Laser Hair Removal - What to know

[SaadiaB]

Re: Laser Hair Removal - What to know

@stoppit

[SUP]quietly bangs head in the wall[/SUP]

Saadia - I feel you did not read my first post thoroughly. It discusses shedding, treatment spacing and when you will be able to tell if it’s working. I can confidently say that right now, neither you nor the tech can say if you have permanently destroying follicles. I’m not going to re-hash what I’ve said before, so please read the first post and later posts.
Unless you are having treatments with an 8 week gap (for face), you have not in reality had two actual treatments. Anything closer together and you can consider it a single treatment in regards to which ‘lot’ of hair cycle it is targeting. All the hair will shed and between treatments you can have hair free periods. But unless you are leaving it at least 8 weeks (face only) before each appointment, you will not have any idea if you are seeing a reduction or not. And really, for such an area, you won’t know for sure until you stop treatment and wait at least 6 months for the follicles to re-establish themselves.
Take for example my full leg treatment. The hairs on the back of my thighs were very fine and I doubted Laser will be able to kill those follicles. The technician also told me to expect the same thing. However, since the clinic could not charge less to not treat them, we decided to do them anyway with as high settings as possible. I got full shedding of those hairs and the area, like the rest of my legs was smooth between treatments until the next cycle of hair started to emerge. It is when I stopped treatments and let the follicles that were still active to re-establish that I could see what the results were. About 85% reduction on lower legs (remaining hairs were the fine ones which Laser couldn’t kill), 70% reduction on front thighs (remaining hairs were fine and medium again, that Laser couldn’t kill. Thighs don’t respond well to Laser) and no reduction on the back of the thighs since all the hair was fine to begin with.

Stoppit I appreciate your reply to my post but dont get offended if you see my post as its against the laser logic, but I did write that so far its been good. I did read your first post, many times in fact. The first time the technician did not target all hair so I came back after 4 weeks, and this time she did target the ones that she had missed before. She did tell me I have to come 5-6 times to be sure that I have hair loss and then might have to come time to time to target hair that might come out later. Which is ok with me.

I know u are for electrolysis for face but find me one in my city and I will happily go there, in google I have not found any place for electrolysis in my city.