x worse than when I went in for a light resurfacing.
Even my colleagues at work cannot believe what my skin now looks like. It actually aged me and gave me acne scars, which I never had before.
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Cost:
$650
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Healing time:
2 weeks
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Pain-o-meter: 7
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I would just caution anyone before having this done. Meet people the DR has performed it on. My dermatologist confirmed that my skin is now in much worse shape and appears to have aged. My pores are now huge, like nothing I have ever seen on anyone before and makeup to cover up the redness just accentuates the newly formed pits in my skin.
Looking in the mirror has become a nightmare for me.
Here are more details:
How results differed from what I expected:
I could have never expected there would be no benefit, and that I paid to have someone destroy my facial skin....
Biggest fears pre-procedure:
Hypo pigmentation
Healing aids used:
After the sugery I cleaned the open and red skin with a saline solution for a week every 2 hours, the second week every 4 hours. I also had to apply acquaphor ointment every 2 hours which created such bad acne I could not see any part of my skin without a pimple.
Number of doctors consulted:
2
Number of years I thought about having the procedure:
2
Had an elective procedure before:
No
Complications or follow-up procedures:
Terrible acne for which I know need to use Retin A daily, which keeps the lasered skin continually red.
My pores become enlarged and my skin pitted
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Gender:
Female
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Age:
31
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Ethnic group:
Caucasian
Education:
Post-graduate degree
Country:
United States
State/Province:
New York
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(Source: "the Role of Weight Management in the Health of Women" by Sachiko T. St. Jeor, professor and director of Nutrition Education and Research at the University of Nevada, School of Medicine)
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