Good move, pink piper. What is the name of the laser that is being used? What are the levels?

Dee

Please start a new thread on the laser hair removal section of this forum so we can help monitor your progress and make sure you're getting results. Just because someone is a doctor doesn't mean they're experienced at laser hair removal. We normally recommend to check out 4-5 places before committing. There are many types of lasers out there and everyone usually will tell you their is best, which isn't true.

Anyway, good luck with your treatment and please start a thread with your progress.

And yes, you need to treat ONLY shaved areas with laser. Also, for legs, you won't need treatments more than once every 10-12 weeks if they're effective. And remember that you should be hairfree 3 weeks after each treatment. See what happens to make sure this is happening - that's how you tell effectiveness.

It's Candela Gentle Lase 755

http://www.candelalaser.com/products/index.cfm?task=gentlelase

So far so good. No growth!

I have the same obsession, actually. I cant stop, its so awesome o:

HA, i looked up plucking knee hair and found this.
then i joined just to post this
i have these tiny tweezers and they are small enough to pull out leg hair. i started pulling out knee hair and that's all i really do, i couldn't do it for weeks since i lost my tweezers and i went mad on the inside since i couldn't do anything for my knees, so whenever i shaved i just shaved my knee so ever slightly so i could just dig in and get those hairs under those bumps. i JUST found my tweezers too...it for some reason makes me happy knowing i continuously pluck hairs that are not painful to pluck. is this really a form of OCD? wow if it really is.
well, im going to go pluck my hairs!

Yes, it's a form of OCD.

As noted here previously, many OCD's are a result of a need for more B-Complex vitamins, and Eccential Fatty Acids. The brain doesn't work the same without them. In fact, schizophrenia can be induced with a simple lack of Vitamin B-9/Folic acid, and/or vitamin B-6/Pyridoxine and/or Vibamin B-12/Methocobalmin in a very short time. It used to be that you could not officially diagnose a person as schizophrenic unless you had first proved that supplamental B-6 did not cure them. Of course, most peole don't eat Liver and sunflower seeds, so where are they going to get these things in their diets?

I'm a little confused by all this. I also obsessively pluck my leg hairs, but don't tend to get many ingrowing ones after this way, certainly not a fraction of the number I got when I tried epilation!

I used to wax my legs, but after several goes at that I started to get bumps after a week that itched like crazy (I assumed because it was growing back finer), and when I bought an epilator thinking that would be less messy than waxing, this just got worse. It seems my hair is brittle and more likely to snap just above (which is fine but would have looked better shaved) or just below the surface (which leads to the bumps) than to actually pull out properly.

It was so bad having a week of my legs itching like they had a hundred mosquito bites on them that I gave up on the epilator entirely. But with tweezers, if I'm really careful, I can gently pull the hair out in the right direction and not make it snap.

So, why is everyone else getting scarring all over their legs from tweezering? Yes, sometimes I get the hairs that you can see growing along under the skin, and I'm compelled to dig those out... but that barely leaves a mark. Also, after having my bikini line waxed in a salon once, I had a deep ingrown hair that left an angry red mark for weeks, and when I finally decided to "operate", it healed up nice and fast afterwards.

The scarring is from multiple wounds, pitting, and infections from constant tissue injury.

Seriously, OCD's are easy to induce in humans via nutritional maniplulation. Just check out Pellagra and Schizophrenia.

I'm surprised and glad I found this discussion. I'm 57 and just started doing this last week (dammit!) I had knee surgery recently and was lying around looking at my legs, and it suddenly seemed tempting to just clean up a few strays. Then, it became an obsession. I seem to long for an opportunity to slide them out. I go on hunting missions and am disappointed when I can't find anything. Oh, my. I actually thought I might be doing some good--sort of the equivalent of waxing. But after reading this, I've learned a thing or two. I'm already seeing the red bumps and going after the ingrowns when I run out of stubs. I suspected an OCD was behind this. I think I'll talk to my doctor. And I'll try to take this group's advice about nutrition and clearing up the scars.

In any case, it's always a comfort to learn one is not alone.