Topical lidocaine for DIY microneedling.

[aids]

Going to order my own Derma-pen, so that for subsequent microneedling treatments, I can do them at home, more frequently than every 8-12 weeks at my clinic, where I am spending 350AUD per treatment.
For those who do DIY microneedling with a pen, I am curious as to the strength of numbing cream you use? In Australia, only 5% lidocaine is available OTC. I'll need a prescription or to import lidocaine cream if I want stronger.
I want to do 2.25mm to 2.5mm in depth per treatment, which is still painful even with the cream that the clinics offer. So, does anyone have any recommendations for a strength of topical lidocaine given these depths, and how I should go about finding it?

I will mark the best reply as solution, but if you can comment from experience, that would be best, thank you.

 

[aids]

For anyone curious, microneedling is a Godsend. It completely cured my atrophic scarring. Now I just have pigmentation/sun damage/aging concerns and very minor closed comedones which I will just use isotretinoin for.

I would recommend it to anyone even in their mid teens.

 

[ase]

For anyone curious, microneedling is a Godsend. It completely cured my atrophic scarring.

I think I have that too from gut issues so ima use

 

[bruhtoobrutal]

So, does anyone have any recommendations for a strength of topical lidocaine given these depths, and how I should go about finding it?

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[jeoyw9192]

For anyone curious, microneedling is a Godsend. It completely cured my atrophic scarring. Now I just have pigmentation/sun damage/aging concerns and very minor closed comedones which I will just use isotretinoin for.

I would recommend it to anyone even in their mid teens.

recommend to do it in the under eye region?

 

[Alex_notmogging]

Is 2.25mm quite alot ??

Like i want to do my microneedling seesion with like 1.25mm and i kinda thought thats alot already

Also i could only find 4% from my local pharmacy in germany but i found a 5% from luxemburg

 

[jester]

Going to order my own Derma-pen, so that for subsequent microneedling treatments, I can do them at home, more frequently than every 8-12 weeks at my clinic, where I am spending 350AUD per treatment.
For those who do DIY microneedling with a pen, I am curious as to the strength of numbing cream you use? In Australia, only 5% lidocaine is available OTC. I'll need a prescription or to import lidocaine cream if I want stronger.
I want to do 2.25mm to 2.5mm in depth per treatment, which is still painful even with the cream that the clinics offer. So, does anyone have any recommendations for a strength of topical lidocaine given these depths, and how I should go about finding it?

I will mark the best reply as solution, but if you can comment from experience, that would be best, thank you.

i don’t use numbing cream

 

[aids]

i don’t use numbing cream

Do you use a pen? Either yes and you don’t go deep enough (redundant) or no (redundant).
And stop necro-posting.

 

[jester]

Do you use a pen? Either yes and you don’t go deep enough (redundant) or no (redundant).
And stop necro-posting.

nah derma stamp