10/9/2014 9:10 AM
I am fair skin due to Scottish ancestory and have had more than my share of basal cells cut off. Had something on top of my head in June and my skin doctor wasn't available so had a younger female doctor take care of freezing the thing off. she thought I would be a good candidate for using this cream since my face has had sun damage going back to my daily surfing days. Put the cream on 4 spots, rubbed it in as told and the first week was fine. Second week it started to work. I looked like Freddie Krueger and was in agony for the next week and a half. Skin is now really great by my standards. It was pretty much a chemical peel. Saw my regular doctor last week and of course he took off a basal cell between my shoulders and uglied up my arms and hands but he said he would never have used the cream on my entire face all at once. His method would have been to do sections during the winter months. Moral of my story is yes, get checked at constant intervals but for goodness sakes, ask more questions than I did! Other doctor did not clearly explain how thoroughly this would work. Attacks all the damaged areas and for most of us in the business, that is our entire face, even with sunscreen. Painful to the max , especially daily putting on sunscreen because I still had to spend part of my time in the field but it was successful. Pesticides, who really knows. We have crap in our houses and under our sinks equally as bad or worse. As stated earlier, time will tell.