34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:
Lifestyle lift provider: Not specified
The Procedures: I had 2 LSL's in Plymounth Meeting, PA.
- The 1st: It did nothing & when I complained I was told I was holding my head incorrectly! My jowels & turkey neck were back once the swelling went down (4 weeks). The pain, bruising & swelling that took place after the surgery were incredible. I was NOT prepared for them in any way. I need to take special medications in order to tolerate pain meds & since I was told there was no pain, I was not prepared for what I experienced. I was lulled into a false sense of ease regarding this very invasive procedure.
- The 2nd: A true disaster. After waiting weeks for the doctor, she finally scheduled me. The day of the re-do I waited 7 hours for my appointment! I still look the same after 2 procedures, but now I have horrific scars down both sides of my face, stabbing pain, incessant itching, sutures coming through the skin, lumps & bumps, my ears are in the wrong place causing pain & each time I shower my ears now fill with water. This never happened to me before. My ears constantly feel like I've just come in from the freezing cold & they are defrosting, very painful. I can't even wear earrings unless I want to suffer more pain. My face is askew due to being pulled in the wrong directions. LSL has ignored all attempts by me to speak with the doctor. I've requested a refund many times to no avail.
The Consultation: Beware, we were given a line that only a savy, skilled sales professional could deliver. Every question was brushed over with a rehearsed line. Everytime a question was raised about the procedure or recovery time I was pushed in front of the mirror & my face tightly pulled back to show me what I'd be missing if I didn't sign up. They said I was the perfect candidate for LSL & that I was the kind of patient it was intended for.
The Waivers/Consents: I signed my paperwork the day of surgery while sitting on the operating table, after my hand bag had been taken from me so I didn't even have my reading glasses! The nurse tech offered to point to where I was to sign. I asked to read the papers & I was told the doctor was on her way in & we didn't have time. The nurse told me flatly, without hesitation that she didn't know why they put all those papers in front of us anyway, it's medical mumbo jumbo that never happens to anyone, anyway. I was given about 3 minutes to sign before the doctor came in.
Shame on Lifestyle Lifts for not allowing women to make an informed decision based on the truth.
I stumbled on this site looking for cosmetic dentistry and was shocked reading this post. I had a lifestyle lift last January in Ft' Lauderdale and it turned out really good---the doctor was very informative and he did a great job.
How can you say they told you there would be no pain? it's a face lift. I signed a consent form that listed exactly what to expect and any complications that might happen.
All plastic surgeons have consent forms with warnings that you have to sign. I absolutely can't believe that
my experience was completely different. And I can't believe a company like this, that is nationwide, would risk something like that---sounds very strange.
I just don't believe it. I had a great experience
Hi, sorry to see how angry you've become.
Well, just in case there are any actual ladies looking for real info, I stand by my review. We were misinformed & mislead. Not just me but many others. We were finally brought together by an NBC10 news story which has since generated 2 more, with more to come. Until that time we thought we were alone, the only one with our type of complaint, but low & behold when the story ran we realized that we were in fact, not alone at all. Then, Lifestyle Lifts promptly sued all of us for complaining & even though we all have it in writing, twice, once by regular mail & once by certified mail, they deny the suit on the message boards.
Go to NBC10.com, to the NEWS bar on the left & click on VIDEO, in the box to the right click on SEARCH & type in a few words from the title of the report. You have to go back & put each one in separately, so make sure you do & see all 3 reports. If this is in fact a woman & not a plant, this might open your eyes & calm some of your misplaced hostility.
Report # 1 shown on 10/10/2006 - Women Upset with Facelift Results, Report # 2 shown on 11/7/2006 - Scarred Women Tell Investigators About Facelift Results, Report # 3 shown on 11/29/2006 - Investigators Take Another Look At Lifestyle Lifts.
If this is who I think it is, all that anger is going to give you a stroke, you're already overweight. Haven't reached your quota of law suits today or are you soooo mean because you have to answer for yourself now? Hey valium anyone, we have somone here to prescribe!
I looked for those videos and - guess what? - they no longer come up on search. I would be willing to bet that Lifestyle Lifts threatened that TV station with a lawsuit also!
Everyone who had bad results should get together and file a class action suit against this company and individual suits against the doctors.
Absolutely! My husband, my mother and myself; we all had the procedure in 2007. We are so unhappy with the results. I am only 47 and I wanted to lift some incipient sagging of the jawls, so when I found this procedure and I thought it was a safe answer. I took my husband, who had loosed skin under his neck and my mother who is 67 wanted to have a lift too. After almost a year, we all looked the same if not worse. My mother does not even looks like herself. The procedure not only did not help, but my mother's eyes have not stopped hurting. She has also had pain on one side of the head for almost a year. Her eyes tear constantly and at the same time are so dry. She can't stand any bright light or wind, because her eyes hurt and get so dry. After seeing 3 eye surgeons and a neurologist it appears that the surgeon injured a nerve in her eye and he trimmed too much skin from her upper and lower lid, which causes the eye not to close completely. The only solution to her eye problem now is another surgery to "relax" the muscle to let the eyelid drop and to get a skin draft from the back of the ear to add to the shortened upper lid. It is a nightmare!!! She has not stopped complaining for a year and there is no way to improve it.
All of our ears are sewed down to our face, one of my mothers is longer, she can wear earings, one of my husband's has not recovered any sensation and it is completely numb.
We went to the StyleLift office and they gave us the brush off. They did not even took notes, they just wanted to have pictures to cover their ass. IT IS A SCAM! IT IS DANGEROUS!! I WANT TO JOIN ANY CLASS ACTION SUIT. Please contact me if you know if anyone has started one. IF SOME OF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS SUEING THEM, CONTACT ME.
Ana,
Please e-mail me if you are still interested in other complaints involving Life Style Lift. I won't say it on this board, but I have new information.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Hi Lily,
Please e-mail me if you want information on others with complaints about Life Style Lift. You're right, they are suing the TV stations that have run the reports & although no verdicts have been rendered, Lifestyle Lift has managed to effectively suppress the discontent of their patients. I'd like to get this to a national, rather than local level. In my opinion,if you haven't done this procedure, don't do it.
I would like to know if anything is being done - I want my money back. I only have about 2 months until the statue of limitations will end for me. My chin sagged about 6 mo after the procedure.
PLEASE!!! SOMEONE TELL ME THEY WERE AND ARE STILL HAPPY WITH THE LIFESTYLE LIFT. I'M THINKING IT WILL TAKE LONGER THAN AN HOUR AND I DO EXPECT SOME PAIN. I WAS TOLD I WOULD BE GIVEN SOME PAIN MEDICATION TO TAKE HOME WITH ME. MY THOUGHT IS IF ONE FOLLOWS ALL THE DIRECTIONS GIVEN THEY SHOULD RECOVER WITH A MUCH BETTER PROFILE.
THANKS,
NANCY
I am a surgical tech for a plastic surgeon in the nyc area and from what you have wrote you don,t seem like the type of person that would allow anyone to just do whatever they please with your person. Why did you not just stop the the whole procedure from the moment you thoght the situation did not seem write. My question to you is what were you expecting? Did you want to be 20 again? If that was the case you were only lying to yourself. It seems that you were not happy and so therefor you need to say negative things about the life style lift as they are calling it these days. one more question, Why do you not have any feed back on your web about the positive, o thats write you were lied to??? I have seen many patients with good!!!! results and are very happy. Whats with the person that took her husband and her mother to the life style lift center what did she want a three for on deal. If it did not look correct when she did it why put the people you love through the same ordeal ????? I dont know why i am even wasting my time you will never let anyone see this. All I can say to you is I will pray that you find peace with yourself and may you never find the way to our office bye
All I want to know is do they do the rubber band surgery? I've been told not to have this type of face lift done because it's not very good. I do hope that someone will answer this question soon for me as I have an appointment soon.
Well, Mae, you must not be too bright. You cant even spell right the right way. It is not write when you use it in sentences like you did two different times.
I sure hope that lady never does find her way into your office. Yeah you keep praying!!!!!!! That will really fix her face and eyes that were messed up by that procedure. People do read these blogs to see what is going on with this surgery.