PCOS Messages for June, 2002: Re: first laser session... is this normal???

Re: first laser session... is this normal???

From: jodi (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 18 Jun 2002 12:51:16 -0500 (CDT)

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At Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Katie wrote: >
>Hi Jodi,
>
>I get the laser, too. You may wax or pluck your hair off as soon as any
>tenderness is gone from the laser. I usually wait 24 hours. It does
>take a while for the hair to come out on it's own, but you can certainly
>help it along.
>Also, if you wax, pluck or whatever you may have a few strays that pop
>up in the next few days.

Hmmm... well, i don't have any irritation from the laser. Either I'm really lucky or it wasn't done correctly!! :-) When you say "If you wax, pluck or whatever you may have a few strays that pop up in the next few days" do you mean that plucking now might keep the laser from working, that it might restimulate the follicle and make it grow again... or do you mean, just don't think it will stay smooth after plucking just because you've had laser? (Does the distinction make sense???) The laser lady said try not to pluck but I don't want to wait 14 days for the stubble to go away!!!!!! She didn't say WHY I shouldn't pluck...

>I have been doing laser for awhile and my upper lip hair is baby fine
>(barely there) and my chin is all white hairs now. All the dark are
>gone. They are trying to get the white hairs with a new laser that is
>supposed to work on them.
>(and I think your spattering grease description is pretty good, ha ha)

What is this new laser? I figured that in the end I would try electrolysis on the remaining colorless hairs. I wouldn't care if they were colorless and fine but they are colorless and coarse. I think my chin has always felt worse than it looks because of this...

>
>I also think that people with pcos need to add a few treatments onto the
>number they give.

I know. She said 3-5 for a normal women, probably 5-7 for a woman with PCOS...

>
>For between lasers or right after, have you tried "poetic waxing" it is
>the best
>product I have tried for home hair removal. It is easy and really
>effective.

Nope. Never done chin waxing on my own. The hairs are coarse and have those darn keratiny root systems (not the scientific term I know...) so I have to let them get so long before I can wax... I just pluck so I can do it as needed.

>
>Good luck with your treatments!

Thank you! Even if I can get this reduced by 1/2 I'll be dancing a happy dance.

- jodi

>
>--
>Katie
>
>At Tue, 18 Jun 2002, jodi wrote:
>>
>>well gals, i went for my first laser session today. my first REAL
>>session, i mean, as opposed to my free nickle-sized patch test which i
>>had last week.
>>
>>for those of you wondering what laser really feels like... i kept
>>reading reports of it feeling like a rubber band being snapped against
>>the skin. i couldn't quite imagine this feeling in relation to laser
>>hair removal... what size rubber band??? how frequently??? etc... well,
>>what it really feels like is hot grease spattering your skin. if you've
>>ever fried something and tossed something wet or ice crystally into the
>>grease, that light burny spattery feeling is pretty close to laser.
>>laser hurts a little less, actually, but that's close...
>>
>>ANYWAY. so, i was under the dilusion that after the procedure, my chin
>>would be nice and smooth. but, it's not. it feels better than it did
>>before the procedure... but it's not smooth. i was told that this is
>>normal, that it can now take up to 14 days for the hair to fall out...
>>and now i'm sitting here wondering, is that true??? or did i just pay
>>for someone to singe my hair off and do nothing below the surface???
>>
>>Anyone know?
>>
>>Also, are you supposed to tip your laser person the way you're supposed
>>to tip a hairdresser? It costs so much to begin with... yikes.
>>
>>- jodi
>

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