Sorry, but I posted this in two other places with no response. I am now trying here.

I originally bought CP serum 4 years ago but stopped using it after I noticed a slight depression forming on my cheek. I have hyperpigmentation spots and larger pores. I wasn't quite sure if the CP serum was the culprit. It's been a few years and after reading glowing reviews I ordered Super CP serum, and Super Cop after finishing the original. I don't have any sensitivity to it and tolerate it well. I also use EMU oil and Exfol Serum. The problem is that in the past year I noticed the depression appears more noticable. I have also been using 40% Lactic Acid peels during this time frame. Well, after using the Super CP serum and Super Cop for the past 12 days, I noticed today that I can see two more slightly round depressions forming. It sort of looks like chicken pox marks or "crop circles". They are whitish in color compared to the rest of my skin. My daughter is getting married in August (I am 52) and wanted my skin to look better not worse. I am getting worried so I stopped using it. Can you advise me as to what's going on and what I can do to help it. Otherwise, the CP products did make my face smoother, more even and overall looking better in the short time I have been using them this time around. I would love to continue, but these more pronounced depressions are scaring me. Thanks.

The round circles are buried skin damage becoming visible. Many of our clients have reported this. After skin damage, relatively good skin often overgrows the injured area. This make your skin look somewhat better, but the buried damage caused bumps, pocks and depressions, so your skin never looks really good.

But as you work on your skin, the damage is slowly pushed to the surface. Then the goal is to remove this damage with hydroxy acids, abrasion, needling and copper peptides.

Dr. Pickart, not sure if you saw my recent post but after needling my depressed scar about a month ago with a sewing needle, it looks like it is either bigger, deeper or maybe discolored. Not sure what I am seeing but it is definitely more visible. This is after a year of very slow progress with no real visible results. I am upset because I think I have made it worse. I had been using trireduction plus lacsal but had gone on after about 7 months to use super cp serum and retina. This is what I was using when after 3 weeks of looking like it might be improving, the area now looks worse. What should I do - stop everything? Go back to using Trireduction?Thanks very much.

Erika

Your problem seems to be slow skin regeneration.

Focus on using more internal supplements. I gram each day of vitamin C, MSM, glucosamine, and borage oil or flaxseed oil. This may help skin rebuilding.

Hi and thanks for the reply.
So should I just continue with the Super CP and Super Cop, along with Exfol and Lactic Acid Peels?
If I understand correctly then the new depressions are a direct result of the bad coming up to the surface, which then needs the hydroxy's to slough them off. Then the CP's will remodel and the depressions will hopefully fill in???
I read in one old post that some people thought they were using too much of the acid and that they hypothesized that the skin regeneration wasn't able to keep up. If they are correct should I use more of the CP alone with intermittent use of the Exfol/Lacsal/hydroxy's to allow my skin to catchup?

Everything sounds great, EXCEPT the SEWING needle.

Go to a chemist and get diabetic needles for use in the pens. They are sterile, and much smaller than a sewing needle.

Dont cause further damage! use a tiny needle, several times, you will only spot a little blood and will NOT get a bigger scar.
JMHO