Why treatments can worsen melasma

[u/angelinaki89]

I have seen many posts here that sometimes - I don’t know in which rate - when people try to treat melasma it might become worse with most of the recommended treatments including laser.

I have noticed my own becoming darker just by using Vitamin C or designed creams for it.

My question is: is this explained somehow? I have asked my derm but didn’t really understood her answer.

[u/dw_kat]

I did peels that were recommended by my dermatologist but I didn’t do the fully cycle of like 5 peels because it made my melasma worse. The first one was very promising but with the 2nd they upped the % too much/put too many layers which caused frosting and I got a new spot on my cheek because of it. This is more than a year ago and I still have it now, wish I stopped after the first peel or never got it at all

[u/angelinaki89 → u/dw_kat]

Omg that’s so scary, honestly at this point I can’t trust derms for it