Sculptra: Stories

SEVEN vials...wow that's a lot...how much was each vial?

I do not understand what doesnt make sense to you. Sculptra was injected in my face by a board certified plastic surgeon who arrogantly thought he knew what he was doing and didnt need to bother reading the instructions of professional literature or warning me. I got lumps withing the first week, it was very painful. withing 3 months i had developed chronic granulomatous inflammation. i was put on steroids and developed a biofilm infection and still the lumps. i had multiple surgeries and I still have lumps and what i call the sculptra sickness. immune system dysregulation from the persistent foreign body reaction. And NOBODY will tell me when this junk will be degraded and out of my body. Sculptra has murdered me.

Hey big wil1. This is just one person's opinion but I think you look GREAT in the picture before, I think it's the fourth one. Your cheekbones, everything, combine (at least in that particular pic) to make a very good-looking person. I don't think you even needed it! But I know we all want what we want. I have had two of sculptra, with no adverse effects. I looked sooooo good for about three days after from the swelling. Just what I have always wanted my too long and too thin face to look like. Then it went down and it really, really doesn't seem to have been worth it. I barely have gotten anything from it, imo, when i think back. I did get a deal on it (cannot remember what I paid) but I haven't seen the results that make it worth it (although I did appreciate those few days....) I had lost a lot of weight and looked awful since I was thin to begin with. I couldn't wait for it to go back into the face. I did manage to gain every pound back (had fun sitting on the couch and eating whatever I wanted!) and thus when I returned to the doctor she was proud that the sculptra had supposedly worked. Little did she know that I had put on some "pretty" weight AND done radiesse in the interim!!! That was why I looked better, not from the sculptra. Oh well

Dru11, PLEASE PLEASE share more what actually happened? I have a doctor who first recommended Juvaderm but now that and I think it seems very expensive and doesn't sound great from reports but what you are saying is very serious and almost as bad as Awok (Angela) with the fraxel. I am so greatful for this website.

Hi Becca, 

Based on the communities doctor experience, maybe your doctor wants to wait for 3 months between to see how everything will settle before they add more. Did you ask your doctor why he wants to wait? 

Thanks,

-Britt

My doctor has me waiting 3 months also. I have read so many different waiting times but 3 months does not seem out of the ordinary. I had 2 vials 5 weeks ago and do not see any change.....waiting and hoping.

It is usual -- they do make you wait. But it doesn't work one bit. So I say save your money for something better....once it arrives.

She used sculptra...But i was only seeing those strange results in the early period, Now after my 6th vile im geting more consistant filling though at night im a little less puffy.

I know! I had scupltra and thermage done in Miami and it was $5,000. Not that much change. Not worth it.

I have 2 weeks left before my 6th vile start to show results but even at this point i am so very pleased with the results...I look so much much more healthy. the 4500 dollars for 6 viles was so very worth it!

HiBigwil, have just taken a look at your latest photo with your girlfriend. What a huge difference, you look amazing. It really does do the job doesn't it.