Beauty

[MarenSeattle]

On 5/8/2014 lyn in MI said:

On 5/8/2014 wackers said:

On 5/8/2014 lyn in MI said: - What they said!

TOO CUTE!!!

BTW lyn - how are your precious kitties? They are some of the most gorgeous cats I've ever seen. Just thinking about them when I saw this cute pic and wanted to ask. Hope all is well.

wackers - they are all doing well. Today is claw-clipping day, so DH and I have 24 paws to take care of by day's end.

When you've finished with your crew, could you swing by Seattle and tackle my Mossimo? Get Last Rights before you come, though.

[GLAMMA]

I am in the middle of my 5th week. My face is still red after treatments. Prior to using the TRIA I would go every 6 months for a treatment at the Dr.'s office for the rebuilding of collagen so I may have seen results quicker than others. I am doing the 5 days a week with two off for 12 weeks and am glad I did this as the side effects of dry skin and discoloration was minimal. That being said, after I completed the 4th week and not doing it for 2 days I realized that my face had certainly tightened and my neck too. I was unable to grab any skin on my cheeks and my neck looked incredible. Again, I don't know if this was because of previous treatments. Perhaps the Tria gave a boost to what I had already been doing, I really don't know, however, I do know this, the price of the Tria is less then 1 treatment at the Dr.'s office and the results are amazing. At this point I think I am done going to doctor's office for more treatments.

[MarenSeattle]

On 5/8/2014 PA Gurl said: Thanks for the thread but that's not it. It was the one where the girls were on the 8/4 or whatever. There were a lot of good postings that were on there. At this point I'm thinking my face looks not good. 4 weeks.. Thanks for your post . I'll keep watching but at this point I don't know if I am going thru the uglies or is this it. I did notice people saying they were getting such fantastic results they couldn't wait to see how they look at the end of the 90 days. That is definitely not me. I don't know if I should continue or am I doing damage. I haven't really seen any post that said they have the uglies yet at 4 weeks out.

ALL the threads have posters who are on 8/4. You'll probably just have to slog through them all again, or try to remember how long ago you read it and zero in on that time frame. Just put Tria - Week in the search bar, and all of them should come up.

BTW, I'm 5-ish weeks in, too, and the past few nights I've become more red and my skin feels more "attacked" than in the earlier weeks. I decided to stop with my usual skin care stuff tonight after my treatment, and just put some soothing CeraVe lotion on . I'm not sure if there's an improvement then "no more uglies" or if it's kind of a wave - now you have it, now you don't ?

But as 5pugmom said, the improvement comes during the recovery period. When one gets a professional laser treatment there's a period of "ugly" but then the recovery begins and the changes start becoming apparent. I'm looking at this as an 8 week l-o-n-g treatment, then the cease and desist to let the collagen do its thing.

As always, just my interpretation and as always, I may be way off kilter in my thinking.

[PA Gurl]

Thanks guys,I did find the old thread. I'm glad to hear other people are having there ups and downs too. I have only see the down. I kid you not I pulled down my visor in the parking lot before heading in to work and I thought aye yay yay you look baaaad. That's what has me concerned is I know there are treatments that you look bad before you look good, but I just don't know if I can go thru 8 weeks of looking like this. I know if u have like a carbon laser that actually burs the skin off, but that's a different method. My skin actually looks worse than when I started. I feel the lines are more pronounced and the discoloration is worse! I even have lines where I didn't have lines, like the marionette. Where in Gods name did they come from. I am going to be on my 2 day off period for the weekend and we'll see how that goes. I'm going to try and research to find out if this is normal. Someone mentioned they had fraxel, did u go thru a period of your skin looking bad before it looked good and if so how long did it take? I really appreciate all of your feedback. It's great to be able to compare notes and I'll let u guys know if I find out anything else. Thanks so much!

[MarenSeattle]

Everything you've mentioned -- wrinkles from nowhere, discoloration, even sandpaper skin, have been experienced and mentioned. I actually thought my skin would look far worse than it does, so I'm kind of relieved! :-). I'm willing to go through 8 weeks of redness and dryness (which is all I'm experiencing now - the sandpaper is gone) if at the end of the treatments I get longer term results. But it's an individual thing, and I imagine just how bad your skin looks (or how much you care) are contributing factors on whether or not to continue.

You say you found the old "thread" -- but there are 5 of them chronicling results and experiences week by week. Tria - Week 1, Tria - Week 2, and so on.