Quick Lift: Stories

First and foremost.....I think your results should have been better. FIRST AND FOREMOST....don't EVER go to a general practitioner or family practitioner for any type of plastic surgery. ONLY go to a board certified plastic surgeon, FAACS (Am Academy of Cosmetic Surgeons)....don't go back.....go to a board certified plastic surgeon. I would never spend $7000 for something I could finance for another $7000 and do a mid line endoscopic face lift which is natural looking..... my best to you and yours

Hey Katherine,,,,,,,,,,I just ran across this old post.......Hope you get this message....All of those pictures are after pictures.......there is only one before picture.......and that before picture was used in one of the pictures.......you can tell with one because I am holding the before picture in my hand.

Dear Remington.. I'd like to say this.. any doctor can botch things up and most will not tell you of the long term recovery when its a quick lift or a standard facelift. Already 6 months for me since I had the quicklift and I am still feeling a heck of a lot of pulling down on my ears and especially behind my ears. Its a heavy feeling, if it continues to keep pulling as it has been I'm sure that is excatly what its doing, pulling my face back down slowly. First read up on that part if nothing else! Find out how long it takes till you feel normal again and if this stretching and pulling can pull your face to an unnatural shape. From two inches out from my ears and just below the check bone and just above the jaw i'm still numb. The quicklift has dropped since the undermining (the amount of tissue that is pulled up under the skin) has relaxed, and now i have a more rounded face; not too bad but not like it was in the first stages of the game where I had a more oval shape. Just remember before you have this done.. you will still have old skin (not smooth) you will continue to age, not only your face but your skin and your whole body. Your recovery may not be as expected.. I have heard that the numbness may never go away entirely and that bothers me. I feel that as i continue to age eventually I will look old no matter what and just maybe I will age differently or worse because i did this to myself. In 10 years i won't care about my face so much anymore and it will be more about the quality of my life. I just want to be happy with who i am inside. A smile trumps wrinkles any day.. Pick people that love you for who you are and not what you look like, the same instructions our parents were suppose to tell us.

helped me....Im not going to him now

Hey Saphire...........just thought I would look at this old feed and I spotted your post. Yes it is hard to tell which pictures are before and after. there's nowhere to put comments. but the only before picture is the one where I am holding the before picture in my hand. That picture is the before picture. All the other pictures are after pictures. I didn't take any of my own before the surgery. I didn't even have a camera until after the surgery...I bought a digital camera because I just couldn't believe it was happening to me. And to this day I can hear that doctor telling me that he could see anything wrong. But eventually after I sent him tons of pictures.......he admitted that he could see what was wrong..........He did a second surgery at no cost......but to tell you the truth......he did nothing about the lopsidedness of my face.....Everything on the left side of my face is much higher and tighter.........the right side of my face has a strange cheek hump and then the rest is flat and appears to droop. He was suppose to fix my pixie ears and that procedure did not work at all........my ears are pulled down worse than after the first surgery. Even harder to explain.....but an anchoring suture, extruded behind my right ear about 10 months after the second surgery. The thread was coming out and back into my skin. No loose end. So I cut the thread in hopes that it would go back into the skin. No luck. 2 years now and that threat is still sticking out and I have to wear a bandaid all the time. It still oozes. Yes I've been to a doctor....but they won't do anything. I refuse to go back the doctor that did this. He wanted to do lipo and fat fillers in hopes of evening things out......but the differences in the sides are tooooo great. All I have been doing is saving my money all over again and hoping it won't cost me too much to have this fixed.
My mother gave me a laptop last year and I still haven't downloaded my camera program into it. I guess taking pictures of this was driving me crazy........But I just might download it to send updated pictures. I hope you get this message........

Thank you for your support. I do want to add that several months ago I had an appointment with a regular medical doctor for possible high cholesterol. I had never seen the doctor before. After talking with her for a while, I mentioned my facelift. I told her what happened. She told me that she instantly noticed my face and said that when she first looked at me, she thought that I had had a stroke. She noticed that my right eye, cheek and lower face had a droop to it. Can you imagine?? I do have movement in the right side of my face......but it does droop. The revision surgery that the doctor did only created more volume in my left cheek and the right cheek remained flat. I no longer can wear blush. It only caused more distortion to my face.

Thanks again

GEEZE... i notice that you just made this comment almost 2 years after your lift and thats horrible!!! So you are saying that nothing was done in all this time to fix the problem that doctor deny's you have? I feel really sorry for you, I mean you even said at one point that you didn't blame the doctor but you just wanted something done to fix your face.. I will bet you blame the doctor now.. I mean i understand that you didn't want to put him down, with hopes that he would do something (not get irrate with you).. So how do you feel 2 years down the road and can you please post a new updated picture?