Hello

[Kat]

You were saying you have had 16 treatments and are only up to one minute that seems very short, are you seeing any benefit?
And what time did they start you on?

They started me at 10 seconds. It was a very long trip for 10 seconds! I have seen some improvements but they are small. My leg is clear, my elbows, stomach and back are better and my scalp, neck and ears vary... they seem better some days and not much better on others. I still have a LOT of itching and scales on scalp, ears and neck but I do think it is less than when I started the light treatment and the acitretin it just hasn't been a big improvement there yet. I have been able to move my score down from 21 to 15 so that's good. It's just being a really slow process.

That's good that you are monitoring your score and yes it will be a slow process .
Working on what you have said they are just giving you an additional 2 seconds a day, is that every other day or at what frequency are you being treated,

It's so long since I had the treatment I can't remember all the detail but I think my maximum was around 10 minutes.
Perhaps as you get used to it they will crank it up in bigger steps
I do remember sporting a great tan and I always asked for my treatment to begin in April or May so I was clear for part of the summer

I go every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Doc ordered 3x per week and they require one day off between treatments. I may be over one minute, I didn't ask. The "voice" started by telling me my treatment would be 30 seconds or less. I know she (nurse) said the first treatment was 10 seconds. Now the "voice" says "your treatment will be approximately one minute long" but it may not change until it's up to 2 minutes or more. The computerized voice comes on once the treatment begins. It hasn't been enough to notice any tanning, but I had gotten some sun over the summer so it will probably take much longer before it would be really noticeable. Even if I did get a bit of a tan, winter is coming up so it will all be gone by next summer.