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Almost 4 months
Well the banding is here, but only on the right hand side of my neck, strangely. It's so ugly and when I see dr
Machida I'm going to ask about having a touch up/redo. I didn't have surgery and take time off of my life to have this ugly banding still visible.
I have botoxed the bands, to no avail. Dr. Machida called the banding "adhesions" and wanted to see me at the 4 month mark, which is next Friday. I'm sure he will suggest a course of action at that time. Either that or he will say "That's the way things go" and that will be that. I'm not sure.
New update in one week.
Machida I'm going to ask about having a touch up/redo. I didn't have surgery and take time off of my life to have this ugly banding still visible.
I have botoxed the bands, to no avail. Dr. Machida called the banding "adhesions" and wanted to see me at the 4 month mark, which is next Friday. I'm sure he will suggest a course of action at that time. Either that or he will say "That's the way things go" and that will be that. I'm not sure.
New update in one week.
Before and after comparison photos
Hello friends, here are my latest photos.
Despite vertical neck banding having returned (see my last post) it's important to show that this surgery removed a lot of extra skin that was "bagging" around my neck. This was super obvious when I would look down, catching my reflection in the glass of my phone or if someone took a photo of me from the side.
I have since had filler in my lips, so that will look different, but other than my eyebrows I have no make up on in these photos.
I dont know what to tell you about the vertical bands as I dont see Dr. M til the end of this month. I had the bands noticed and they have relaxed somewhat, but they are still there. I do modeling so I cant have ugly bands on my neck during photoshoots where everything sticks out 1000%
I had surgery so I wouldn't have to do neck botox for years anymore. And now I back to spending hundreds a month AGAIN. I had a CORSET PLATYSMAPLASTY, there should be no bands.
Despite vertical neck banding having returned (see my last post) it's important to show that this surgery removed a lot of extra skin that was "bagging" around my neck. This was super obvious when I would look down, catching my reflection in the glass of my phone or if someone took a photo of me from the side.
I have since had filler in my lips, so that will look different, but other than my eyebrows I have no make up on in these photos.
I dont know what to tell you about the vertical bands as I dont see Dr. M til the end of this month. I had the bands noticed and they have relaxed somewhat, but they are still there. I do modeling so I cant have ugly bands on my neck during photoshoots where everything sticks out 1000%
I had surgery so I wouldn't have to do neck botox for years anymore. And now I back to spending hundreds a month AGAIN. I had a CORSET PLATYSMAPLASTY, there should be no bands.
3 months post - very upset about returned banding
It's only on one side.
Visible ALL THE TIME.
I had surgery so that I would not see banding, so as you can imagine I'm very upset that it's visible all the time again.
I followed the instructions to the letter, including no exercise other than walking for over 2 months, so this shouldn't be happening.
Visible ALL THE TIME.
I had surgery so that I would not see banding, so as you can imagine I'm very upset that it's visible all the time again.
I followed the instructions to the letter, including no exercise other than walking for over 2 months, so this shouldn't be happening.
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4550 Ontario Mills Pkwy., Ontario, California