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[irock_555]

I am so glad to hear that it worked for you. However, I have mild/severe acne and decided to get the same treatment. My family spent alot of money on three treatments. I talked to the lady who was doing the treatment and she made me feel very confident that it would work. She even said that "she would be my new best friend" I got very excited thinking that something was finally gunna work. Unforntunately there was absolutely no difference. At first I thought I just had to give it time. It has been about a month and a half since I got it done and it has not changed one bit. I just want to know if it's worth giving another shot or why it didn't work on me. I can't believe I spent time, money, and lots of pain with no result.
Hope that it is still working for you though.

[TaLima]

I am so glad to hear that it worked for you. However, I have mild/severe acne and decided to get the same treatment. My family spent alot of money on three treatments. I talked to the lady who was doing the treatment and she made me feel very confident that it would work. She even said that "she would be my new best friend" I got very excited thinking that something was finally gunna work. Unforntunately there was absolutely no difference. At first I thought I just had to give it time. It has been about a month and a half since I got it done and it has not changed one bit. I just want to know if it's worth giving another shot or why it didn't work on me. I can't believe I spent time, money, and lots of pain with no result.
Hope that it is still working for you though.

Don’t congratulate me just yet. I think my eyes are trying to see what i wish would be a change. But no I can’t say that my back is ready for a halter top. I can say that I don’t have a cluster of bumps on my back anymore, but the scaring and the dark spots from where the acne bumps were are still there .

With the Radiance peel, I didn’t see any signs of dead skin and it wasn’t as itchy as the other peel. I’m not sure what it really did for $90.

So far, I spent $432 in 2 visits . Like I said before, she wants to continue chemical peels which are $300 but she said since I will be a regular, I would only be charge $260 (I think). Either way, that’s a lot of $$ over time. And the down time is what kills me. It looks like ever 3 wks. With that time frame, if I continue to go back, will take me all year, a whole ton of $$, and I would hope it’s done by next summer.

Im just a little confused because before I started treatment, another employee there was showing me before and after photos of people that received the same treatment I’m on and the time frame was 14wks and they had dramatic results. Maybe that was because that was their face and not back. I don’t know.

After I go back next Wednesday and see what she has to say regarding treatment and $$, I will make my decision whether I need to try looking for my own home treatments.

[Rosemerry]

I usually don't go and bash products that don't work, but trying Isolaz was a horrible decision. My dermatologist told me I'd be a great candidate for her new Isolaz treatments. I was weary of the price, but she assured me that it would clear up my skin. I successfully cleared my acne in high school, but it came back during college, along my cheek bones. Before I started Isolaz, I had a couple of blemishes on my upper-cheek area basically every day.. but it was a case of relatively light acne. However, the treatments caused me to break out in places that hadn't broken out in years -- my chin, the lower half of my cheeks, along my jawline, and on my forehead. My dermatologist told me that everything was just coming to the surface, and lead me to believe that it would eventually stop. I had five treatments. However, it has been six weeks since stopping treatments and in these six weeks, my acne has been worse than ever. I've tried Retin-A (at my dermatologist's suggestion), a drugstore benzoyl peroxide, and have just started to use Epiduo again (which worked in high school). Before the Isolaz treatments, I was only breaking out along my cheekbones. After, I am consistently breaking out on the whole cheek area and jawline, and sometimes on my forehead and chin. And now, I have whiteheads all over my cheeks, which I didn't have before Isolaz. I am convinced that these treatments somehow activated acne in placed I hadn't seen breakouts before. And, to make matters worse, it was ridiculously expensive. My derm recommended five treatments at $170 each. I wish I could get back my money and my skin prior to Isolaz treatments (even with my minor breakouts). Horrible mistake.

Edited by Rosemerry, 07 August 2011 - 08:09 PM.

[wornsmiff]

Do not recommend Isolaz! My name is Warren, I'm 30 years old and I've had serious acne since I was a teenager. I was a regular at the dermatologist since I was a kid getting many different prescriptions that never really amounted to anything. I first heard about accutane when I was aroung 16 and I begged for it every time I went to the doctor with no avail. I was always told that it was too dangerous and that I shouldn't be so concerned with my acne because it wasn't life threatening. Guess they didn't realize that the depression acne can cause would result in two suicide attempts. So basically my only option was to subscribe to Proactiv extra strength, which as far as peroxide soaps go is really nice, but anyone with real acne knows is far from a cure. Then in 2009 I found a website that sells accutane from India. Yes I was really scared to spend the money and trust what I was gonna put in my body, but I was starting another downward spiral so I gave it a shot. After two to three weeks of treatment my skin was completely clear. I became a whole new person. My personality changed completely, I made all kinds of new friends and I was just genuinely happy and at peace with the world. I used it for three months and it's completely changed my skin to the point that it will never be as bad as it was. But since it's been a long time since I've had any accutane I've started to get breakouts again, nothing like before accutane but still, gross. So, I heard about Isolaz and I fell for the advertizements and thought it would be a good alternative to harmful antibiotics, wrong! First it's not pain free, it's a vacuum with a tazer on it. And second all it really does is exfoliate your skin, thats it! Get an over the counter microderm abrasion kit and save yourself some serious money. If you're someone with serious acne that you know isn't going to just go away someday, don't fool yourself like I did. It's a gimic. If it really was what they claim everyone would know about it, right? Find a doctor that will give you accutane or something that will give you real results. And if you cannot, the website is 4rx.com. I'm gonna do one more round of treatment to kill my little mild case I have now, the case Isolaz can't touch, and be done forever. But please, if you do treat yourself like I am, do your reasearch! It is a serious drug with serious side effects and needs to be taken the right way. Good luck to you all.

[pat12345]

adultacne1913, on 15 May 2008 - 05:21 PM, said:

i'm a black female (medium brown complexion), 34 years old. my first experience w/acne occurred shortly after 9/11/01. since that time, i've deveoped cystic acne and haven't been able to shake it. primarily the acne is located on my cheeks and chin. every once in a while, i'll get them on my forehead. as a youngster, i had the occasional pimple, which would come and go on its own. i feel like the guinea pig for acne, as i've tried just about everything, except accutane. ironically, i went to the derm about 4 months ago and was all set to give accutane a try. lo and behold, life happened and i decided against it, based entirely on the side effects.

i remember seeing an ad for isolaz and decided to look into it. unfortunately, all of the info seemed based on non-black women. i figured what the heck and went for it anyway, especially since there seemed to be minimal to no side effects and a 85-90 percent success rate. i had my first treatment on 5.5.08. thus far, no improvement. my skin is extremely oily. i no longer use any lotion on my face, as i think it makes my acne worse. next isolaz treatment is scheduled for 5.27.08. any black women on this forum, who have tried isolaz? if so, what has been your experience?

I have suffered from acne as a black woman for the past 15 years which has been extremley humiliating and embarassing. I have tried several different treatments over the years some which have worked for a while, my acne has flared up again over the last couple of months and a top West End clinic advised me to try the Isolaz laser treatment. It was the worse treatment for me I have ever experienced. I had only 2 treatments and after the second decided not to continue. After the first treament my skin felt rough and dull, it was ok for the first two days but then I started to break out on the cheek area drastically. I thought I would have the next treatment a week or so later, again after two days I broke out even worse and suffered huge patches of cystic acne which I havent had never had before to that extent. My skin was worse now than before I started the treatment. I was even more depressed and withdrawn. The clinic were not much help in the situation and just said this can sometime cause more spots to appear because it was cleaning out the skin, however I was not convinced that my skin should look much worse. I decided to stop treatment to suffer further and my skin is more scarred up that it was before the laser treamtent. I changed back to Agera peel after that. I really regret trying this treatment at £200 a time even though they offered me a discount to do it at £60 a time. Dont think this is suitable for darker skin.