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Days 26-27 - Another 48 hours...

This blog is to help others contemplating this treatment.


Days 26-27


Ok, another 48 hours and I'm stowing away the time (gratuitous Steely Dan reference 😀).  I'm thinking the wheels are starting to turn in a positive way.  There's a little bit of spontaneous bleeding from spots, but that's not new, and generally speaking I'm more pink than red.  Good thing!  Less itching also, which is a very good thing!

In the morning, with the moisturizer gone overnight, my skin feels uncomfortably tight, but less uncomfortably tight than two days ago, so that's progress.  It feels like your skin is painted on and is drying and it's a laminated shiny surface (haven't explained that very well).

The routine is: Advantan on the whole face once a day in the morning, leave that for twenty minutes then cover over with Aqueous Cream.  More Aqueous Cream at about 2.30pm and 6.00pm after shaving.  Shaving late in the day is working for me as it means no stubble to catch on the pillow case.  I'm usually a morning shaver, I think most men are (?).

Feeling generally more positive about how this is moving now. 

Today is the sixth day of the healing phase.



Day 25 left
48 hours later - Day 27


Day 25 right
     Day 27 right




Learning:    


Donald Fagan and Walter Becker (1971)
Steely Dan






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