I’ve been doing electrolysis on my back and am looking for some advice concerning what are some red, inflamed parts where the treatment was done. I’ve attached some pictures to give you an idea (even if the quality is not so good, especially not on the close-up).
These rashes developed directly after treatment and I haven’t touched them in any way, even if they have been hurting and itching. In the pictures it’s been over a month ago since the treatment that provoked them and they have now healed up somewhat. I should also say that I am not removing any massive amounts of hair, a session normally takes about 30-45 minutes and it’s been ten days to two weeks between treatments for the two months that I have been going.
I asked the electrologist about this and she thought they were inflamed follicles, but I am wondering if that is correct. The thing is that they are quite big and soar, and seem to heal relatively slowly. Can anyone confirm what this is about and if it is normal that this happens? And does anyone know how long it will take for this to heal again?
It really is difficult to see much in the pictures. It seems that the red circles belong to sessions on different days. The larger circle appears the most recent, has spent more time, this time?
The darkness at the center of red circle appears to correspond to small crusts on the healing process.
You must have a special hair density for these circles correspond to a 30-minute session.
I think they actually are all from the same session, but I am not sure. But the biggest one is maybe 5-6 weeks old I think. What the pictures probably don’t show is that the rashes are not from different hairs in one area, each big rash/circle is where one or maybe two hairs habve been treated. That is, each rash or scab correspond to where before grew one-two hairs. That’s why the electrologist thought they were inflamated follicles, i.e. that each rash corresponded to an inflamated follicle.
So the rashes are just on a couple of places where I’ve been treated, the other places look better. In other words the hair density as such is not very high.
Hope this clarifies a bit and can give some clues to if these are normal scabs or what…
That’s really odd because that’s what it is. I am taking away maybe 100-150 hairs in total, which of almost all grow on the neck/upper arms. On the part of my back where the scabs/rashes are only the occasional hair grows but since I was getting rid of the other hair, I figured I could just as well take away the few that grow in other places as well.
The electrologist didn’t seem sure when I asked her either, but she thought it was some sort of inflammation.
This is freaking me out a bit, since I don’t want to get more of these marks and I am not sure how they will heal exactly.
If anyone knows what this could be or why this is happening please let me know!
Can you resubmit a better quality of picture? Those circles don’t correspond with the electrolysis temporary side effects. From my view, it almost looks like bruises that are healing??
Thanks, I will try to take better pictures and submit as soon as I can. But the best way to describe them are probably like big scabs, I am thinking it might be some sort of infection but I’m no expert. At one point I thought it could have been birthmarks that got a reaction from the electrolysis, but I’m not sure that is the case or if that would make sense as an explanation to the scabs/rashes.
I understand that this wouldn’t be normal side effects of electrolysis but the rashes/scabs came about as a reaction to the treatment, and I have never had anything like this happen to me before in terms of similar rashes etc so it must be some sort of side effect.
Only a doctor can diagnose what’s happening. I’m thinking electrolysis is not causing this particular reaction, but may be waking up an underlying condition already present in your skin, eg. a fungus perhaps???
Thanks Dee, you are probably right. I’m thinking now that it’s probably some kind of eczema of sorts that was somehow triggered by the electrolysis,or however you explain it in medical terms. I’m meeting my electrologist on Friday and I’ll see what she says about seeing a doctor, maybe that’s the best option after all. Anyway thanks for answering and giving feedback, it really helps to get additional info like this when you’re not sure what’s going on.
