fighting genetics: failed preparations

I've been meaning to write a follow up blogpost for my "fighting genetics" entry but I am too depressed with the results.. or should I say that that there were no results at all.

I didn't see any skin peeling off, didnt see any visible changes with the scars and my knees - no improvements at all. huhuhuh :'( I can't think of a reason why since I followed every instruction that they gave me.

I went to Dra Geraldez last Monday and told her about it. She said that the skin that would come off will be very tiny that it's almost not visible. *Sigh* I didn't want to come off as a pessimistic patient so I asked her if there is a stronger peeling treatment that she can do since time is really important for me (I only have a year to fix myself and go to ODs). She recommended the Meso Body Peel which uses a stronger chemical agent than Tretinoin and will give visible results. It'll be applied all over my legs and the peeling will happen after 7 days. However; it costs a fortune!! The rate is around Php 850/ml. (Yes! They'll count how many ml/cc that they'll be putting on my legs! Sheesh! ) Anyway, I had them schedule me for Thursday. I went home to think about it.

I thought about it and thought about how my savings are slowly depleting. I couldn't work that night. I was literally staring at the ceiling and thinking about the Meso Body Peel. Will it also be a total fail like the tret peel? Will I be wasting money on it? I have planned of these kind of treatments before and have thought of the fortune that I will be spending in order to get that dream job but I don't want to spend money on something that won't work. I also thought about how I am running out of time and I really want to go to Assessments this December.

I can't find anything about it in Belo's website


I decided to go on with the treatment.

Thursday
I went to Belo. Brought my beach pants since Dra said that I should wear something that won't touch my skin after the procedure.

The procedure involves a syringe that'll administer the medicine into the mesoderm. This means, the doctor will inject it into my skin a thousand times!! whew! but they were just tiny pricks.
They used 9 ml of the chemical agent for each of my legs (knees and below).
After that, my legs were covered with the green liquid and everyone was teasing me and calling me Princess Fiona. heehee..

I am really hoping that this will work. If it doesn't or if I don't see any improvements, I'll try Faces and Curves since I've been hearing a lot of good things about their Peeling procedures. I think it's much cheaper too. I've been happy with Belo especially with their Facial treatments and facial peels but I'm still not sure with the other treatments.

It's been 4 days since the Meso Body Peel treatment and I couldn't wait til I see dead skin peeling off!