Sculptra for under eye circles

Hi, Was this placed under your eye where the hollows are (on me, anyway..) OR under your eyebrow?? Did they say how long this will last? What part of the country is your doctor located? Thanks for any info.

DO NOT let any doc place sculptra under the eye. It is not approved for the periobital region, it forms lumps that will probably last a good many years of your life. Start liking yourself, you are probably gorgeous without the risk of these fillers. By the way they have little research on the use of sculptra outside of folks with AIDS.

Hi there.....just wondering if you have any before and after photos? I would love to see them if you do.....I have the same problem and am considering getting Sculptra. Thanks, Krisitna

Sensible reply Sophie. After my experience I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, nor recommend it to anyone....absolute disaster of a product, should be banned!!

Allison be grateful for the Restylane results. DON'T use Sculptra....disaster from first hand experience, caused me nothing but tears, angst and great expense to have removed. Would NEVER recommend to anyone.

Hi suzy, i8 have just read your comments regarding sculptra, to say the least i am concerned i have just had this done 6 weeks ago not under my eyes but in the cheek area to give back volume that i had lost with age. I was advised that lumps can occur if the massage routine isnt followed for the 1st ten days.However yhaving read some of the comments it would seem these lumps can occur after some considerable time am i right?

I've had a good response with Sculptra. I had it first done three months ago and again six weeks ago under the eye. My practitioner is from the UK, where Sculptra has been used for many years (known as New Fill there) and not just in AIDS patients. You don't have to have AIDS for this product to work. The product is meant to promote your natural collagen building process to fill sunken in areas. The key is getting an experience person to administer the product. Mine has been doing it for 10 years. She is strict about being conservative and going right down the bone. And of course massaging like crazy afterwards is critical. I love the results. I look like I'm 21 (I'm 31). In fact a group of college boys actually THOUGHT I was 21. I had lost a lot of weight and ended up with eye hollows, which is why I got Sculptra.

Hi, I was reading your responses on sculptra and I have experienced the same problem. I have nodules under my eyes and they are driving me crazy. I spoke with a sculptra expert and she suggested injecting kenolog and saline unto the nodule and it has helped alot, but I have gotten injections for four weeks now and I know my skins tissue is going to end up breaking down from so much injecting. Anyone who is considering this procedure, DON'T. It has really been a nightmare.

The kenalog will cause the area to collapse. I ended up with huge dents and then got fat injections to fill that in. Nightmare. I then started taking prednisone and was amazed at how the "bumps" reduced in size. In conjunction I use a machine called "Freo" to this area twice per day. Basically it is an "icing:" machine. I have wonderful results. I think eventually it just breaks down on its own. I w

hiya Amy i have relly bad dark under eye circles but have heard loads of horror stories about sculpra. could you tell me where you had yours done and the name of the person who did it thank you xxxxxxxxx --- Editor note: You must be contacted privately to receive the doctor information you have requested. Other users may contact you by clicking on your username (if you have opted-in to receiving private contacts - see your userpage for details).

The word "nightmare" seems to be the way so many of us are experiencing from this product... This is such a horrible way to be conned. I sit here emailing you back with a surgical bandaid to support my right eye socket area. The area around my mouth is like "the solar system". One massive lump on each side of my mouth, with little spin offs nodules circling. I really wish the md would have been a more honest person and if he needed the money so badly just robbed my handbag.

The doctor who told me about the kenalog also said to mix it with saline so it dilutes it and do it a little at a time with a 30 gauge needle. This will prevent the collapsing. Mine have gotten extremely smaller, but not gone yet. Are yours still there or are they completely gone? also, what is the freo machine and where can I get it and are you taking prednisone pills? Thanks for your response. I am searching for the quickest safest method and I have had it for three months now and my husband doesn't even know what I did:( I refuse to lie so I just don't say anything and he doesn't say anything but I know he's wondering.

Sometimes we try to be to perfect and we don't want to age, but after this experience and I also had a bad botox experience, I think we just need to be happy with who God made us. Never use botox under the eye area either. Use radiesse or restalyne because they're both reversable if it goes wrong. I wish I knew that before I had this done. I know a doctor in New York who can correct this problem for you who is supposed to be the best. 90% of his cliental is correcting other doctors mistakes. Email me back if you want his info., I'm considering flying there myself soon if these nodules don't leave.

Sorry to hear about your bad experience. I hope this convinces people to see ONLY one of the few Sculptra experts in the country. There my be only 6 doctors in the WHOLE USA I would trust to have a Sculptra procedure done with. They were trained personally by Dr. Danny Vleggaar and Dermik Labs.

Thank you. I did see one, but he felt the problems were more than he could help correct. Oh boy.

Hi Cassie, Thank you truly for emailing me. Believe me, I was pretty happy with my God given looks, but decided to 'just' have a consulutation. I thought, wrongly, what could it hurt to just talk to this doctor about available procedures. Got swept up in what he was saying, not what he wasn't saying about the risk and it "seemed" from what I was told during the consultation, so harmless. I didn't research it myself (makes me feel even worst to just have given my trust oh and lots of wasted money away, than the side effects (actually painful). I have seen one dr. who does correcting, but he was afraid I wouldn't be happy with the correcting results. He was honest instead of just taking the money. Can you please give me the other doctor's number. Believe me, I learned a big lesson, I won't repeat. Thank you much.

Hi there, I actually feel really bad for my husband, he comes homes after work dealing with day to day stress, in my case, since the side effects, not only look bad, but hurt under my eye and I am aware of this "stuff" in various other injected thin areas constantly, I am always going on about "what was I thinking", "how can I get this out"? He certainly doesn't know how to help me, feels bad, but after a while, I sure he is thinking please,can't you move on to something else. I wish I could.

Wait...you can actually have Restylane placed on top of the inferior orbital rim/upper cheek rather than in the tear trough?

who are these six doctors? can i get names and cities since i am considering having my eye hollowing done.

Hi I had restylane injected in my under eye hollows 3 years ago it's only now going from under my left eye the right eye still looks ok. I think that's pretty good considering the doctors only say it'll last about a year. I think the key is to find a doctor who knows what he's doing. Mine was an eye specialist. He put the restylane (sp? eek) under the muscle. Re sculptra: I have just had sculptra injections - 3 vials over 2 visits. My doctor is a maxo-facial (sp again? double eek) who is a consultant for the NHS (I live in the UK). I was apprehensive after reading the posts on this website and it was a toss up whether I went for the last injection. You know what - I love the effects. I asked him about the under eye circle (bag actually) under my left eye and he said sculptra wasn't used for the periorbital region but he put a bit as near as possible while still being in my cheek area. I don't know how good it'll end up being but it looks a bit better to me already. I had the last injection 2 weeks ago, the first 2 injections in early september. Even I can see an improvement. Yes it hurts, I recommend a numbing cream it seems to help a bit, I asked for that at my last appointment. My advice for what it's worth - find a doctor who is experienced and knows what he's doing.

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I had Sculptra starting November 2007. I did 3 sessions over approximately 6-8 mo. I have been extremely satisfied. It took away that tired look. I am 57 yrs old and am told I look much younger. Will probably have some more done.