If anything, people will think you just bit your lip or took to much skin off or at worst a cold sore in the healing phases.
If these bother you as much as you say they do, and your want to be healed, take a week off from work. OR be honest, say your having a small procedure performed and you need to work from home for a few days.
Up to you in the end if you want to get rid of them.
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I had three big ones and then a lot of small clusters, the biggest spot being front and center on the top lip (all of mine are on the top). It was also much longer than wider and would fill with so much oil that I felt lilke it was a pimple ready to explode. It was raised and I was constantly licking it.
That one and the other large ones are completely gone now after doing TCA 50% three times on them, the last TCA application being 4 months ago.
I still have a LOT of small ones and a few medium sized ones that I may try the acid on but honestly, they dont bother me and I, myself, dont even notice unless I stretch my lips close in the mirror.
Hope this helps! I cant stress enough how much the TCA 50% peel helped along with the Tazorac 0.1%. And I also do all the other things too that I mentioned a few posts back (keep my mouth and lips clean, wash the lips each day with a face cleanser, eat healthy, try to exercise, drink a lot of water, take a multivitamin, etc)
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Alright, I'm sorry ive been gone for awhile. So the 25% didnt do much the first try and I haven't teied again because in going through one of the good periods where they are basically invisible. They seem to fluctuate between being completely invisible and being so bad I dont want to leave the house. If they stay how they are now then I'll probably wait to do anything else to be honest. They plastic surgeon I went to was awesome and said that he did a lot of research and has the laser that I mentioned (the one DM recommends) and that he is willing to try. He said he would use two different lasers amd is confident it would work. Only drawback is that it will be 2 appointmemts at $250 each lol so I'm waiting until ive got some money put up or until I absolutely can't take it anymore... Whichever comes first. I actually quit the Retin-A for the blast 7-8 days because my lips feel like they are healing and I think the new skin growong over the spots is covering then up nicely. I think that they will come back out over time but for now I'm gonna stick with this.
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The log book will let you see what days were bad, and then you can look back at the previous few days or weeks to see if something happened out of the ordinary.
Im telling, try the 50% before spending $500 on laser treatments. Like I mentioned before, I have had both and would still with the 50% TCA and then apply Tazorac every few days.
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I think when people hear "Acid" they are getting scared but you tried the 25% and saw that the effects weren't bad and that you need something stronger.
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TCA 50% applied (as described above) along with 0.10% Tazorac is turning out to be a very long-lasting solution with minimal effort, barely any downtime (if any) and zero scarring.
The feeling I had after doing this procedure was incredible and it just kept getting better as time went on because the spots were NOT coming back. That horrible self-conscious feeling we can all relate to is completely gone, confidence is back, and I feel more positive about life.
Please, please, let's keep trying stuff but if you do try one thing, try the 50% TCA and tazorac method (change up the other bad lifestyle habits too!).
_DM
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- I'm gonna order my 50% TCA today. Money has been tight so I've been holdimg off. Time to hit these things
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