hi guys

im new to this site and looking for some help.

im 25 years old and in the past year i have noticed the skin around my eyes get thinner and now you can all the blue veins around my eyes. does anyone else have this problem? can anyone recommend any products to use? its so embarrasiing when people say to me "how comes i can see your veins..

please help at a lost as to what to do

charlize242

Little Lady / abr_bly - Since many weeks have passed now could you please give us an update? Are you still happy with the result?


Also, has anyone heard about the Mydon Laser? I had an appointment this week with an experienced dermatologist and he is quite sure that he can get rid of the ugly blue veins under my eyes with using the Mydon Laser. He also said that it needs several treatments though since the vein are under the eyes and he therefore prefers to treat them with a lot of caution starting with rather light bursts of light (low frequency) onto the veins and with enhancing the bursts of light with every other treatment only if necessary.

Would be great if I could get some opinion on this. Many Thanks!

MAHARANI

Just curious to ask those who have had the laser treatment, after how long are you allowed to wear make up. I ask because in addition to the veins I have dark circles and I have to wear eye make up, otherwise I feel I look like a zombie !!

Also want to know if this treatment can be carried out on black skin.

abr_bly

Hi charlize242,

Honestly speaking I've recently noticed the vein under my eye appear visible. Following the treatment I would say 90% of the vein had disappeared but of late I can see more of of the vein. My husband points out that it is only thread like which compared to what it was like before is still an improvement.

I have photos of it before and I need to look at them to remind myself how bad it was, even so I was devasted when I could see it reappearing.
The second vein I had treated was a temple vein and that was the most visible and largest one. That is very faint now and I'm not too fussed about it.

I had really hoped that would have been the end of my vein troubles but I guess that was too much to hope for.

I can only assume that the vein hasn't completely been zapped because the 'strength'of the laser used under my eye wasn't as much as the temple vein. Mayb he was being careful and wanted to go at slowly.

Haven't lived without the vein without for some months I hate seein it again, even if faintly so I'm gonna return and tell him I want it gone good and proper, because honestly I can't afford continued treatments.

Also dependent on the type and size of the vein and 'strength' of laser used is gonna effect the end result. Fingers crossed for the last time, my last appointment will be on the 10th of this month!!!

x

abr_bly

maharani,

I also have dark circles, which I think are a result of my veins and I used make up relatively soon after.

There was some residual swelling but no one could tell the difference, not even me till after it had gone down!

The coolglide can be used on any skin tone, I'm of asian background and olive toned, but yes it can be used on darker skin tones.

MAHARANI

Thanks for the response. So do you think your dark circles have improved since you had the treatment, then ?

abr_bly

Hi Maharani,

where the dark circles are concerned I'd say only slightly improved. My dark circles are more to the fact I have little fat under my eyes and so I guess it shows up my veins. I have to say after my first treatment for my veins my under eye area was only slightly swollen and that was the only time i was free of those horrible dark circles.

But once the sweilling came down they were back. If there was a solution to the darkc circles id jump a it. But where veins are the problem I'm still happy with the effect of the coolglide laser treatment.

Hope this helps. x

MAHARANI

abr_bly,


Same problem with me. Vey thin skin especially around the eye area. And I hate the way it looks, hence make up every day. It is only very occasionally that I wake up and think it doesn't look too bad.


Well if you find a solution, please let me know. I know that there has been a suggestion about injecting fillers/collagen into the area, but when I went for a consultation at a clinic in London, I was told that the eye area cannot have this procedure. Don't kow if anyone has had this done anywhere else.

Golden_Boy

Dr Gupta sounds GREAT!

jennifix

i have lots of dark blue veins under my eyes that are all interlacing and obvious. I have just had a consultation with Dr Newman Harley Street in London. He is going to treat mine. It is not cheap though... i've saved for 2 years. £100 for consultation and £399 for the treatment . I am 23 and they really depress me and i thought it was time to get them fixed. He said if they don't go away on the first treatment then he will do the second for free. I had to go for Veinwave treatment as i have a pigment disorder and lasers can cause pigment colouration and scarring as does scelopathey (?) and it would be more likely on me. I read bad reviews for local veinwaves but only great ones for dr newman (who invented it) doing it. So i'm taking the plunge. I will let everyone know if it works, though i've got a month until my treatment.

Anyone else used veinwave?

abr_bly

Hi Jennifix,

I read alot about veinwave before I had my coolglide laser treatment for my veins but for mine they weren't suitable.I guess it depends on the type of veins that need treating as to which is going to be suitable.

My veins were quite big veins, nothing like the little thread veins that I think veinwave is best at treating. Mine were obvious blue reticular veins and in my research the only laser I cam across that had been used to treat these kind of veins was the Nd:Yag laser (coolglide laser).

I went to have some of my other veins treated this weekend. The first vein I had treated under my eye was a good few mm thick but now on a bad day its equivalent to a thread vein. I had gone back to treat this one too. But Dr Gupta explained that the laser works best when there is plenty of blood to react with and in this vein there was very little blood. He told me to wait some months and if it returned to treat it then. Basically it would be a waste of my money to do it!!

I guess this is the reason the veins on my temple worked best because they were the most prominent veins and they are gone especially ones I got treated over the weekend. There's some residual swelling but nothin major.

He again did explain that if the pressure behind the vein is high then the vein could re-open and the veins return but i'm hoping they won't.

Dr Gupta was really nice and even tried to persuade me to not have it done as he felt I didn't need it but as I have issues with these veins I didn't want to wait so had them done.
He's told me he doesn't wanna see me again until some time next year, that's if i need to go back! LOL!

I hope the veinwave treatment works for you and keep us updated, my skin around my eyes if fine so I do have some tiny thread veins and maybe veinwave one day might be something that'll help there.

P.S. the treatment I had this weekend hurt. Normally it was uncomforatble but i think because it was near my hairline the hair must have absorbed some of the heat, anyways I beared it with only a few tears in my eyes...lol....well worth it though!!!
Also you quoted £399 for your treatment, how long is that for?