I've just had my second Morpheus 8 treatment. I've had the lower face and neck treated (thanks to years of Botox my forehead is fine). Cost was £950 per session, so just under £2,000 in total. I'd been edging towards considering a facelift (I'm 70) so I'm seeing this as an alternative.
I'd been hearing good things about Morpheus 8 for a few years but have always been put off by reviews saying how painful it is. I've had Ultherapy in the past - about 10 years ago - and it was so painful that I never thought I'd go for this sort of treatment again. However, when I was seeing my aesthetic doctor for my regular Botox one of his assistants had just had a Morpheus 8 treatment and was very convincing about how pain free it had been.
I found the treatment - both treatments - completely bearable. Hardly uncomfortable at all. After the first treatment I immediately said to my doctor 'If I'd known it was so comfortable I'd have had it years ago'. He said 'Everyone says that'. According to him, it gets reviews saying it's painful because practitioners don't use the most effective numbing cream and don't leave it on long enough (mine was left on for an hour and a half). The treatment itself took about 10-15 mins - so really quite quick.
The literature says that your face will be red for a day or two afterwards but mine was hardly red at all.
It's one of those treatments that's supposed to encourage collagen production and so takes a few months for the results to show. However, I saw an improvement in some things just a few days after the first treatment and apparently these are quite common early improvements: a reduction in the size of pores on my nose, reduced sagging under my chin (apparently due to reduction in fat there) and improvement in upper lip lines. All three were things that particularly bothered me - so I'm pleased so far.
Two treatments, a month apart, is the normal protocol. Apparently some people have a third after six months. My doctor suggested that I might want to have another, single, treatment in a year or 18 months time and, if I get a good result, I probably will do that.
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though I do still use my 3 minute mask on days I don't have the energy/patience, but aim to primarily use my Flex more days a week.
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