“Botched job”
Eyelid Surgery: NOT worth it
Cost: $8,000
Pain: Uncomfortable
Pain: Uncomfortable
Eyelid Surgery satisfaction: Poor
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Why: David Williamson performed a botch job on me and refuses to man-up about it. I asked for a refund and he refused and when I asked for a copy of the surgical report it came back altered to protect him against litigation. This is a man I put my face and my trust in and he absolutely let me down. I look a freakish mess like a burn victim, and it's affected my whole outlook on life and my happiness because I avoid people now due to the way I look. Beware bad surgeons. They take your money and run...after wrecking your looks first, that is.
Be very careful who you get to perform plastic surgery. Mine was a total botch job and now I look like a burn victim. The blepharoplasty I had done is a mess and now I live like a hermit because I am too ashamed to face folks. My surgeon refuses to help or reimburse me, telling me to hit the road, basically. Nice eh
Sep 26, 2008Comments and replies (12)
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1 post
23 Nov 2008
I had Blepharoplasty 3 years ago and it was a very botched job. The plastic surgeon {doctor information edited} stitched my eye up too much and later had to remove the stitch and caused damage to my eye resulting in permanent redness to the eye. My eyes are not symmetrical and look injured all the time. I had beautifal eyes before this, big, clear and bright. It resulted in severe depression and then thoughts of suicide. The surgeon was careless, didn't care about the results he gave me, and did a hacked up butcher job on me and I have to live with it the rest of my life. My life has been ruined because of this - I can barely go out in public. -- Editor note: If you would like to review your experience with a particular provider or clinic, please write your treatment review and enter the provider or clinic name in the field provided.
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19 Nov 2008
I went to Costa Rica to have a facelift, eyebrow, and upper and lower eyelid lower eyelift with Dr. Manuel Chacon in the city of San Jose, Costa Rica. Unfortunately, my results are less than satisfactory. The scars were badly placed during my upper eyelid lift: the scar extends out on the lateral corner of my eye with hooded skin overlapping. I now look at least ten yrs older with freakish eyes. My doctor refuses to do anything about this and denies that this is his fault. I learned a big lesson. Don't ever leave the country.
24 posts
30 Dec 2008
Hi again ccacr: Are you saying that you have successfully sued your doctor? If so, can you send the info so I can pass it along to the 3 women who have all had botched breast surgeries asap please! They are really struggling. Thanks. PS I use the other site on realself.com called costa rica surgeries is it safe
6 posts
31 Dec 2008
no i have not successfully sued but i do already have a lawyer. I know it will be a long process but i am not letting this go without a fight. My friend (costa rican) is helping me. my doctor does not even know what to do now so he can not offer to fix it. and i wouldn't let that arrogant !!!touch me again anyway.
6 posts
2 Jan 2009
I have been in contact with one patient and have seen blogs on 2 others that are very serious in nature that went to my doctor. (i hate to even call him that because would never let him touch me again) I have not been able to contact them and I wish I could because the one, Cynthia said she is suing him. Her incident cost her $60,000 and a month in the hospital when she got back to the states. If anyone has had contact with her please get her to contact me. The other one live here in Costa Rica in Tamarindo and hers was also of serious nature. She had Dr. Luis da Cruz help her because Fournier would not.
15 posts
7 Jun 2009
your story is pretty much like mine. But I still think I got it worst. I was only 27 when this slasher did this to me. Please google my story "dr. richard a. weiss blotched". I am depress from time to time. I look very funny.........
3 posts
4 Oct 2009
I had a bad upper bleph. Five, yes, five revisional surgeries. One eye is still bigger than the other. The doctor did the left eye and she let a student do the right eye. I am severely depressed over the results. I went from a happy person, to a very unhappy person over this. I would recommend NOONE have upper bleph surgery. You just don't know how it will turn out. In my case, the student took too much skin out of the right eye, and my eye is much smaller than the left one. The doctor was more intersted in her student practicing on me than doing a good job. I will never get past this.