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I Was Realistic in my Expectations and Am Very Pleased

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Updated 3 Jan 2010
Posted 1 Jan 2010
Worth It
Spent: $7,800 in Clayton, MO

The pros: I got an estimate from a plastic surgeon for a regular face lift. It was over $20,000.

Cons: it was scary at the time.

I had the procedure done about 6 months ago. The swelling and hardness are gone, but it took about 3-4 months. My neck is not as good as I hoped it would be. But I have been studying my family and see that we all have a sloped neckline, even my thin 19 year old daughter. So my neck is as good as it gets for my genetics. I also had my lower eyelids done. That was the most dramtic difference. I think, overall, it was excellent. It may have been better if I had done the traditional surgery.

But I never would have for $20,000. I am very happy. My surgeon was in Clayton, MO. I recommend him. But I cannot speak to the other surgeons there. The pain I had the first night was horrible. But my husband, being worried about overdosing on pain pills, was not giving me the full dose. Once I took the full dose, it was no problem. You just have to take the next pill before the first one wears off.

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lifestylelift hater (14 posts) 8 Jan 2010
don't believe for a minute that this comment is REAL
Lou1948 (10 posts) 11 Jan 2010
I surprised but glad you're happy...
onepuglvr (5 posts) 21 Jan 2010
Anyone who was pleased with their results wouldn't search out a website to give their feedback! Its not like this site was sent to you to rate your experience. For what reason would you go searching? Why would someone totally pleased with their results go searching for a website to give your opinion. Makes no sense! Nope your lying? What LSL office do you work at? Or are you the founder? leave these people alone!!! Enough faces have been ruined. As for you - well watch out for karma! you,ll get yours someday!
Trinity 21 (4 posts) 29 Dec 2010
Guess what.. I don't work for them and I had the surgery and I don't have complaints. I am 54 had lower eyes done Nov 4 went back and had jowels and neck Nov. 11. I am glad I didn't see this site before I went. I am African American with a hernia scar on my stomach since I was six and a new gastric bypass scar from 02. No scars are in my face from the under eye. No scar in the front of my ear from the neck and nothing from the fat injections for jowels. But, everyone is different. I just knew I was going to see keloids again, just didn't know much to expect. But have nothing. Couldn't get a job looking like I was 70 but I am back in the mix looking 40. Sorry you had a bad outcome. Pain was so slight I still have the pain pills they gave me. Everybody is different. They gave me and my sister a new outlook on life... I know misery loves company but not everyone had a bad outcome.
bjgawle (120 posts) 29 Dec 2010
I agree with you . I do not beleive a word. I have seen too many with scars and one person says no scars! Amazing,Sorry we don't buy it
areyouserious (1 post) 25 Jan 2010
Anyone else notice that this story seems to give an answer for things that you might think people would complain about? Uneveness-> Every single person has a sloped neck in their family so theres no way its the procedure's fault Swelling/Hardness-> wait 3-4 months excessive pain-> take ur pills... its just really fishy.. seems like they are telling u what they think you need/want to hear.
Bits (359 posts) 22 Feb 2010
yes. Just as the website and ads stopped saying things we complained about. Why don't they just make it right by us, if we are such a minority with this company?? It sure would be easier for them, instead of suing every news station& website that tries to voice the opinions of hurt people.
bjgawle (120 posts) 29 Dec 2010
I agree with you very unreal from all we know.
bjgawle (120 posts) 29 Dec 2010
Again I agree why don't they make it right for the 100 of people that have scars and no difference in their proceedure.Scars that are visiable. I have scars all over and the eye lids on top are all white and you cannot cover them with eye shasow.Ears are pinned to your head.
bjgawle (120 posts) 29 Dec 2010
They are now doing laser on your face anyone out there going?LOL
Bits (359 posts) 29 Dec 2010
LOL- you are crazy. Yes, we have one foot bigger, one breast bigger, etc. But...a GOOD Dr compensates for this! He will put less saline in a bigger boob, more in a smaller. He'd adjust the foot to the appropriate size too.Ever hear the saying, 'YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR"? Go to a Board certified facial plastic surgeon, check medical boards, state agencies, boards, other patients, etc. If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is. In my opinion, I learned the HARD way. I believed the Dr , consultant& other personell's lies.
Bits (359 posts) 29 Dec 2010
Oh Yea BJ LOL
Ask them to save me 2? I already feel the 1st won't work& maybe the 2nd will kill me or cause staph/Mrsa infections from the holes burned in my face.Again, my opinion w/ a former LSL'er said in jest
i was pleased CA (1 post) 4 Feb 2010
I had my surgery about 3 1/2 months ago in CA I was very pleased with the results , the Dr follow up care etc. Yes there was pain the 1st 2 days and I took the pain pills On the 3rd day I switched to advil My neck looks so much better and I feel I look at least 5 years younger There is still slight swelling, very slight and very little bruising I am 71 years old and I am one of the happy ones Cost was $6300 not cheap but to me well worth it.
pamela123 (1 post) 8 Feb 2010
I had my surgery in 2006 and I love it. The Dr in Clayton Mo is very nice took his time with me and answered all my questions EVERY time I called or went there. ok, listen up, ITS SURGERY!! YOURE GONNA HAVE SOME SCARRING. AND YES YOURE GOING TO HAVE PAIN, HOW CAN YOU CUT AWAY PARTS OF YOUR FACE AND NOT HAVE PAIN! DUH! I feel younger, look great and would and will when its time do it again! LSL rocks in my opinion.
Bits (359 posts) 22 Feb 2010
DUH! Don't insult my intelligence! We knew some pain would be involved, we are not stupid.........The thing is, they never told us they would cut parts of our face apart! DUH! You show me one site, document, anything that explains what this does ,other than to say'It's a revolutionary, new breakthrough procedure that lasts about an hour. BS- This procedure was discarded in the 70's, I'm told, 'cause it doesn't last! DUH! You'd do it again? Geez, it's supposed to last 20 years and guess what, Ms. Duh! LSL has only been around for 10 years. So, do the math.....................
bjgawle (120 posts) 18 Sep 2010
LSL is all a advertising campaign to take peoples money and get nothing in return.After a year my scars around my eyes are now white and that will not go away.I have to live with this and pay them too. Where is our protection? BJ
bjgawle (120 posts) 29 Dec 2010
If you go to a real plastic surgeon and he does your eyes you will not have white scars on them.I know from experience.They shoud reveal all the scars to you up front and give you the choice to have it done or not but that is not the way it works for them. They told me all would be great!!!!! The Dr. never saw me untill right before the butcher job he done, not the way a professional does it.A professional will meet with you and go over all with you before he sees you for surgery and explain what to expect.
Bits (359 posts) 29 Dec 2010
I'd have rocks for brains if I ever went back there
Gustavo A. Diaz, MD (95 posts) 10 Feb 2010
I am very happy for you girls (Pamela, Pleased CA, and 57). it is incredible that you girls are not believed when you give a positive testimony. It is true, more people are willing to write something bad than something good. Anyway 200 reviews with 28% of them being positive clearly demonstrate this fact. We have to celebrate these 3 happy patients and the 100,000 others that are also happy.
Bits (359 posts) 19 Feb 2010
Dr Diaz, WHY would we go on a website to lookup LSL if we were pleased? We are trying to understand how a Doctor of medicine who supposedly has plastic surgery experience or is a P.S. wouild never call us back when we call with problems? If I didn't have major problems and pain still after 3+ years, I'd be out enjoying my life, not sitting here trying to understand why our stories have been the ' same ' for years. These women who posted didn't fly state to state to meet strangers to trash a medical center because they were happy! I believe the posts, that you are a fine& talented doctor, but really! This comment is typical of many LSL doctors who call us 'disgruntled' patients, 'expecting more than we thought'.. I only wanted a 'pick me up, refreshed look& for $4200.00, believe me that's all I was exppecting. Even though LSL's claim to fame says they make you look 20 years younger. I never believed that, but did believe it when the Dr. said it was a small incision in the fold of the ear, fading away in time. I healed very well, but looking at my incision, it is almost diagonal, too close to the face, not ear& way bigger than I was told. I got a song& dance from everyone at LSL& corporate offices & they never followed through. Can you tell me why I am in pain, severe tightness, back of the ear (on the bone) pain 3.5 years later? There was no surgical report. They handed me the consent form 15 minutes after I was given VERSED, & rushing me because the DR was ready for me. I was NOT allowed to read it & I had been there at 1:30 PM for a 2:00 procedure, that didn't start until 4 PM! My reading glasses were in my purse by my son & they told me it was a simple form to allow the DR to do the procedure. When I saw it was over 3 pages& I questioned it& told them I couldn't read it, I was read portions & they put big X's where i needed to sign. When I tell people this story, how do you think it makes me feel when they look at me like I am crazy?? They could have given me that form when I first got there ,like any Dr's office does, before they see a patient. When she read off 'possible nerve damage' and I said I wasn't going to do the procedure if that were possible, she said "It's like reading the label of a baby aspirin, they have to tell you& we have NEVER had a patient with nerve damage". I even drew a line in that paragragh. I don't have problems with you, I have problems with the very clever marketing people and the head honcho who allows those tactics.I am not only left with nerve damage, and pain, I am emotionally scarred because I had blind faith in a Doctor who swears to 'do no harm'. What you muse understand is , when we are trying to make sense of something so unbelieveable & do a search & are linked to a website& see that MANY women are telling 'MY' story, it is quite frightening that this is happening in the USA. So, forgive us, if we find it hard to believe a woman that is very happy with a procedure has nothing better to do with her life than sit on a website with her jaw to the ground,reading the people say exactly the same things about an experience,that I had, in shock. If I didn't have the problems that I was given by LSL, why in the heck would I ever be here, unless someone asked me to do it? Again, forgive us, we have been violated, misled and downright lied to. If I had wanted or needed a mid facelift, believe me I can afford it. I did not want to be cut open like I was.I thought I did my homework by seeing other P.S's & wasn't ready to 'go under the knife for a facelift'. What I was told & what I got were like' black & white', 'good& evil'. If you need further info, etc., feel free to click on my link. Just stop judging our bad experiences as if we expected to look like a Marilyn Monroe. We only wanted what they said we could expect to get.. I am sorry for the comments& racist remarks you recieved& have always said there are good doctors w/ this company, but I wasn't the recipient of that good Dr & good results.
lifestylelift hater (14 posts) 23 Feb 2010
PS -- there was one GOOD doctor at my center. When she found out what LL's practices were with clients (rushing them through with high pressure, etc) SHE LEFT -- but not before telling me (confidentially) that she was appalled. Being operated on by a dr who was not qualified was my biggest complaint. Second is the fact that I ended up with serious problems because LL REFUSED AFTERCARE. THIS IS REAL. Who refuses aftercare for a surgery patient?
truecolors (220 posts) 9 May 2010
Dear Dr. Diaz, A footnote (please read my May 8, 2010 posting): A 28% 'positive' rating is nothing to be proud of. In fact, 28% is REALLY BAD, something to be ashamed of. I'm surprised you brought it up at all! Good plastic surgeons have positive ratings of approx. 95%. If you, Dr. Diaz, think a 28% positive rating is something to boast about, then your standards have to be extremely low. You yourself as a plastic surgeon must have a low rating if you think 28% is good.
bjgawle (120 posts) 30 Dec 2010
The same thing happened to me they did not want me to read that form. If I would have been able to read it I would not have signed it....I was rushed.
bjgawle (120 posts) 30 Dec 2010
I agree with you 100%....
veryhappy (1 post) 12 Feb 2010
I too am very happy with my lifestyle lift. I had it done in January and have pretty much healed. The procedure was virtually painless and I had very little bruising. I also had the eyelid surgery and am very happy with that too. I had no trouble sleeping. The doctor was available afterwards. The staff was very knowledgeable. I couldn't expect it to be any better.

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