Acne - NLite & skin peels

From Wilmington, NC, 15 posts

Hey Anna,

I am so sorry about your experience. Did the NLITE seem to have made your scars worse & the texture of your skin more rough & somewhat aged looking. I had 2 session about 1 month apart around November & December of 06 & my skin has been TERRIBLE ever since. It was presented to me as a miracle with no possible adverse reactions. I actually went in to get info about the Blue Peel and the acestician pushed the NLITE on me, because the Blue Peel is $500.00 & the NLITE is $1,200.00.

So tell me more about your new therapy. I'm getting ready to go on Accutane, even though I have very very mild acne and then I have to wait 6 months after my treatment to do any scar recision surgery. But I need something.

4 posts

Anna is me! I sent the original post a year ago now! Wow!
I went ahead with N-Lite and it was a complete waste of time and money! If anything it made it worse! I was not told that it might not be sucessful, and when it wasn't the clinic couldn't have given any less of a damn! I also saw the dermatoligist from this clinic and she was also very expensive and not much help! She never returned my calls or replied to my letters after my first consultation.
I have now being seeing a homeopath since October and she has helped me beyond belief. If this is something anyone believes in or thinks could work should go for it!
Thanks for your messages!

Anna

From Wilmington, NC, 15 posts

Hey, sorry about the Anna thing, it was in response to the first message, which was like 2 years ago...do never mind that one.

Anyways, I do wear makeup & like I said on my last post, I have read the posts of a lot of people on Acne.org & most have the same results as mine. My skin looks terrible that I will have to have surgery to rectify the damage. You know its bad when the aecetician fees so bad that she offers you free treatments.

I'm starting Accutane on April 20th so I cannot do anything about my skin until 6 month after my treatment stops, but I'm telling you, please go to Acne.org & read the posts on NLITE and all kinds of other treatments.

Good luck!

From Portsmouth, 5 posts

Hello who's anna?( IS THAT ME YOU MEAN'T) never-mind!!

I'm sorry to hear of your trouble with NLITE, u've totally put me off. WHY ARE THESE TREATMENTS ALLOWED ON THE MARKET IN THE FIRST PLACE? I was seroiusly thinking about having a chemical peel a TCA medium one and I've started to think otherwise about it now. The risks involved may well only affect a small proportion, but what if it' s YOU?!

i FEEL INCLINED to by-pass all these treatments and the risks. I do also think that the 'psychological'
impact is under HUGELY estimated of ACNE and how it makes you feel inside. We are ALL vulnerable in a society that places enormous IMPORTANCE to be flawless. AND acne sufferers SUFFER AS A result.

Do you wear make-up?

From Wilmington, NC, 15 posts

Anna what ever you do, DO NOT go for the NLITE, it ruined my skin. I've had a acne for a long time but used to have good tone, however since the NLITE my skin is saggy, larger pores than ever & all my scars have become more depressed. Go to ACNE.ORG , an AWESOME acne site that has much more information than this, go to MESSAGE BOARDS, CLICK ON LASTER TREATMENTS & AT THE BOTTOM TYPE NLITE and read all the stories on there. Many are like mine, not to mention there are extremely expensive so docs are pushing them, that is what happened to me.

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From Portsmouth, 5 posts

hello there!



I have been reading your success of Nlite, I'm quite excited to hear that it could work for me. I have quite pitted skin, from acne, particularly on one-side of my face on one of my cheeks. I am 25 now, and have felt particularly self-conscientious about it for some time now. I find that harsh lighting in toilets and often changing rooms, leaves me feeling anxious and very self aware. I really want to do something about it, it seems to be ruining my life. Fortunately, I no longer suffer from acne but do have the scar's to prove it (not nice). I occassionally get spotty and have quite greasy skin around run down/hormoney days.



Can anyone reccommend a good clinic and has anyone heard whether it can be done on NHS?

From London, 8 posts

Hi i've had N-LITE, which is expensive (£200 per session and they usually reccomend you go for 3!) however it was worth it as it worked for me, i think it would be good for you as you sound like you're a long term sufferer of acne. it doesnt work straight away though, my skin got worse after the second session because it causes an inflamatory responce in the skin, basically it brings all your spots to the surface before it clears your skin, it also boosts collagen to help smooth out marks. i only saw results after the third and final session. i think its currently the best thing around for acne as chemical peels and other facials are mainly for scars and are too harsh your active acne, but do your research to find what is best for you. though N-LITE is a very good treatment for clearing and preventing acne, it is NO MIRACLE. hope this helps, sabina

From Wilmington, NC, 15 posts

I am 29 years old & have had very mild acne most of my life but for the past 5 years it has been mild to severe. I have had blue light & red light treatments & have been on several different antibiotics, most the topical creams (prescriptions & non) & many different peels including the NLITE. Most helped some for a little while but the NLITE did nothing for me. I had it about 3 months ago & it cost me $1,200. Not only did it not help with my acne it actually made my skin much much worse, something I was never even told that could happen. I was told that optimal results are achieved 3 months after the treatment & now my skin has progressively got worse. Immediately after my treatment I had 7 more cystic acne form on my face, my skin is rougher & pores seem more saggy. It also seemed to deepen the look of older & more suppressed scars. I am now on Evolution X vitamins that stop oil (just started & seems my oil is not as bad) & will probably be trying the Obagi Blue Peel soon. I also found and awesome website regarding skin biology, focusing on acne & acne scars & will be trying some of their products as well (http://www.scar-reduction.com/). In my many years of trying many different products, I honestly think that NLITE was the most expensive & the least effective with negative results. I hope this helps.

From London, 8 posts

Hi I'm 21, and i only started getting acne acne 3 months ago which has been progressively getting worse, now its turned to severe acne, and nothing seemed to help, apart from the antiseptic cream Savlon on my existing spots, i think it's preventing new spots from coming up too, but i don't want to speak too soon, but its a great product for sensitive skin. i am currently having n-lite done, no difference yet, but will let you know, kind of hoping that would make a significant improvement considering how expensive it is! however I'm more concerned about the cause of this sudden outbreak I've had, can you tell me more about PCOS, and do you necessarily have to have all the symptoms associated with it, because i have none really? & also how do you get tested for it? because i refuse to believe that stress would cause such severe acne all of a sudden, as my doctor likes to think...

From Wokingham, Berkshire, 1 post

Originally posted by melissa76 on 24 Nov 2005 8:43 PM
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HI Mellisa, I am 25 and have also had acne since 16. I've also been on dianette, but my doctor stopped prescribing it to me because of a high risk of breast cancer from using it for longer than two years. I then carried on with a pill called cileste, which prevented my acne, but not as well as dianette used to. I am now no longer on the pill, as I am trying for a baby. I too have tried a number of different diets and am having a treatment called microdermabrasion, this works well for scar but unfortunately doesn't prevent the acne from coming back. I was however planning on looking into N-lite and this is how I came across your article. I started searching on the interenet about PCOS and came across tablets that are normally treated for peple with diabeties, but can however be used by individuals who suffer from PCOS acne. These tablets are called Metformin (Glucophage) and you can buy them from a website called drugstore.com. They seem like they have other good benfits such as controlling your weight, regular periods and a reduction in testosterone and glucose levels, which both contribute to acne. I think I might give these tablets a go as my periods are all over the place. ( I think I too have pcos acne. ) I hope this article helps, I know how it feels to have suffered from acne for so long. One more question how did you get tested for PCOS acne? I too would like to get tested for that, cheers Shandy