Lifestyle Lift: Stories

I agree with Gailmail. I checked with LSL but I did not feel comfortable with their method of Valium or in office surgery facility. I did not like LSL sale pressure and the fact that they could not provide me the name of the surgeon so I could check his/her credential . I chose to have a full facelift, necklift and eye lids fat removal with a certified well known Plastic Surgeon Dr. Adam Rubinstein. I had 2 consultations with him in 5 months before I decided to do the procedures. I also talked to some of his patients . As I have high blood pressure and other medical problems , I made sure I had a thorough medical check up and approval from my own family doctor for the surgery. I made sure my family Doctor discussed with my PS about my surgery procedures . 2 doctors opinions are better than one. My PS explained throroughly to me what he was going to do to me during surgery. He is also Chief Plastic Surgeon for Jackson North Hospital where the surgery took place. I also watched youtube videos about the facelift procedures, there are many of them. I am 62 years young but I wanted my surgery performed in a well equipped hospital Operating room with a certified Anathesist Doctor and Pain management doctor. I did not want to be awake when the Doctor cut into my face. I would not be able to handle it. The surgery went well. When I woke up from the surgery in my hospital room, my PS and my husband were there with me. I felt no pain as the pain medication was good. I took the option to stay one night at the hospital in a private room under the care of a nurse. The nurse gave me cold compresses throughout the next 48 hours. I was given light food and juices. Before I checked out , the nurse washed my hair and helped me to shower.The Hospital Option cost me couple thousand dollar more but my safety and comfort well worths it. My PS visited me again next morning. I felt very good so I went home next day. Before going to the hospita, I cleaned my bedroom with bleach, put new bed sheet ,made chicken soups and some soft dishes so I only had to rest, watched Neflix/TV. My PS and my Family doctor called few times to check on me . My PS gave me his cel number and his email so I can communicate with him anytime. He returned my calls rapidly and replied to my emails the same day . All my post op procedures i.e bandage , drain, suture removals were performed personally and very gently by my PS in his office. I had Vicodin pill and had someone drove me to post op doctor checkups. He made sure I did not see any bloody bandage or drain or whatever stitches he removed behind my ears, otherwise I might freak out. The bruising and the swelling went away slowly after couple week. I still have some numbness on my cheeks. My family doctor also wanted to see me few times after the surgery. He likes the result . After 2 months Dr. Rubinstein gave me Latisse to grow long lashes and it works. I now have beautiful long lashed to add to my new eyes . After 3 months he gave me a complete high performance skin care products. I am 4 months after the surgery and everyone says I look 15 to 20 years younger. I am happy with the result. I believe the ftummy tucks ,facelift , necklift etc surgery are serious procedures and should absolutely be performed by a very experienced Board Certified Plastic Surgeon in a well equipped surgery room with sufficient emergency equipments just in case. Ideally the surgery room should be in a hospital or close to a hospital emergency room .There are skin removal ,cuts and stitches , bleeding, swellings , bruises . Patient should take time to do research and verify the Plastic Surgeon credetials. Have consultation with few PS before decide. Ask to see the doctor's office surgery room . Watch youtube videos to understand the procedures. Talk to your own family doctor. The PS and his office must provide the patient with efficient post op wound care , pain medication and antibiotics to prevent infection. They must also provide some moral comfort to the patient. The patient like me usually is afraid, fearful and lost after the facelift procedures . We look up to the doctor and his staff for re-assurance . The patient's emotional state is vital for the healing. We worked hard for our money and we have rights to be treated nicely after any medical procedures.

Miami Beach, Thanks for posting this information. I am so glad that you were so diligent in researching the procedure and finding a good doctor. Too many women are falling for the commercials that Lifestyle Lift uses and if they don't do their research or get a 2nd opinion, they could very well wind up very unhappy. Please keep us posted as to how you are doing. Best, Chrystal Eckes.

Wow, I was having doubts and I certainly wished I had done what you said. Wound up with hematoma's at the back of my head. He didn't really want to come all the way back and see me. My husband told him he was taking me to an ER, then he agreed. He squeezed out handfuls of blood according to my husband. Told me I had some drainage. I'm a nurse. The pain was excruciating. I knew what it was. Swelling behind my ears is extreme and now have some in front as well. I am really hoping this heals up ok.

Bgibsonrnc, sorry to hear that you are having problems. I hate to hear that one more person has had a LSL and are now suffering. This just does not stop. I am so sorry. I hope that Dr. Ho will take the time with you that you deserve and try to help you. See, this is what I keep warning people about. I do not necessarily think that is is all the physicians fault. They expect the Dr. to accomplish so many lifts a day, a quota so to speak. There is just no way that a LSL doctor can accomplish in one hour what would take another plastic surgeon 4 hours to do and do a good job. And I had the same problem that you are having, a doctor moonlighting for LSL and having his own practice on the side. Does this not raise a BIG RED FLAG to anybody else? I do not understand why a Doctor with an established business would want to associate him or herself with LSL! Please people, take the time to research this company. Even if the doctor you are using has no complaints on his medical record or on the net does not mean that a LSL will work for you! Take the time and get a 2nd opinion. Best, Chrystal Eckes.

I am sincerely sorry to have to report this, but your "improvement" very well may not last. My results lasted only a very short time, sadly that is the common experience of many, many LL patients. Do you think the company is unaware of that?? Of course not, yet they continue to perpetuate fraud.

I respectfully have to disagree with you on one major point: it IS as much the surgeons fault, as it is, Lifestyle Lifts. Every doctor who works for them fully knows the difference between doing a good job, and doing a rush Job. They are all taught to "DO NO HARM". Yet they continue to damage us, putting money first. As I complained to my MD: "I bet that during your long quest to become a surgeon, you were never taught to NOT see your own post-op patients". He had no answer for that.

You have to realize that what you said about "no way that a LSL doctor can accomplish in one hour what would take another plastic surgeon 4 hours to do and do a good job" is understood by not only you but by that doctor as well, so why DOES he do it? Plastic Surgeons do not have difficulty getting work...lets not feel sorry for those who work for LSL. The are fully aware that what they do there is wrong, yet they continue to abuse us!

Bgibsonrnc, Sorry to hear you're suffering. How are you doing now ? Keep us informed. Hope you are healing ok.

Hey Gailmail, I think that you misunderstood what I meant by what I said. What I mean is that LSL trains their surgeons in a particular manner that they want these lifts performed so that they can be accomplished quickly. An outdated surgery that was last used in the late 60's and early 70's. I do not feel sorry for any LSL surgeon and would think that they would know better, especially surgeons with several years under their belt. This being said, there are instances when a new doctor just starting out might think that this is the only way that they can get their start in the business. I do hold LSL entirely responsible for the manner in which they run the clinics & training techniques but doctors and other people who work there must see the harm they are doing. I had hoped that by women telling their stories that LSL would make changes and improve the way that they were treating the clients. I just don't think that they have make much progress if any. I will be careful in the way that I word statements in the future so to make myself clear. Thank you for pointing this out to me. Best, Chrystal Eckes.