deontaer
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Now, I know in a post about about a month ago regarding relaxers that we didn't like, I posted that I didn't like this one and would never use it again...I guess I should have truly listed to MYSELF. Today, I just came from my doctors office having received a tetnus shot and a prescription for silverdene - a prescription for severe burns. My doctor said he NEVER seen a burn like this because of a relaxer...needless to say, everyone is telling me to call my lawyer.
I gave myself this relaxer January 1st. Now, before anyone asks, I've been given myself relaxers for YEARS, YEARS, YEARS. So I know exactly how to do it. I've been asked if it's possible that I left the perm in too long ...NO... the relaxer suggests 15 to 20 minutes, I barely made it to 10 because I texlax, but it was BURNING to the point where I was jumping up and down trying to get in the shower to rinse it. I noticed that as I was rinsing, the hair right behind my ears wouldn't budge and I thought that strange, but kept on neutralizing. I must have used half the bottle, but the hair still stuck to the side of my head. I just thought "that will be a scab I'll have to deal with in a week, and didn't think anything of it. I put in my deep moist. cond. and left it in for the rest of the night, got up in the morning, rinsed, through in my leave ins, bunned then wrapped with a scarf. Later that afternoon I was on my way out to the bss to buy another phoney poney and took the scarf off. HOURS LATER the side of my head is still wet! I got a little scared, but by the time I actually left the house, it had dried so, I still kept it moving, but saying silent prayers cause I just knew something was wrong. When I got home, I wrapped my scarf on my head again and continued with my day. About an hour later, I noticed that my head felt wet again. I take off the scarf and look and the mirror and it looks as if I still had shampoo in my hair...this was PUSS. I turn to compare the other side - HORROR!!!! The other side has the same issue just on a smaller scale. I look at my scarf and there is a brownish tinted spots which means there there was some bleeding...I officially enter silent panic mode. My hair is atleast an inch, maybe 2 below bsl and all I could think of was the potential of 2 bald spots on both sides of my head. This was Tuesday. I finally didn't decide to go to the doctor until this morning...after the blisters appeared last night and the oozing continued.
You would think that I'd be in tears right now, but it hasn't happened yet...I guess because I can't see the REAL DAMAGE yet. I can just see the puss and feel it. I don't know if this has resulted in hair loss or not, but I'll say this much, this has NEVER happened to me before and I have NEVER heard of it happening to anyone else. I have left SUPER perms in my hair longer then this REGULAR perm. I would like to post pictures for you guys to see, but MY HEAD IS WRAPPED IN GAUZE FOR THE NEXT 5 DAYS!
Do you guys think that this could have been a bad perm? Side note, when I was combing the relaxer through, some of it fell on my toilette seat, when I whipped it off, the color had rubbed off completely!!!! Like pure bleach! I feel that maybe some ingredient was missing or something, I don't know... I don't know......I don't even know when I should return to my regular wash cycle and what I should use now that I have a damaged scalp. Does anything have any suggestions on what products I should use now? I guess this is my first step to natural hair, cause I'm never relaxing again.
I gave myself this relaxer January 1st. Now, before anyone asks, I've been given myself relaxers for YEARS, YEARS, YEARS. So I know exactly how to do it. I've been asked if it's possible that I left the perm in too long ...NO... the relaxer suggests 15 to 20 minutes, I barely made it to 10 because I texlax, but it was BURNING to the point where I was jumping up and down trying to get in the shower to rinse it. I noticed that as I was rinsing, the hair right behind my ears wouldn't budge and I thought that strange, but kept on neutralizing. I must have used half the bottle, but the hair still stuck to the side of my head. I just thought "that will be a scab I'll have to deal with in a week, and didn't think anything of it. I put in my deep moist. cond. and left it in for the rest of the night, got up in the morning, rinsed, through in my leave ins, bunned then wrapped with a scarf. Later that afternoon I was on my way out to the bss to buy another phoney poney and took the scarf off. HOURS LATER the side of my head is still wet! I got a little scared, but by the time I actually left the house, it had dried so, I still kept it moving, but saying silent prayers cause I just knew something was wrong. When I got home, I wrapped my scarf on my head again and continued with my day. About an hour later, I noticed that my head felt wet again. I take off the scarf and look and the mirror and it looks as if I still had shampoo in my hair...this was PUSS. I turn to compare the other side - HORROR!!!! The other side has the same issue just on a smaller scale. I look at my scarf and there is a brownish tinted spots which means there there was some bleeding...I officially enter silent panic mode. My hair is atleast an inch, maybe 2 below bsl and all I could think of was the potential of 2 bald spots on both sides of my head. This was Tuesday. I finally didn't decide to go to the doctor until this morning...after the blisters appeared last night and the oozing continued.
You would think that I'd be in tears right now, but it hasn't happened yet...I guess because I can't see the REAL DAMAGE yet. I can just see the puss and feel it. I don't know if this has resulted in hair loss or not, but I'll say this much, this has NEVER happened to me before and I have NEVER heard of it happening to anyone else. I have left SUPER perms in my hair longer then this REGULAR perm. I would like to post pictures for you guys to see, but MY HEAD IS WRAPPED IN GAUZE FOR THE NEXT 5 DAYS!
Do you guys think that this could have been a bad perm? Side note, when I was combing the relaxer through, some of it fell on my toilette seat, when I whipped it off, the color had rubbed off completely!!!! Like pure bleach! I feel that maybe some ingredient was missing or something, I don't know... I don't know......I don't even know when I should return to my regular wash cycle and what I should use now that I have a damaged scalp. Does anything have any suggestions on what products I should use now? I guess this is my first step to natural hair, cause I'm never relaxing again.
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I hope your scalp gets better soon!!
Please keep us posted.
