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As the treatment is carried out you will experience heating sensations every time the RF energy is delivered to your skin and underlying tissue.
Some devices have inbuilt cooling mechanisms, to protect your skin from the heating, and make the treatment more comfortable.
As each person's pain tolerance and threshold varies, it is difficult to quantify how painful or uncomfortable the treatment is. It also depends on the device used and the power settings for the treatment. Your clinician may offer you anaesthetic options, such as a topical anaesthetic cream applied to your skin prior to treatment, or relaxants and pain management drugs, that can minimize your discomfort.
The most frequently reported side effects of treatment with RF energy are swelling, redness or bruising on or around the treated area, which typically disappear in a few days or weeks. There are also reports of a feeling of dry skin in the treated area for a couple of days, lubrication with aloe-vera can be helpful for this.
Some people may notice a slight increase in urine output following treatment, especially with the Velasmooth™. This is because any excessive fluid build up in between cells in the area treated is drained through the lymphatic system via the treatment process – this then gets excreted in the urine.
In very rare circumstances and if the correct instructions are not followed by the practitioner, it is possible to suffer from a skin burn.