2nd photofacial

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Hi All!!

Had my 2nd photofacial on Thursday. She increased the energy a bit so I

felt the pulses alot more, but nothing painful. I already notice the

results. My pores are way samaller and I would say the reduction of

redness is about 40%. I have had a couple of flushes but it was

expected. I am very pleased with the results so far and I still have

six more treatments to go. For you guys who wanted to know about

Spamedica I really recommend it.

Does anyone know of a really good self tanner (one that doesn't turn you

orange)

After all these treatments I am definitly not going to bake in the sun

like I used to.

Thanks,

Jody

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Hi,

I just wanted to let everyone know how I'm doing.

For the past six months I've had lots of flushing,

papules and pimples all over my chin, jaw, and the

area between mouth and nose charmingly described as

naso-labial folds. Some of you may remember that the

breakout coincided with two things: using Renova for

cosmetic reasons, and changing to a higher-profile

job.

My derm thought that Renova had triggered the

breakouts.

Well, I've been carefully extrapolating from the

group's information (as well as some of my own), and I

recently look much better. Here's whats been helping

-- in the order that they've helped. It's like each

item is a brick in the process)...

1. Taking a good B complex vitamin

2. Adding 50 mg. of zinc every night

3. Minocyclin (I'm not certain this has helped in the

general scheme of things and I'm going off of it when

my month is up... I'll keep you posted)

4. Accupuncture and the herbal prescription from my

accupuncturist (visible reduction in paps and

inflammation after first treatment)

5. Florasone, a topical anti-inflammatory homeopathic

cream you can buy at a health food store. The label

describes it as natural cortisone, but says it doesn't

thin skin or create the nasty problems that arise with

steroids.

6. Washing my face with pure, ground oatmeal (great

suggestion fellow list-member!)

7. Dr. Haushka's Rythmic Conditioner, Sensitive.

(Expensive, looks like it should be hogwash, but seems

to work. Has lessened my dependency on creams.)

8. Dr. Hauska's Rose Day Cream, a great moisturizer.

9. Vigorous, hot exercise (at the advice of my

accupuncturist). My face actually looks better after a

hot yoga class.

10. Hot and cold rinses in the shower (see #9).

11. Reevaluating my previous skincare routine and

guess what? The expensive night cream I'd been using

(La Mer), which is touted as " healing " and good for

rosacea (in the Bliss catalog) was making me breakout.

I had started using it with the Renova six months ago

to counteract the initial dryness and peeling that

comes with the Renova. I can't believe I went this

long without connecting the two!!!

12. Now that I've smoothed out, I'm back to using

Renova to smooth out the red marks left by the

breakouts. It seems to be helping.

13. Heavy re-evaluation of my diet. More water (room

temp., not cold, as per accupuncturist), and I'm

finding that wheat is behind much of my flushing and

complaints (especially the after-lunch flushing). I

already knew I was allergic to foods in the nightshade

family and have avoided them for years... but wheat?

If a nutritionist friend hadn't suggested it, I would

never have checked it out. After a wheat-free week,

each of two forays into wheat was followed by

stuffiness, flushing, and sneezing.

14. Moving my desk, which used to face a major service

panel, to the other side of the room. The panel was

emitting EMFs strong enough to disrupt my computer

monitor, and I felt it increased my flushing.

I hope someone finds something useful in here. Suzi

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[Guest guest]

Suzi,

I just wanted to say thank you for posting your routine of what's

been helpful to you. I printed it out and will try them.

Continued success to you!!

Ann