27-11-2014, 06:41 PM
The second day started at 8:30am. I had 12 hours of electrolysis left in my package which it was felt should be more than enough to finish up by 3:00p when Dr. Z was leaving for the day.
They put me through the same preparations as the first day. I was instructed to put on a gown and then seated in the reclining chair. My face and neck were cleaned with alcohol, and the prescription lidocaine numbing ointment applied to what was left of my beard. She needed less to cover the remaining hair, so it didn't have as great an overall affect.
The medical tech inserted the IV drip, and the doctor administered the sedation. Again I got really spacey, and the doc injected me with lidocaine/vaso-constrictor at several locations around the bearded portions of my face and neck. Soon I was ready to go. It took 7 hours in the chair to finish clearing my chin and neck, again with two techs working on me.
I presented as a mix of feminine and masculine both days, but they always called me by my preferred name (Clara) and used the female pronouns. They tried to make me as comfortable as possible at all times. If I needed a break, we took one.
It looked like we were going to go over the package 30 hours because the hair on my chin was so dense, so we skipped lunch to make sure the doctor would be around when more lidocaine was needed. I had to have a couple more lidocaine injections to get through to the end. Again, I took them without sedation (what's wrong with me???), but they weren't quite as painful as the day before. That's really the only painful part about volume hair removal when done this way. It's the only way to go, IMO.
Over the two days, my face handled the trauma of being subjected to an estimated 35,000 needle pokes and double microwave pulses pretty well. There was not much redness or secretion (except in the chin area where follicles where density packed). I had no lifting of the skin (blistering). I had moderate swelling in the lower face and neck. My lips were enlarged as well, but not grossly so (some clients are able to see their own lips due to swelling - yikes!).
It's strange to run my hand over my face and not feel any whisker stubble at all. My face will be back to normal in less than a week. At day three of my recovery, the swelling was already way down.
I expect that 25 to 50% of the hairs will have been killed in this first clearing. The kill rate depends on the skill of the electrologist and my own physiology. On the second and subsequent clearings, the kill rate is even higher if the clearing is done at the optimal 6-week time interval. If I allow those new growth 'baby hairs' to grow strong before hitting them again, it will reduce the kill rate substantially.
I've scheduled my next session for January 8, roughly six weeks from now, and I anticipate needing, at most, the one day 23 hour package instead of the two day 30 hour package.
After the 4th clearing, 90 to 95% of my face and neck hair should be permanently removed at an accumulated cost of about $10,000. Yeah, not cheap, but that's accomplished in just 6 months, it's painless, and it's permanent. The remaining hair can be cleaned up with regular short visits to my neighborhood electrologist over the course of another 6 months or so at about $75 and hour.
More to come....
They put me through the same preparations as the first day. I was instructed to put on a gown and then seated in the reclining chair. My face and neck were cleaned with alcohol, and the prescription lidocaine numbing ointment applied to what was left of my beard. She needed less to cover the remaining hair, so it didn't have as great an overall affect.
The medical tech inserted the IV drip, and the doctor administered the sedation. Again I got really spacey, and the doc injected me with lidocaine/vaso-constrictor at several locations around the bearded portions of my face and neck. Soon I was ready to go. It took 7 hours in the chair to finish clearing my chin and neck, again with two techs working on me.
I presented as a mix of feminine and masculine both days, but they always called me by my preferred name (Clara) and used the female pronouns. They tried to make me as comfortable as possible at all times. If I needed a break, we took one.
It looked like we were going to go over the package 30 hours because the hair on my chin was so dense, so we skipped lunch to make sure the doctor would be around when more lidocaine was needed. I had to have a couple more lidocaine injections to get through to the end. Again, I took them without sedation (what's wrong with me???), but they weren't quite as painful as the day before. That's really the only painful part about volume hair removal when done this way. It's the only way to go, IMO.
Over the two days, my face handled the trauma of being subjected to an estimated 35,000 needle pokes and double microwave pulses pretty well. There was not much redness or secretion (except in the chin area where follicles where density packed). I had no lifting of the skin (blistering). I had moderate swelling in the lower face and neck. My lips were enlarged as well, but not grossly so (some clients are able to see their own lips due to swelling - yikes!).
It's strange to run my hand over my face and not feel any whisker stubble at all. My face will be back to normal in less than a week. At day three of my recovery, the swelling was already way down.
I expect that 25 to 50% of the hairs will have been killed in this first clearing. The kill rate depends on the skill of the electrologist and my own physiology. On the second and subsequent clearings, the kill rate is even higher if the clearing is done at the optimal 6-week time interval. If I allow those new growth 'baby hairs' to grow strong before hitting them again, it will reduce the kill rate substantially.
I've scheduled my next session for January 8, roughly six weeks from now, and I anticipate needing, at most, the one day 23 hour package instead of the two day 30 hour package.
After the 4th clearing, 90 to 95% of my face and neck hair should be permanently removed at an accumulated cost of about $10,000. Yeah, not cheap, but that's accomplished in just 6 months, it's painless, and it's permanent. The remaining hair can be cleaned up with regular short visits to my neighborhood electrologist over the course of another 6 months or so at about $75 and hour.
More to come....