Quote from timjones on 10/05/09 at 19:11:51:

 
Kindly provide proper citations relative to your statement of "increased epidermis thickness". Without citations such statements are near worthless. I have yet to find any research covering any supposed thickening of skin stemming from administration of exogenous melanocyte stimulating hormones. I have only found statements originating with a "Dr." Geoffrey Nase relative to the melanotan peptides and thickening of the epidermis (relative to a contention he was making about the potential benefits of using the melanotan peptides for therapeutic treatment of rosacea). I contacted Geoffrey Nase about this seeking citations. Although he responded to me, he provided no citations. Certainly the notion is worth entertaining but such statements like yours are going to need the backing of proper scientific research and not merely anecdotal reports of supposed thickening. Unfortunately I suspect that a small number of individuals have been confusing a known effect of dermal thickening from repeated injections into the same area of skin with it possibly originating from peptide usage.  
 
Thanks,
 
-Scott

I signed up just to reply to this post as I think the author is being ridiculous.
 
First of all, the op is very clearly NOT skin type 1. Theres the first hint that shes not quite right in the head. She says she has never had any color but in the before pics she clearly does. Freckles??? I see no freckles, and if theyre are some they are very faint and people with skin type 2,3 etc often get them.  
 
Now to the part where she complains that melanotan has aged her. I see absolutely no difference in her skin. The pictures are taken in completely different lighting conditions and in the before she is not smiling and in the after she is.
 
In my opinion, she has read all the bad things others have reported about melanotan and now she is imagining they are all happening to her and she is getting depressed over it. She has really nice skin in the before and after, I'd hate to see how she how she would be if she was a true type 1 with freckles , thickened skin and wrinkles.
 
Get a grip op !

God I keep forgetting that you cant seem to edit on this forum. Either that or im blind lol
 
Op, I'd also like to know what you think of the pics in other peoples forum logs that are tagged as type 1

Although I am not an expert on Melanotan at all and have only been using it myself for a couple weeks, I am almost positive she had been taking melanotan II all along. There is almost no way that she could get all of those black freckles she mentioned after only a week or two on melanotan-1. I say that judging by all of the melanotan-1 logs where not a single other person had that happen that I have seen and because I have been taking it myself and have had no darkening of freckles yet at all and no new ones at all and that is with sun exposure as well. If she really was taking melanotan II thinking it was 1 then her dose was extremely high for melanotan II which would explain some of her sides. This girls log nearly stopped me from trying Melanotan but I agree with the poster above something is weird and fishy about it, I am confident she was taking melanotan II but even so, all the other side affects are completely uncommon from what I have heard. I mean things like skin thickening and such are expected somewhat but even so, not very many people on the logs report having that side and I think it can be somewhat prevented by drinking lots of water. I don't know, again I am no expert on this but I don't think people should let this log scare them away from melanotan-1. It would be great if she would come back for un update.