> I have been asking this question for a month on this site and
haven't
> gotten any good answers. The doctor took 45 minutes
> of her time to talk to me without charge and asked for info on Dr.
> Nase. I gave her his website and told her about his book. But Dr.
> Nase has been rather silent on this subject of people being made
> worse from IPL treatments as there have been several posts on this
> recently. I'm wondering why.---

Hello,

I am sorry to hear about your response to this treatment. You ask
why I have not responded lately -- you will notice that I have been
out of town for quite some time. Please allow me to catch up and I
will suggest a few tests. Your innuendo does not inspire me to
reply, so please keep that in mind when posting to anyone. Type
while brain neurons are active.

BTW, I was burned with the pulse dye laser by the Chair of the Dept.
of Dermatology at U. of Pittsburg. I was in the burn unit for two
days and had to wear special burn moistened gauze for 21 days. My
face was a mess, even worse than my severe symptoms to begin with.
But, my face recovered solely due to photoderm treatments which I
was scared to death of having performed. You get burned once and
you never forget. So, the skin has an amazing capacity for healing
and many frustrated posters will regain normal tone and possibly
improve with more time.

If you followed my posts before I left, I did mention the best route
to take for this adverse reaction -- I strongly suggested that those
sufferers who experienced redder skin after three or four treatments
(not just one as this is very common) -- the doctor should perform 6
to eight patch tests to determine your skin's best energy level,
pulse duration and pulse delay (they usually due this for free).
Then re-evaluate. If this does not work out, the 590 filter is the
best fail safe filter to use. You can use this in the one pulse
mode and long pulse durations.

This post was mainly for Amanda. Your chances for full recovery are
excellent based on tens of thousands of rosacea treatments. I would
sincerely suggest that you actually continue (I know it does not
make sense now), but they just need to find the sweet spot. If this
does not work, then the V-beam with a moderate level of 4 to 5
joules could be very beneficial. In my eight years of analysis and
treatment of patients, you dont stop because the face becomes
redder, the physician learns from this and adapts to find a better
treatment parameter. You also should rarely consider stopping
treatment if transient blisters appear as they always go away and
rarely (less than 1% leave any scar). The only time to stop is if
you are burned and this does not happen with photoderm, it only
happens with the pulsed dye lasers.


Geoffrey
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Dr. Geoffrey Nase
Ph.D. Neurovascular Physiologist
http://www.drnase.com
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> support@yahoogroups.com, "alatkins33" <alatkins33@y...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Oh Wise Dr. Nase----
> >
> > For those of us who are now questioning our decision to have
gone
> > through with the IPL treatments, is there any hope that over
time
> > our skin will normalize? Or is whatever damage that was
inflicted
> > permanent? I think I was a victim of the surface vessels being
> > aggravated instead of eliminated.
> >
> > I am so reactive now it is absurd and I feel like my hope is
> > slipping away with the worsening of my face.
> >
> > Any words of advice on this, pretty, pretty please?
> >
> > Amanda in Atlanta