Im about two months into electrolysis! FEEL LOST!!

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So saturday was such a good day for my face. Now today the growth is long and itchy. Getting through work tomorrow will be hard! But it is what it is.

Thank you for all the ideas, i will find tendskin coz my ingrowns are so bad.
I feel as if i have an over all bumpy face and neck where the electro is done. How long will this last after all is said and done? Could it be like this forever?
I now use witch hazel, and the tea tree oil, the aloe doesnt seem to help at all, it clogs all my pores and makes a mess! I have been using ice after treatment and this stuff called Quench PT.

I asked my doc for a few vicodins but she wouldnt give them to me =( I have never used a pain med, I dont know i think she worried because they are addicting, I do however take meds as needed for anxiety, and i take one of them b4 treatment and 600 mgs of advil.

I drink tons of water on the day of treatment, and avoid all caffein. I know what the treatmnet will bring but i still get so nervous and its hard so hard to lay there!!!

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You can just take an ibuprofen or advil.

The inflammation should go away within a few days. This is the worst it will be since you just got your first clearance. From now on, you’ll only be treating minor regrowth once a week or so, it won’t be anything too bad.

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I think i am confused on what a clearance is!
I went for hours and hours for a month, i mean up to 5 hours a week. Within the first month she had done all the visible hairs on my neck and face.
I did not shave for a week or so, ignored the few pesky hairs i saw, then i had all new growth, and i went for hours and hours and now i cant keep up! LOL, and yes i might seem like i am fustrated and i know this takes time, and it IS getting to be less hair, it just seems as tho there is no end in sight, my emotional battle is very bad the day before treatment, i believe letting hairs grow on my face and neck is just so new, they have been there for over ten years but i always shaved, today I havent shaved for three days! And altho the hairs are much more sparse, they seem so long!!! And I do not suggest anyone has a magnifying mirror at home, i look and get so overwhelmed!

I feel like for every hair removed the ones remaining look so prominant, from not being shaved! The thing is, I no longer have a five oclock shadow at 10 am. But the way the hair grows in so much sparser and the fact i let it go now and do not shave, it feels sooooooooooo overwhelming!

So define clearance?

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A first clearance is when all of the unwanted hair (you can see, that is above the skin) has been removed for the first time.

eg. Someone has unwanted hair on their upper lip, they come in for treatment all of the hair on their upper lip is removed at the end of that treatment session, then they have had a “first clearance.” If they come in at their next appointment and all of the hair is removed again, they have achieved another clearance.

Some who had unwanted hair on their upper lip, goes in for treatment but not all of the hair is removed at the end has not had a “first clearance”.

When one goes for treatment, it is always best to have a first clearance. (Sometimes it isn’t possible if the amount of hair is large and there is a significant time and financial cost, or the pain is not tolerable long enough to finish.)

In a nutshell, the reason why a first clearance is so important, is that it clears out all of the hair regardless of growth cycle. So at the next appointment, any hair that breaks through the skin will have to be growing (in anagen stage) which is the ideal time to treat a hair.

After a first clearance, if the client sticks to their appointment schedule all of the hairs will be in anagen. If they get a clearance at that time and stick to their schedule for the next appointment, all the hairs will be in anagen, and so forth. If a schedule is not maintained the hairs may go from anagen to catagen or telogen so at the next appointment it may take longer and you are less likely to get a kill on out of phase hairs.

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Now i suppose I need to look up those types of hairs, anogen telogen are new to me. I think that my eletrolygist has said them but honestly, I tune her out someitmes, i mean the nervous have been huge, so I think I have gotten more info from the net and on here then her, due to my state of mind.

=) that helps some tho!
Thank you, and yes I have had the first clearance, and a second. How many times does it go on??? No one knows for sure huh!

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After your first clearance, you shouldn’t “ignore” the new hairs that pop up. AS SOON AS THEY DO, you should come in for treatment. That’s very important. You’ll be done a lot faster if you come in regularly and remove any new hairs that pop up while they’re still weak. That’s the proper way to do electrolysis and to be done as soon as possible. Plus, you’ll always look hairfree and you won’t irritate your skin as much since you won’t be removing a ton of dense hair every time.

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Oh I mean I ignore them while they gro a bit and look past them. I am sorry I am unclear. I go in for treatment at least twice a week.

My hair was so DENSE when I started. It is sporadic now.

One thing I always notice is that most MENS hair growth goes up there cheek, mine goes down my neck and for this I am thankful.

I have an appointment with my doctor next week and they will do another test on my hormones to see where I am at, I really think about taking meds for the adogren testosterone inbalance, but there are lots of things to consider! I like my sex drive! It seems like production would peak and then start to go down just like woman with estrogen.

Questions for my doc!

Thank you, I am well on my way and will eventually post pictures!

=) Happy Monday!

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They may recommend birth control that can help, like Yasmine. It’s not as drastic as Spiro.

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Yeah we tried the BC, but my BP got high!!! So they put me on BP meds, which hair growth can be a side effect!

LOL~ I got my lip numbing and gas in my vette! I take the vette to electro it makes me feel sexy…haha.

Your a doll and your advice always helps =)

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Ginger, Tumeric, Cilantro/Coriander are the “Spice Girls” who do good things to one’s blood pressure and cholesterol. Have these “Girls” over for dinner regularly, and one won’t need to worry about a few health problems.

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The reduced density is a good sign!

My hair grows up from the chest up the neck until about halfway up, where it starts growing in the opposite direction away from the chin. The hair on both sides of the neck grow away from the center if the neck, not sure if this is typical or not.

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my cholesterol is awesome! I have an anxiety issue, I no longer suffer from anxiety I live with it, i get very nervous before my electro treatment and i have been doing it sense May. You think I wouldnt have a problem with it. Hence my BP goes up, I would have to say i eat cilantro often, the other spices no, ill do some research on recipes! =)
I have a typical figure you see on a woman with PCOS, im pretty small from my toes to my thighs and then about a 16 from there on up!i was on BC for years, I loved it, I miss it! But they said with my high blood pressure, and the fact i am almost 36 it might be good to stop, who knows maybe this week at my appointments i can get back on the pill.

I had almost a full clearnace in my session today, an hour and a half, I had one last week too! It means I dont have to shave again! YAY!!! I have this one lil patch i might use the electric razor on, it was red, not really sore, and i didnt want her to work on it.

My upper lip was no problem, it took up about a half hour of todays treatment and the LMX works wonders, not even a tear shed! But i tweeze my brows often and i am kinda use to that sensation! The odd thing is i just have peach fuzz on my upper lip except on the corners of my SMILE up about a half inch, very odd growth to me, but then this whole facial hair thing to me is ODD! I still want to know why? Maybe i need to look into PCOS more, but just didnt do well with the meds they put me on so i think Im fine, normal paps and have had all my kids i plan on, so Ill just wait it out, see what the year brings!

I will puton the tea tree oil tonight. What base do you use with it? It is way to strong straight! I Diluted it with some extra virgin olive oil by the suggestion of the herbalist, is this okay? Olive oil on my neck sounds insane, but it is very dry from treatment. I DO NOT like ALOE! I even spent more then i wanted on all organic pure clear aloe and i dont like how my skin reacts.

PHEW!!! I have a lot to say, i think its being able to talk openly about my hairy face and not feel different, I know I am so not alone now!

=)

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Just want to make sure you understand that we’re talking about a specific birth control pill, Yasmine, that helps with the hair issue. This doesn’t apply to all BC pills.

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I would also suggest that you make sure you are getting enough fiber (20 plus grams a day) and you may want to work on stomach enzymes and B-complex. An inexpensive way to do this would be to eat pineapples. If you have a food processor you can even use the pineapple core, which has the most enzymes.

The body can’t make or utilize B vitamins if the stomach and intestines are not working correctly. If you have not already, you may want to read The Diet Cure, by Julia Ross. It has great info on PCOS and other stuff.