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Showered yesterday night ✅
Strong numbing cream applied (<15% lidocaine, <15% prilocaine) ✅
Areas covered in food-grade PVC cling film (aka plastic wrap) ✅
Pre-emptive painkillers (including NSAID) taken ✅

All prepared for another 2-hour electrolysis (flash thermolysis) session. This'll be our 28th session overall, and the 6th one involving our down belows. We're currently using up the small number of hours (16) paid for by the NHS before we return to having to pay for our sessions.

We barely expect to feel anything, but wish us luck anyway :TransHeart: :NonBinaryHeart:

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Apologies that we've not updated everyone for a while. The migraine from Friday and Saturday, and the migraine hangover feeling today, didn't help either.

On Friday 18th October, we had our latest 2 hour electrolysis session. This was also the first usage of the 16 hours total the NHS England is funding. (They'll only agree to more if deemed required for GRS.)

As extra preparation, we recently got ourselves some J-Cain numbing cream. It's listed as 29.9% lidocaine, but the ingredients say 15.6%.

Anyway, we'd previously tried that with PVC film and it wasn't much stronger than the previous 10% (5% lidocaine, 5% prilocaine) cream we'd been using. So, we looked into enhancing it.

Our solution in the end was to mix in some IPM as a penetration enhancer and prilocaine API for additional numbing.

We later found out that a milk frother works surprisingly well for mixing, but for the purposes of this session, it had been mixed by hand. It's the best we can do on a budget really, as it's not like we can afford an homogeniser of some form 😅

It's definitely a work in progress, and we didn't apply PVC film correctly to our face after applying, but oh my gosh did it work so much better than before already!!!

Areas that would usually make us winch, like our upper lip, barely registered. Many areas on our face and neck we simply could not feel at all.

My electrologist spent about an hour on my face / neck and the remainder on the down below bits, which felt nothing whatsoever.

We're still working out the kinks with this enhancement to get it ideal, which is why we aren't sharing the percentages, but once we've confirmed the ideal mix, we'll share the details.

We'll try to remember to share some face photo updates. We won't share the down below bits 😅

We're up to 41 hours cumulatively on our face neck and 4 hours cumulatively on the down-belows.

It's really just whack-a-mole now with the remaining face and neck hairs. Leaving a month between sessions now to give more opportunity for the remaining lil buggers to show.

There's a way to go with the genital area, but hopefully the majority of the remaining 14 hours of NHS funding can be used for down there.

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And here are some photos from the next day.

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These were photos we took later on the same day.

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These were three photos we took of our face/neck before Friday's electrolysis session.

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Areas exfoliated yesterday ✅
Strong numbing cream applied (5% lidocaine, 5% prilocaine) ✅
Areas covered in cling film (aka plastic wrap) ✅
Strong painkillers taken ✅

All prepared for another 2-hour electrolysis (flash thermolysis) session. There's still some clean-up to do on my face/neck, but it's mostly going to be on my down below bits, which is much less painful we've found than our front lip.

#electrolysis #FlashThermolysis #EvieElectrolysisExtracts #trans #transgender #TransFem #TransWoman #TransGirl #enby #NonBinary #HairRemoval #transition #queer #LGBT+ #LGBTQ+ #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQIA2S+