“Self Injecting Aquamid”

Thanks for your interest. What I meant to write is that doctors so far are not too excited to touch it. I am looking for a doctor that has experience in this area and would feel comfortable to cut it or remove it from my upper lip area. I want it to look normal again. I am at least hoping so.

aquamid can not be dissolved as it it not an hyluronic, it is a injectable implant. Firstly you need to assertain that the lump is the product and not inflammation which can be treated with steriods. As you have already tried to have the product 'squeezed' out your only other option is to see a plastic rescontructive surgeon to have the product surgically removed. I can not undertsand how and why anybody would purchase this type of product on line and inject themselves. Aquamid is only to be injected by extremely experienced injectors.

bad stuff, you cant take or cut it out as there are many tiny particles which mix with your own tissue, its impossible.

BUT how can you autoinject you, this is very risky and even with temporary filler dangerous...

i am so sorry for you

These coments prove to me that these sites can be just as dangerous as they are helpful. It is clear that the previous person or your self have absolutely no education on this product. Aquamid is a very safe product that has been used in Australia for more than 10 years with very few adverse events infact less than other non permanent fillers (recent study). The problem lies with novice/inexperienced people injecting ANY 'medical' cosmetic product. In Australia the only way you can receive any injectable is at a accredited medical practice,and suitably trained registered nurses must be working with a doctor in order to inject as they are all S4 (prescription only) drugs. Please educated yourself and change your thinking....All dermal fillers botox etc are MEDICAL treatments that enhance your appearance they are NOT beauty products

One of my friend had same problem for the Aquamid. She solved the problem with massage of the affected part. She had massaged every evening for long time. However, which does online source sell Aquamid ? My friend bougth it $500 at online source.

I would not recomment this to anyone. I got it at shop*********net. It was not called Aquamid, but had the same ingrediants as Aquamid. it is called:

Equal To Beautiful See Fine Gel Filler 1ml
Deep Filler 1 ml. This is a more permanent filler that will last longer because it is a sterile gel. This has been around for a while but has been very hard for us to get. We may not have it for long. This is for fine lines and wrinkles like crows feet. Hydrophilic polyacrylamide gel (HPG) is a combination of 2.5-5% polyacrylamide, a synthetic polymer, suspended in 95-97.5% apyrogenous water. This is the only injectable implant that remains soft once it has been injected. After injection the water content is absorbed by the body whilst the HPG becomes encapsulated. It remains soft and pliable like the body's own tissue. These products are non-toxic, antibacterial, non-sensitising, non-mutagenic, biocompatible and chemically stable.


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Price $118.00

I wish I never tried this. I once had normal fine looking lips, now they are lumpy, not portioned, horrible mistake.

I have tried their botox version and am satisfied with the product.

Dear All, Stay away from Aquamid or any permenant fillers. Doctors who say these are ok are just trying to make money and not tell their customers the real truth. Aquamid themselves take no action when problems occur. Why would anyone want to inject something in their bode when the manufacturers have this kind of approach? I had Aquamid injected 8 years ago in my lips and I still have complications. The product lumps up and causes lumps which are visible to the naked eye. It is also extremely painful. I was 19 when i got this done in Australia in About Face clinic. The doctor Michael (sorry i forgot his last name) told me that it would last at least 6 years, implying it would be gone after that. Thankfully throughout the years the Aquamid lumps came close to the skin and every so often I go to my plastic surgeon for him to puncture and suck out any product that is easy to access. I have already passed by this process a few times and am currently removing another lump. I am hoping this will be one of the last as I feel there is not much left since I did not have very big amounts inserted. Sometimes it does create problems as there are big portions of the gel which are stuck together and it seems to block the canals causing infections as it does not allow all fluid to come out. With antibiotics this is controlled but painful as sometimes the lip swells up until it breaks open with an inflammation. However this allows the product to come out, so I see it in a positive way. It really worries me people that have had big amounts injected as I think they will not be as lucky as me for the removal. All the best for all of you.

All I can say if that I am glad that in 8 years of struggles you are almost done with the effects of Aquamid. Thanks for sharing!

I wish you all the best too and please be very careful from now on. Choose a good doctor and do not put anything permanent unless its an implant that can be easily removed in one time. Also NEVER mix anything up with Aquamid, it is extremely dangerous. This product should be banned.
Good luck.

Can you explain more on the danger of mixing anything with Aquamid?
What do you think of Kenalog to help the swelling of the product?
How did your doctor excise the product?
It took 8 years to almost go away. Depressing, but also that it can be taken away is good.

On my lip doctors will try to excise it. Just for sanity I have been getting Kenalog shots.
I would like it all out of me...but every time the doctor sticks big needles into the lips to try to get it out, it seems so slow for the effort. It is hard to want to go back.

How often would you go in to have it excised?

Did you ever use Kenalog?

Did you have any Aquamid on your skin area?

Was that area on the skin able to go away or be taken out and if so, what method?

I want it out of my skin too, but doctors have told me it would leave just as bad of scar to take it out than to leave it in. When I stretch the skin in that area it is very visable white in appearance. It looks lumpy on my skin right under the corners of my lips, and between the top of the bottom lip and the bottom of my chin area.

Kenalog has worked well to shrink it, but in the case of my chin, it appears to have moved down some and have made a lump, like a small wide cist look. Doctors are hesitant to cut the skin telling me it will look bad with a scar there.

Will this product ever go away on it’s own? Will the lump where it spread or where it is stay there until it is excised?

It is very depressing trying to fix this problem I created. I appreciate all your knowledge in this area you can share.

Hello again. Apparently it is extremely dangerous to mix anything with Aquamid. Aquamid themselves say so. I guess if you do you might even have further complications if the two products react against each other. With already only 1 it is difficult for your body imagine with two that do not even combine together!

I don't think we will ever have it ALL out of us... but I do feel and incredible difference and I can only still feel some on one side of my lip. I cannot take it out right now as it is infected but my antibiotics worked really fast so I am hopping to take it in December (its always better to leave a few months of the area to not be infected to try and remove it instead of going in while everything is inflamed). I have an excellent doctor that does not want to make money, he wants to do things properly even if he has to wait a long time instead of getting money fast. I even pass by for free and when he thinks the time is right he tries to get a little bit more product out (this is when he charges me a minor amount as he knows how hard this has been and he rather split the process in as many times needed instead of charging a lot and trying to get it all out at one and scar me).

I never used Kenalog but I can give you the name of my antibiotics.

In my case the Aquamid was put way inside my lips. WIth time it started coming closer to the skin of the lip as thats when I saw the lumps forming. Everytime the lump is visible it means the product is near. My doctor with everything very sterile (PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS AT HOME!!!) has a special hollow needle with a kind of balloon at the end. So he punctures the lump and vacuums product through the hollow needle and then he massages the rest out. It hurts a little but its worth it. At the end of each consultation my lump is gone. In another fews months another lump forms ( i guess the product follows the last parts path or a lump somewhere else shows up) and he repeats the process.

He has never tried to take it all out at once as I said, but this way I have no scars and you cannot even notice anything is wrong unless it is the time it gets infected.

"When I stretch the skin in that area it is very visable white in appearance. It looks lumpy on my skin right under the corners of my lips, and between the top of the bottom lip and the bottom of my chin area. " this is when the lump is ready to go with the procedure I explained above. You have a small prick by a hollow needle, no cutting no scaring.... I thin it is called ASPIRATION...

I hope this helps...

Aspiration...thanks for correcting me. Thanks for sharing your other comments also!

Will you give me the name or telephone of your Dr.?

No doctor who I know who lives by me has had any prior knowledge with Aquamid other than me.

If he lived within driving distance which I highly doubt, I would go to him. Otherwise, i will try to get my PS to communicate with him on his experiences in removing it.

...also out of curiousity, what antibiotic were you given?