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Super_Ideal_Rock
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Soooo since all this started, I've had two 8 micron nano peels. I did an Oobagi blue peel-which isn't blue so that was a disappointment. I did a session with an IPL laser light on half my face and then just the super intense heat on the other side of my face, both designed to kill bacteria. Then I did a full face w/the super intense heat a couple weeks after that. I found a cleansing system designed for cystic acne with..I forget what it's called but an acid in it that starts with an M...murolonic or something.
None of this worked. I went back up for my last 8 micron nano peel last night to finish out the package of three I'd bought. She said b/c I was in such bad shape and I have five days off work, she would do a 20 micron and not charge me the difference. It required numbing cream. I still felt it. It hurt. I'm a pain handling fool, I'll take a tattoo for four hours like nobody's business-but 10 minutes of the peel and I was ready to tap out. I don't know HOW people get tattoos on their faces. Or necks. Seriously.
I slept about eleven seconds last night. Buuuuurn oh my lord did it burn like woah. I am red. I took pics to send to a couple coworkers so I will see if there's any that don't show my face so you can see the red b/c let's be honest, I'm pretty fricken self conscious as it is and I fully admit, I look ugly in the pictures. It's very tight right now, hard to talk, eat, smile etc.
So. I went to the Dr. today b/c I've had a horrible cough for over a month. We talked about my face. She is going to call a retired dermatologist she used to work for, and that I used to see, to ask if there's anything she can think of to run for tests or any other medical professionals to see. They took a bunch of blood to test for allergies, those results won't be in till Monday probably but she checks all the time, so if they come in beforehand, she'll call. I'm making an appt with another dermatologist to see if he has any thoughts/ideas where to go, what to try, I want to exhaust everything I possibly can before deciding if I need to do a sixth effing treatment of Accutane. I asked about a referral to an endocrinologist as well. I said I'd like to do what I can to get to the root cause of it b/c it's SO BAD. If there's no underlying cause, if they run everything they can think of and nothing is "wrong" then maybe this is just my lot in life. I don't know. But I want to be aggressive in searching for an answer and a course of action.
(and on top of that my cholesterol is thru the roof and they found a slight heart murmur--my parents and brother all have heart issues so off for an echo I go next Thursday)
None of this worked. I went back up for my last 8 micron nano peel last night to finish out the package of three I'd bought. She said b/c I was in such bad shape and I have five days off work, she would do a 20 micron and not charge me the difference. It required numbing cream. I still felt it. It hurt. I'm a pain handling fool, I'll take a tattoo for four hours like nobody's business-but 10 minutes of the peel and I was ready to tap out. I don't know HOW people get tattoos on their faces. Or necks. Seriously.
I slept about eleven seconds last night. Buuuuurn oh my lord did it burn like woah. I am red. I took pics to send to a couple coworkers so I will see if there's any that don't show my face so you can see the red b/c let's be honest, I'm pretty fricken self conscious as it is and I fully admit, I look ugly in the pictures. It's very tight right now, hard to talk, eat, smile etc.
So. I went to the Dr. today b/c I've had a horrible cough for over a month. We talked about my face. She is going to call a retired dermatologist she used to work for, and that I used to see, to ask if there's anything she can think of to run for tests or any other medical professionals to see. They took a bunch of blood to test for allergies, those results won't be in till Monday probably but she checks all the time, so if they come in beforehand, she'll call. I'm making an appt with another dermatologist to see if he has any thoughts/ideas where to go, what to try, I want to exhaust everything I possibly can before deciding if I need to do a sixth effing treatment of Accutane. I asked about a referral to an endocrinologist as well. I said I'd like to do what I can to get to the root cause of it b/c it's SO BAD. If there's no underlying cause, if they run everything they can think of and nothing is "wrong" then maybe this is just my lot in life. I don't know. But I want to be aggressive in searching for an answer and a course of action.
(and on top of that my cholesterol is thru the roof and they found a slight heart murmur--my parents and brother all have heart issues so off for an echo I go next Thursday)