This sounds VERY familiar to what I wrote about in other posts. I have TERRIBLE ingrown hairs from the electrolysis and I have scars in some areas. The hair still grows and I have to repuncture the area so that it can come through the skin. The hair simply cannot break through the scar tissue anymore. And they aren’t different hairs growing. It’s the same hair. It is very apparent given the location of the scar tissue and ingrown hair. I have been getting electrolysis for over two years and am convinced it is glorified plucking.
Do you feel actual tweezing.? Has there been any reduction / weakening of the growth over this time?
You have described exactly the same situation that happened with me! btw, on what area you did electrolysis? I wish that other people were more informed about this HUGE side-effect of electrolysis. I did it for three years, every time hoping that it will eventually get rid of all hairs. But I did it last time one year and a half ago, and also, stupidly did one time on small area of my upper leg. This small areas are completely ruined now because I believe skin there is very tender, and I had really DEEP curly ingrown hairs there which is not going to healed! And all these sore are not going to heal for half a year already! I am not mentioning ugly violet scars after them which will fade only after a year. UGH!
No, I do not feel any tweezing. The first woman I went to most likely did not go in deep enough because it always looked like the hair was simply broken off under the skin. The hair usually popped out of the skin within a few days. The person I go to now does a good job by all professional terms. She is highly skilled and highly recommended. I do not have this problem with my eyebrows. My eyebrows have worked and they look great. It’s the hair on my stomach and areolas that result in the ingrown hairs and scars.
What does youe electrologist say? Your current one.
Hi:
I’ve had many tens of thousands of hairs removed over the years and occasionally I get an ingrown.
My electrologist does her best to remove them if possible without causing too much damage.
Can you please tell me how did your electrologis remove ingrown hair without causing too much damage?
Just want to show what is going to happen with my legs after 1 and a half (!!!) years of ending my three (!!!) years journey with electrolysis! Also, I want to say that it was not plucking because I did see a bulb. Also, it was not over treatment because it was not very painful. I stopped doing it 1,5 years ago, and very some thin hairs are keep going under my skin. When I got it under it, they are with bulb and looking like a dead hairs. It seems to me that it never ends! also, hairs stops growing normally. Hairs that are growing just growing under the skin, but they all are dead or extremely week. But they are under the skin! I do not know what to do with this ugly scars after these ingrowns. After rotary epilator I got just a few of them! I with I did not stop just using it! My dermatologist prescribed me an ointment with A, D and E vitamins because these sores from ingrown did not want to heal by months already! I am in despair!
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Do you have extremely dry skin? Any history of eczema? While the occasional ingrowing hair is common enough, the levels you describe are very unusual. I hope to be able to view your photos soon.
It seems to me that I have a normal skin, neither had an eczema.
On a photo, I tried to attach it, it writes that the photo is attached, but then I see that it is not. The thing that shocked me that I did 7 years rotary epilation before, and only after about five years I got some ingrowns.Decided to do electrolysis. And first three years I had quite a bunch of ingrowns, but all these years I hoped that it would be going to stop pretty soon when all hairs would be completely killed. But I stopped doing it 1 and a half years ago, and I already lost believe that I will ever resolve this problem!
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There is something else going on here. This is EXTREME hyperpigmentation on par with self-mutilation. Not saying that you are self-mutilating, but the hyperpigmentation part is beyond what I expected to see. This degree of hyperpigmentation compares to what one would see after being bit by hundreds of venomous spiders at once. This is beyond any advice I can give on an internet forum and and it would be prudent for you to stay close to a physician who has a relationship with you.
Electrolysis does not cause this kind of reaction. Removing the hair permanently is imperative so the hyperpigmentation can resolve on it’s own in a matter of 6-12 months. Contiunous trauma to the skin in whatever form, can cause this immune response - hyperpigmentation.
Dee
Afterthoughts: Are you a diabetic? Were you doing electrolysis on yourself? Were you “digging” out the ingrowns on yourself? If so, with what tool? Did you ever get infections on each spot? You said you were not overtreated with electrolysis and that it wasn’t too painful, thus making me conclude that the this extreme damage is not related to electrolysis. Again, there is something else happening here that we are not being told. I have worked on many, many, leg cases with ingrowns and THIS would be a [color:#FF6666]virtually impossible[/color] skin outcome. You are welcome to tell us more information if you want to.
This is an example of why we ask for pictures and I want to thank you for taking the time to submit your picture.
Yeah, I agree. That is extreme and I can’t see how electrolysis would do that and not have you in a lot of pain.
My thoughts: Could you have had an allergic reaction to something instead? Perhaps an aftercare product, or a lotion that got into your newly-treated follicles too soon after a treatment?
I’ve had the worst case of Ingrown hair on my stomach before I started electrolysis but It was never to this degree. Initally when I started getting treatments on my stomach it got worse but now It looks as if nothing ever happend there ( except when I go for treatment I get scabs that go away in two weeks). Your case is very extreme, and the spots look to big to be from electolysis. are these ingorwn hairs infected??? Do you have them anywhere else on your body???
Hi Ekade, If I have understood correctly, you say that those injuries have been produced with Electrolysis?
I’ll say what I see.
The lesions are deep, with a diameter that would encompass not one, not two or three but a group of hair, more characteristic of foruncles on the bikini line area. In the picture, I see the legs of a little hairy person. When a woman develops hair just below her knees, lateral lower end and the back of your thighs, this woman has hair with small diameter (medium to fine hair). Lesions consistent with the area where the coarse hairs are more abundant, but the diameter of those lesions is not proportional to the size of hair that originally should have. The lesions are separated by large empty areas, which means two things:
One: if they had been treated follicles in groups mean that there was a lot of hair density in the area. If so, why the empty spaces?
Two: If hairs were treated isolated why injuries are the size of a pea when they should have a grain of sand?
Honestly here’s something that does not fit.
It strikes me that many people these days have been brainwashed by the media to say Electrolysis when they mean Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. (That’s L.A.S.E.R. to most of you folks) This pattern of scarring would make much more sense coming from a series of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation treatments. We have plenty pictures on the site that would be similar, and even worse than this for that type of treatment.
If I had a dollar for every time someone said to me, “Wow, you do electrolysis! What kind of L.A.S.E.R. do you use?”
Of course, I know the difference between electrolysis and laser hair removal! It is absolutely different things!
My last electrolysis treatment was 1,5 years ago. These scars now from removing ingrown hairs which now do not grow normally, only growing like ingrown. I hope that it would stop some day! Ointment with A, E and d vitamins seems helped with healing these sores from removing ingrown hairs. Now I have to do something with these ugly hyper pigmentation and pray that these crazy ingrown-growth would ever stop!
Now you are back to electrolysis to cure the ingrowns. [size:14pt]You need properly performed electrolysis.[/size] A professional electrologist should be the ONLY person touching your legs. You have harmed your own skin and you would be wise to stop whatever you are doing to remove ingrowns!!!
How many electrologists are there in your locale? Can you tell us about the electrologist you went to? No detail is too small.