Originally Posted by sallyn

i had five treatments done on my whole face. to put it simply, my experience was not a good one. to begin with, they told me it would take up to four treatments and after five treatments, i still had hair.

i was also devastated about shaving my face. it sucked. i felt completely defeated and like i should join the circus. anyways, you can also use depilitories in the interim (just not immediately before or after the treatment). i mean that's what they told me and they're also the people that told me it would take only four treatments and i am still sporting my hair after five! not only that, but it was a bit painful for a split second. i didn't care about that because i can tolerate pain pretty well, especially if it means never having to deal with hair again. but what bothered me during the treatment was that i could smell the hair burning...that was not cool, lol.

okay, the aspect of laser that i disliked the most was that my hair actually got worse afterwards. i doubt that it's because of the laser, being that it wasn't immediately after and because my pcos symptoms really kicked in a lot more around the same time this happened. the doctors think it must be new growth, which sort of makes sense to me.

another thing i was bothered by was that i had to be very careful of sun exposure. i started my treatments in april when spring was underway and summer was coming. that put a bit of a damper on things for me a bit.

all that said, i intend to start treatments again in the winter. i'm thinking between the pcos treatments and a better awareness that laser isn't the miracle it seems like it would have been, it'll go okay for me. g'luck with it.