Doctor Removed His Age Spots and Freckles — Transcript

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1. 0:00So, here's my experience with getting
2. 0:01IPL treatment that took my skin from
3. 0:03looking like this to looking like this.
4. 0:05And during my two treatments, there were
5. 0:06a couple of curve balls that I wish I
6. 0:08knew before starting the treatment. So,
7. 0:09if you are considering IPL treatments,
8. 0:11hopefully you can avoid the mistakes
9. 0:12that I made. Now, the primary reasons to
10. 0:14use IPL treatments is to target things
11. 0:16like freckles and age marks, small
12. 0:18damaged blood vessels called tactantas
13. 0:20and rosacea. So, here's my experience.
14. 0:22So, I've just arrived at the Palm Clinic
15. 0:24for the first IPL treatment. I'll see
16. 0:25you on the other side. Okay, so first
17. 0:27IPL done. You can see it's made my skin
18. 0:29quite red and it's meant to make
19. 0:31everything a bit worse in terms of my
20. 0:32freckles and things before it makes it
21. 0:34better. So over the next couple of days,
22. 0:36in theory, it should swell a bit more.
23. 0:39That should all come up a bit more in
24. 0:40terms of my freckles and then it should
25. 0:41all go away in theory. So just to build
26. 0:44on that, the light emitted by the
27. 0:45device, it's absorbed by the melanin in
28. 0:47the freckles and the sunspots as well as
29. 0:49the hemoglobin in the blood vessels. So
30. 0:51that heats them and it damages them. So
31. 0:53that damage it stimulates the body's
32. 0:54natural healing processes and that leads
33. 0:56to the breakdown and the removal of the
34. 0:58unwanted pigment or the vessels. So over
35. 1:00time that does help to improve skin
36. 1:02tone, it reduces redness and it evens
37. 1:03out the pigmentation. So think of it a
38. 1:05bit like exercise for the skin. So it
39. 1:07creates targeted damage that initially
40. 1:09makes things worse, but then the body
41. 1:11heals that damage and it comes back
42. 1:12stronger. Here's my face the next day.
43. 1:14So you can see that my freckles are
44. 1:15starting to show up more prominently and
45. 1:17my skin is fairly red. So this is day
46. 1:20three.
47. 1:24So this is day four.
48. 1:33So this is day five. You've you can see
49. 1:35that the freckles have started to fall
50. 1:38away. But interestingly, I've now got a
51. 1:40cold sore. I haven't had a cold sore
52. 1:42since I was about 17. And they told me
53. 1:45that this could happen because the IPL
54. 1:46treatment, it stresses uh the skin. and
55. 1:48that stress can um can then affect the
56. 1:51lip as well and that can reactivate the
57. 1:53herpes virus. So I need to go and get a
58. 1:55antiviral cream. Um so yeah, I just
59. 1:57wanted to let you know that this is a
60. 1:59known side effect and I think next time
61. 2:00that I have IPL treatment, I'm just
62. 2:02going to use the cream from the uh from
63. 2:04the get- go. So this is day six. You can
64. 2:06see that my cold saws really come along.
65. 2:08I'm actually in the clinic today, so I'm
66. 2:09going to be seeing patients having to
67. 2:11explain this, which is not a great look,
68. 2:12but such is life. Um so just have a look
69. 2:15at the freckles again. and they've
70. 2:18really started to disappear. So, it's
71. 2:20been 30 days. I'm about to have my
72. 2:21second IPL treatment and after the
73. 2:23debacle of the cold saw last time, I've
74. 2:26started taking Bellicycllovia. So, it's
75. 2:28an antiviral. Um, so started taking that
76. 2:30a couple of days ago. So, hopefully the
77. 2:31cold saw doesn't come back. Um, and
78. 2:33again, I'll be taking before and after
79. 2:35uh videos of this so that you can see
80. 2:36potentially the um the freckles and what
81. 2:40the IPL is doing. All right, second
82. 2:42treatment done. So, you can see it
83. 2:43really inflames the face. And what we
84. 2:45really tried to get was that lesion
85. 2:47there and that one there. So, it'll be
86. 2:50interesting to see what actually
87. 2:52happens. But yeah, you can see it's not
88. 2:53the most pleasant thing in the world.
89. 2:54I'll tell you that much. Um, but yeah,
90. 2:57so we'll just monitor it over the next
91. 2:59couple of days and see what happens. So,
92. 3:00for the second time, you can see that it
93. 3:02makes my freckles a lot worse and then
94. 3:04my body will break them down and they'll
95. 3:05slowly fade away. This is day four and
96. 3:07you can see that the freckles under my
97. 3:09eyes have completely gone, but the
98. 3:10freckles on my left cheek. So, while
99. 3:12it's faded, it hasn't completely gone
100. 3:13away. And moving forward, I'm probably
101. 3:15going to get IPL treatments done roughly
102. 3:17every four to six months, similar to how
103. 3:19often I get Botox done. And for those
104. 3:21who are new to Botox, Botox is not the
105. 3:22same thing as filler. And I'm doing
106. 3:24these treatments to look after my skin.
107. 3:26So, interestingly, we've got research
108. 3:27showing that how our skin looks reflects
109. 3:29our chances of living a long life. And
110. 3:31another thing I'm experimenting with is
111. 3:33red light therapy because of the
112. 3:34surprising and fairly compelling
113. 3:35research that I go through in this video