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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks for a discussion about this!

I tanned a lot during college, really too, too much in my experience, going about four times a week for 20 minutes each time.

Then I migrated towards the various spray tans.

Now though, I'm in my late 30s, and haven't been to a tanning bed in well over a decade.  I don't really get out in the sun at all anymore either.

In the last year or so, I've developed KP REALLY badly on the tops of my thighs, upper arms and forearms.   Since I'm so pale now, it's very noticeable and I sort of wear long sleeves rolled up to about my wrists and never, ever shorts.  Of course, that probably compounds the issue of not getting enough sun exposure!

The last year has been a revolving experiment with various exfoliants, scrubs, moisturizers, creams, etc.  Nothing has worked at all.

I've tried the Cerave for bumpy skin but really all that does is makes the skin smooth.

I assumed perhaps it was clogged follicles, so I tried Nair on one of my thighs just to see if it would work.  Nothing changed.

I've tried various tea tree oil mixtures, glycolic wipes (the strongest I could find on Amazon) and even went through a course of doxycycline (for an unrelated rash on my hand) but that didn't lessen the appearance of the KP at ALL.

I tried a home seaweed bath (yeah, that was fun), various vinegar bath mixtures, a bleach bath, those trends exfoliating gloves.

NOTHING.

So now that it's summer where I am, my last resort is to go back to the tanning bed after a decade!  I've been trying to hold out and not go, but I never had any form of KP-like bumps while I was going previously.  In fact, I always received compliments about the evenness of my skin tone!

Derms prescribe phototherapy a lot now, so we'll see how it works.  I'm going to start with lliterally like maybe a minute or two in the lowest bed, but don't plan on exceeding 5 minutes or so.

Would that be sufficient?  Any ideas?  I don't want to get up to 20 minutes four times a week again.  That seems a little excessive.

I'll definitely be wearing heavy sunblock on my face and neck area this go around but really am optimistic that it will help some with the KP.[/quote]

Phototherapy as a dermatology treatment is not the same as a tanning bed. The concept of U/V rays tends to be oversimplified; long story short, the form of U/V ray matters.

Applying the Retin-A prescribed for my face a few times a week and microdermabrasion helped address mine. [/quote]

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