If your desperate to get rid of your acne, save up for this. It works! It has helped my self esteem dramatically, it is well worth the price if you can afford it.

Great product. Well affordable. Great Results!

the cost, the week of peeling and redness is worth having absolutely beautiful skin. would recommend over any other treatment for acne and i've literally tried them all.

i suffered with acne when i was a young adult and was left with minor scarring - going into the peri-menopause years i began getting white bumps underneath my skin i thought great here it goes again!!! I consulted with a dermatologist and he recommended the levulan and blue light therapy - I had my first treatment a month ago and just yesterday had my second treatment - there's no doubt you're housebound for a couple of day, it's almost depressing because your so red, but after a couple of days you start seeing improvements even with the peeling that is happening- and as time goes on face starts looking better and better- i feel it's worth trying because of the positive results i've seen - for those that haven't been happy with this treatment i hope you find something that works because acne is not easy to live with and for us that have it know this only to well. Good Luck

This treatment is only beneficial to people with mild to moderate inflammatory acne and should not be used to treat cystic or severe acne. If your derm is suggesting that it will, get a new derm. Seriously. It also not 100% quaranteed to clear up your skin. There are stats available if you google it but I think it's something like 70% of treated patients experience total clearing. What I noticed about some peoples posts that they were getting a really high number of treatments and that possibly there were treated with the Clear Light, which is a weaker version of the Blu-U. 3 treatments is about standard for most people, with some people having to do some additional treatments. All in all I was happy with my treatment and my skin is pretty much acne free with some minor very small pimples every once in awhile.

I really want to warn people with acne-prone, sensitive skin NOT to consider this treatment. I received two ALA photodynamic therapy treatments about two months apart; the last one I received about 5 months ago. I would NOT recommend this treatment to anyone, and especially not anyone with sensitive skin, because the first and second treatment did nothing to help my acne, and the second treatment caused me to break out into hundreds of itchy, red bumps, infected pustules, and painful cysts across the lower half of my face, which led to pitted scarring. The treatments seemed to stimulate the formation of cystic acne in places I never before experienced cystic acne, such as my forehead, which also resulted in permanent scarring. I actually did not previously have skin that would easily scar, but after this treatment, my skin was more sensitive and prone to scarring. I am not sure why, but once the peeling process began with the second treatment (about 4 days in), my skin erupted into a terrible break out around my mouth, on my chin, and across my jaw like nothing I've ever experienced before. My dermatologist (who only emailed me in response to my concern) thought it was a "purging" effect, and I only wish I had gone to see someone else sooner because the reaction actually wasn't normal. After a month of dealing with a severe infection that I foolishly thought was "purging" and that I hoped would subside on its own, I finally went to see a different derm who prescribed me antibiotics. It cleared up in two weeks on the minocycline I was prescribed. I really wish I had gone on the antibiotics sooner. Since then, I have been treating my skin with Differin cream which has cleared up my skin and improved the hyperpigmentation from scarring. Unfortunately, I am left with many boxcar and shallow icepick scars, though they have improved slightly over time. I am hoping over the next year I will see more improvement. Since my scars are quite shallow, I hope that at some point they won't hardly be noticeable. I am considering getting acne scar treatments once a year has passed from my initial infection (since scar formation and healing can take about a year). I give this treatment ONE star because it can possibly be effective at facial rejuvenation. Some parts of my face responded well (upper forehead) and looked brighter and more uniform afterward. However, the majority of the parts of my treated skin did not respond well at all and made my skin more acne- and scar-prone than before. Please, do not waste your money. There have not been enough research trials to confirm that this as an effective method at treating acne for the majority of patients.

overall good outcome

I had 6 treatments with the levulan, and it improved pores, oilyness and scarring. However, I still break out, and in some areas even more severely than before I started the treatments one year ago. I know of a clinic that stopped offering Levulan because they found it was not very effective and I would have to say that they are good for doing this and not trying to suck money out of everyone. Sadly, IMHO avoid it, at least if you have moderate-severe acne.

Had Luvian on face for 15 minutes and blue light for ten minutes. Noticed acne decreasing over night. Pores and acne shrinking. Skin continues to heal everyday, even months after first treatment.

I had several bouts of Efudex treatment for AK's and it works, but there's a week to 10 days of face looking like hamburger meat. So dermatologist said this was the better way to go. Was told "some" people experience redness. Since my face didn't appear red right after the treatment I thot I would escape this side effect. Holy cow! Was I surprised! So, the verdict is not yet in for me. If the treatment does all it's supposed to do...well, maybe it's a good thing but patients really need to be better prepared for the side effects.