Juvederm: Stories

I am depressed beyond belief as well but I totally agree. None of these fools know what they are doing. Everything just gets worse and worse and worse the more you let them 'fix' it. I am saving my money, leaving it all alone and concentrating my energy on learning to live with the horrendous disaster of a face that the incompetent and unscrupulous medical profession has left me. Look at us all with horror stories. How do they sleep at night?

I feel very lucky i just happened to get a good doctor. I just posted that i get small amounts at a time and we wait for the results before i get the full amount. So far everything has gone well except my eyes bruising and puffy. I still use arnica montana pills and also rub the creme on at night. Somedays i wake up with almost no more brusing or lines and other days its a bit worse. I went to an eye surgeon and after reading all this, i wouldnt have anyone but an eye surgeon do anything. I didnt post the name of my doctor but it is Dr. Myint in Las Vegas. He is very good, takes his time and I don't think would let me go home with bad results. But then again, in general i don't trust doctors but i have faith in this one.

Hello, I have recently have Juverderm under my eyes and one side looks perfert and the other side looks like I got stung from a bee... My church memebers are asking if I have allergies. I went back to the doctor and he said that I look fine and if he dissolves if he is going to charge me and walked into another appointment and left me there. He was very rude and showed no compassion to my concern after he got my 550.00. I look good only on one side. The side that looks swollen has a dark bruise that cant be covered with makeup. It has been 2 weeks now and the bruise is not going away...I tried ice, massaging and fading cream. Did the arnica help? Where can I purchase it? Did your bruising go away and how long it took?

How disappointing for you! And how horribly rude of the doctor to treat you like that. Please do not let the doctor dissolve the filler with hyaluronidase. Read my hyaluronidase review and the other reviews about hyaluronidase. Only 13% of the reviews rate dissolving as worth it. If it has only been two weeks, so a lot of what you are seeing is swelling and bruising. It is possible that your doctor hit a small blood vessel under your eye and bruises in this area can take a long time to heal. You can purchase Arnica gel from any drug store. It is not expensive. Careful with putting to much cream under your eyes and massaging too much as you might cause milia (the little white cysts) to form. Let us know how you are progressing. Cheers, K

Have you got good news about juvederm experience under your eyes?
I did it 2 months ago and now I want to know diferents opinions because I'm a bit scared.

Hi, Sorry, but I did not note the 12 day history, so I agree with you that the patient should wait a few more weeks before considering hyaluronidase. We have been using Widase for about 15 years for facelifting and blepharoplasty without any untoward effects. Although allergic reactions have been reported, and some advocate skin tests before using hyaluronidase, we have not experienced any reactions. The concentration of hyaluronidase that we use to help dissolve excess hyaluronic acid is very dilute (the same concentration used in the local anesthetic mix for blepharoplasty/facelifting). Bruising at 12 days should be just about resolved and discolored, but a great deal of swelling should not be present, and is most likely related to the excessive hydrophillic effect of Juvederm in the lower eye lid area. I hope that by the time this reaches our patient, that your symptoms have resolved. Be well. Dr. P

No, I am not pleased at all. How could I be? I have been nine months now and look like I haven't slept in weeks. I work constantly with the public, a day hasn't gone by when someone has asked if I'm tired or been ill. This is exactly why I had the Juvederm to begin with..I look worse than ever. AND, I have/had a PC who thinks I'm stupied and continues to tell me he has no idea what happend... but... he will continue to search for an answer by consulting other PC at seminars! If he has to ask for suggestions maybe he shouldn't be injecting??? How can a licenced PC turn their back on a patient when they are the one they caused the problem? So there is no misunderstanding he has done ZERO.

It has been nine months not 12 days. The "brusing" is actually discoloration from the Juevederm. According to other PC it was not injected properly.

I have been almost nine months with a injection form Juvederm under both eyes. I have been back to the Doctor three times and he continues to tell me he has no idea? I went to another Plastic Surgeon he tells me that the Juvederm was injected in front of the muscle when it should of been injected behind it? He also said that the discoloration or bluish tint under both eyes is a stain from the Juvederm? He wants to inject hyaluronidase to reduce the puffy pillows and he gave me a perscription for some type of bleach for under the eyes. I'm very afraid and don't know which way to go or who to beleive. Can you help me?

Find someone who has lots of experience with using hyaluronidase to dissolve filler. This will be hard. I would suggest that you discuss how dilute the hyaluronidase is and schedule a series of appointments where small amounts are injected at a time. GET AN ALLERGY TEST IN YOUR ARM BEFORE YOU LET THEM INJECT IT ANYWHERE NEAR YOUR EYES. Quick question: have you had botox under your eyes or in your crows feet area since the juvederm in an attempt to 'fix' the puffiness?

No, never. Nothing but this one time injection of Juvederm.

You poor thing. Please let us know how you are progressing and what you decide to do. Cheers

hi, did you use botox to fix the under eye filler disaster? My derm, who is very well-known in Manhattan, has been trying to fill under my eye for SIX weeks. I have gone in every single week. I look terrible. Nightmare. I am embarassed to look at people and have to live in sunglasses. Now he says well, maybe a little botox to fix this. No thanks, his injection technique clearly sucks. Do you think I should use the hydro to dissolve it? Im tormented. I cant believe people cry over paying $600, I have paid $2500 just for the filler! I am fairly young and it was mild to almost moderate dark circles. Here they charge each time they touch your face, they can put in one tiny drop of filler and you get the full charge, it is not by syringe at all. Im miserable with how hideous I look. To top it off he first told me to go thru 5 "tightening" treatments and maybe I would not need filler at all, once the tiny bag was contracted it would be all better. That was 5 visits and $1,000. Then he told me that a few colors were making the circle dark and one color was red so out came the v-beam machine and 5 more visits and $1300 later he wrapped that up. Well this magical tightening I have never heard of did ZERO. The vbeam did zero because it doesnt work to do that under the eye. Then he said, oh, we need filler. And that brings me to where I am now. And now he is talking botox?! I have had literally 16 visits for him to do all this nonsense on my eyes, every single week for 16 weeks. Im fed up. I look terrible. Horrid. Monsterous. I think NYC is disgusting and the doctors are freaks and liars and scammers. It would not be like this at at all on the west coast. I should have never ever let any of them touch my face. I promised myself that I would fly back to the west coast but I then decided that I was being paranoid and there had to be good drs here too and I needed one here because there are always touch ups and those types of things. Im so mad at myself. I look horrid. I spent $4,700 so far to do something about the dark circles and little bags and I look like hell! I just had to keep going because he kept promising he would fix it. Now he said oh, it looks nice. WHAT?! Then he said, oh I see, it is not all working because we need botox. I hate him...I really do. And I am mad at myself even more because I KNEW NYC has the worse doctors in the country but I stuck my neck out anyways and look what happened. I am literally depressed because I cant locate another $4000 to pay another person to fix my under eye area. I have 2 choices: walk around looking disgusting or have it dissolved. What is your opinion? You seem more honest than these doctors. I am literally depressed over this. It is affecting my self-esteem because everytime I look in the mirror I see disgusting bags he made and pits and lumps and bumps and I feel like a fool. I told myself dont do it after his stupid tightening and vbeam scams but he told me I look so old and tired for my age and I already didnt like under my eye hence the reason I was there in the first place so it wasnt hard for him to drag me along. I look terrible and I am depressed. And I exhausted disposable income for this stuff. oh, his assistant gave me a bag of products he hocks and didnt even ask, just added $300 to the bill. They suck and I broke out everywhere. I stopped by to show him the break out and at least he admitted my clear skin was no longer clear but he charged me to tell me yes, his products broke me out! Another $200. Oh and another $250 for initial consultation fee. oh wait a minute, and another $250 for a glycolic peel to correct the reak-out and another $350 for juvaderm to a tiny scar on my forehead that his crap technique didnt work on. I have been taken to the cleaners and he just smiles and keeps doing it and I keep letting him because he makes me ugly and then promises to fix it! It is one thing he has not helped me but made my skin full of zits and my under eye look deformed but it is another how bad he has made me feel. I really feel badly. Scammed. Sad. Like a damn fool...a fool with disgusting filler job under the eye. And I am now paying another place to get 3 chemical peels to settle the acne, another $600. Im wiped out.