Melasma or Hyperpigmentation Telemedicine Visit
Get your scientifically proven treatment for melasma. We’ll recommend one or more customized prescription compounds along with the brightening and lightening CherylLeeMD products. We can’t wait to see the bright and beautiful you!
Each Visit Costs $95 | Each Custom Prescription Costs $69
Understanding melasma or hyperpigmentation2
Melasma or hyperpigmentation is a common skin condition characterized by patches of darker skin. While this condition can be frustrating, it is not typically harmful. Melasma is a specific type of hyperpigmentation that often affects the face.
Melasma affects people of all races, but it is more common in darker skin types. Melasma is more prevalent in women than in men. It is rare before puberty and more common during reproductive years. The prevalence of melasma varies widely, ranging from 1.5% to 33% depending on the population.2
Understanding these statistics can help you better understand the prevalence and risk factors associated with melasma or hyperpigmentation.
- Melasma or hyperpigmentation symptoms
- Melasma or hyperpigmentation causes
- Melasma or hyperpigmentation treatments
Melasma or hyperpigmentation symptoms1, 4
Melasma or hyperpigmentation is characterized by patches of darker skin, often appearing on the face, neck, chest, or arms. These patches can vary in size, shape, and intensity, and may become more noticeable when exposed to sunlight.
Key symptoms:
- Dark, brown patches: These patches are typically flat and darker than your natural skin tone.
- Irregular shape: Melasma patches often have irregular shapes or borders.
- Location: Patches commonly appear on the face, including the upper lips, bridge of the nose, cheeks, and forehead. They can also appear on the neck, chest, or arms.
- Sensitivity to sunlight: Melasma may become more noticeable or worsen after sun exposure.
Melasma or hyperpigmentation causes1-2, 4
The exact cause of melasma and hyperpigmentation is not fully understood, but several factors are believed to contribute to their development. These include:
- Genetic predisposition: People with a family history of melasma or hyperpigmentation may be at a higher risk.
- Hormonal factors: Hormonal changes during pregnancy or from birth control pills can trigger melasma.
- Sun exposure: Excessive exposure to sunlight can stimulate melanocytes, leading to increased pigmentation.
- Medications: Certain medications, such as anti-seizure medications, can increase the risk of melasma.
- Skin tone: People with darker skin tones are more likely to develop melasma than those with lighter skin tones.
Melasma or hyperpigmentation treatments1-3
Melasma or hyperpigmentation is a common skin condition that can be effectively managed with various treatment options. While there is no cure, the goal of treatment is to lighten the dark patches and prevent recurrence.
Common treatment approaches include:
- Topical medications: Hydroquinone, azelaic acid, kojic acid, niacinamide, cysteamine, rucinol, hydrocortisone, tranexamic acid, and triple combination cream (tretinoin, corticosteroid, and hydroquinone) are commonly used to reduce pigmentation and inflammation.
Experience the convenience of virtual consultations with our board-certified providers. Through AZOVA Dermatology services, you’ll receive personalized treatment plans, prescriptions when necessary, and a recommendation for CherylLeeMD products, helping you reduce melasma and restore a youthful, even complexion.
How it works
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Register
Complete your registration for a telemedicine visit. Add your history and photos of your condition.
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Your visit
Your telemedicine provider will complete your visit via secure messaging or video depending on the requirements in your state with a full treatment plan within 24-48 hours.
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Treatment plan
Get a custom prescription compounded in TrueLipids along with your CLMD maintenance plan. Our partner pharmacy ships to your door!
Telemedicine for melasma or hyperpigmentation
Melasma is a common condition that appears as irregular patches of tan, brown, or brown-gray pigmentation, usually on the face. The most common cause is ultraviolet light from exposure sunlight AND heat. Melasma affects women much more frequently than men due to hormone changes associated with pregnancy and oral contraceptives. Patients with darker skin are also more likely to develop melasma.
Your provider will recommend one or more custom prescription solutions for melasma along with the patented CherylLeeMD products to help you achieve the best results.
Your treatment and prevention plan
At CherylLeeMD, we know that if you have acne prone skin, it can be really difficult to find a moisturizer that doesn’t make your acne worse. TrueLipids Hydrate Correct & Perfect Lotion helps to balance oil production and to minimize pore size. With the perfect amount of moisture and with niacinamide–a molecule that has been proven to benefit acne. Glycyrrhetinic acid is a naturally occurring anti-inflammatory molecule that has been shown to diminish redness and to brighten skin. This quality is especially beneficial for those with darker skin types as well and lighter skin.
Healthy skin secrets from CherylLeeMD
Anti-inflammatory ingredients that help restore the skin barrier
Certain anti-inflammatory agents play a significant role in restoring a healthy skin barrier. The ingredient that is most helpful is called 18 ß-glycyrrhetinic acid. Despite its scientific sounding name, this compound is derived from licorice and has significant anti- inflammatory, anti-bacterial, and DNA reparative qualities.
Scientists who have worked with 18 ß-glycyrrhetinic acid have noted that it fights staphylococcal and MRSA infections as well as viral infections like RSV and Candida. All three of these healthy skin secrets play an important role in relieving painful, dry, itchy red skin conditions. When you combine them together in the right concentrations, what you get is a powerful skin care product that helps support and restore healthy skin.
Healthy skin secrets from CherylLeeMD
Niacinamide and the super vitamin for skin
With countless research studies showing effectiveness in eczema, acne and rosacea, niacinamide also packs an amazing anti-inflammatory punch. Niacinamide also has DNA-reparative functionalities that are perfect for damaged, inflamed and infected skin. The TrueLipids combination of niacinamide and 18 ß-glycyrrhetinic acid is incredibly soothing to your skin.
Healthy skin secrets from CherylLeeMD
PH balance
We discovered that healthy skin has a pH that is moderately acidic— between 4.6 – 5.6. This moderately acidic pH naturally protects your skin against harmful bacteria and viruses and supports a healthy skin barrier that keeps moisture in and other harmful elements out.
However, when you wash your skin with traditional soaps, you scrub away the skin’s natural acidity and make it alkaline. Even using pure water washes away your skin’s natural acids. Most lotions and moisture replacement therapies are very alkaline too, which makes the problem worse.
Our research showed that helping the skin regain its natural acidic pH was critical to treating the worst skin condition.
Healthy skin secrets from CherylLeeMD
Lipid replacement
Healthy skin has a delicate balance of ceramides, very long chain fatty acids, cholesterol and cholesterol esters. Too much of one or the other is what leads to multiple skin diseases. Too little of these important lipids and your skin dries out and cracks.
Many of the treatments recommended by doctors today are made with just one of these critical ingredients, like cholesterol. But if you put cholesterol on your skin without the balance of other lipids, the result is eczema, increased wrinkles, and dried-out, rashy skin.
Perhaps most important of all, our products are made without any of the 88 top allergens commonly found in other skincare products—things like bees wax, parabens, PEGs, fragrances, dyes, and 83 other potentially allergenic ingredients. CherylLeeMD products are truly allergen-free.
We’ve got none of that
What you get
What’s included
What’s not included
- Adderall
- Ativan
- Norco
- Oxycodone
- Valium
- Xanax
- Abilify
- Gabapentin
- Lithium
- Chantix
- Contrave
- Qsymia
What we don’t treat
- Chest Pain or Pressure
- Convulsion or Seizure
- Difficulty Breathing
- Unconsciousness
- Significant, Uncontrolled Bleeding
- Pain Medication Overdose or Reaction (Narcotics)
- Moderate to Severe Burn
- Serious Head, Neck, or Back Injury
- Serious Limb Impairment or Broken Bone
- Poisoning
- Suicidal Ideation
- Mental Health or Substance Abuse Urgency
About Cheryl Lee Eberting, M.D.
Inventor of the TrueLipids® and TrueCider™ Technology. Board-Certified Dermatologist, Former NIH Scientist and Expert in Acne
“I have spent my entire career focused on the treatment of difficult skin conditions. While working as a clinical research scientist at the National Institutes of Health, I treated patients from all over the world with very severe skin problems. I found that there were no effective AND non-toxic solutions for my patients–especially for people who have sensitive skin. I set out to create products that are effective AND hypoallergenic AND non-toxic for all ages. After almost FIVE years of trial and error, TrueLipids and TrueCider were born! These products are so effective that they have received United States patents, and won many awards.
Give them a try. I’m sure you will love them like my family and I do.”
With Love,
