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Feb. 14th, 2007 11:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxgrrlI know it's just a physiological reaction to pain, but I can't stop crying [Ok, I've stopped now as I type this.] I had another face zapping treatment, and for the amount of pain I'm feeling, I can't believe that I'm not covered in blood, or that I wasn't actually set on fire.
It took two hours, because I broke down crying in the middle of the treatment. It was like the Lidocaine was having no effect at all. This was my fourth treatment, and it was the worst of all of them. I re-applied the Lidocaine three times, and I thought that I was numb, until treatment started again. And it felt very much like having several long, deep, hairs liquefy and char, as they explode out from the pores of your skin… every second… for twenty or so seconds. (Followed by the smell of burnt popcorn.) My teeth really hurt now, because I was clenching my jaw so hard.
Now having read up on Wikipedia about the mechanism of Lidocaine,
By the way, does anyone in the SF Bay Area want to go to this: http://www.dnalounge.com/flyers/2007/02/15-meat.html tomorrow?![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dymaxion and artkiver were going, but it seems like the kind of thing that dv_girl might like to do (hint, hint).
[I wish Nyah was here, but I hope she's having a good time in New Orleans.]
It took two hours, because I broke down crying in the middle of the treatment. It was like the Lidocaine was having no effect at all. This was my fourth treatment, and it was the worst of all of them. I re-applied the Lidocaine three times, and I thought that I was numb, until treatment started again. And it felt very much like having several long, deep, hairs liquefy and char, as they explode out from the pores of your skin… every second… for twenty or so seconds. (Followed by the smell of burnt popcorn.) My teeth really hurt now, because I was clenching my jaw so hard.
Now having read up on Wikipedia about the mechanism of Lidocaine,
[B]locking the fast sodium (Na+) channels in the cell membrane; I suspect that the reason it had no effect on me this time, was because I've gone back on Piracetam which effects
[N]eurotransmission via modulation of ion channels. So, I guess it's good to see that Piracetam isn't just an expensive Placebo.
By the way, does anyone in the SF Bay Area want to go to this: http://www.dnalounge.com/flyers/2007/02/15-meat.html tomorrow?
dymaxion and artkiver were going, but it seems like the kind of thing that dv_girl might like to do (hint, hint).[I wish Nyah was here, but I hope she's having a good time in New Orleans.]
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Date: 2007-02-15 09:15 pm (UTC)I think some people have much deeper hair follicles than others, or closer connections to that little bundle of nerves. My pain threshold is very very high, but plucking my eyebrows is completely out of the question. It's an alarming pain; it triggers a powerful emotional response. Usually anger.
When you think about it, though, one of the hair's primary functions is a sensory extension. No wonder it hurts so much.
Do try a combo of acetaminophen and ibuprofen, before, and ask your doctor about taking a vitamin E supplement. A big dose of vit E taken orally always kicked my sebaceous glands into overdrive, which might help the hair come out with less pain.
Something else: do you need any dental work? If so, you could schedule a visit to the dentist right before, and ask him or her to liberally apply the local. Obviously a topical application isn't doing much.