Evolence: Stories

By the way, it will be three years since injection and I still have lumps! And disfigurement from the cortisone injections.

What does your doctor say? mine says to wait it out!!!! insane! are yours getting better or worse? some days mine look abit better but lately they appear to be worse. im so upset and afraid of this not going away.good luck to you ...ill let you know if i find any treatment for this!!!

Can you reply with his #? I have similar problem and I was injected 18 months ago...lumps are getting BIGGER!??!?

You make a great point about fillers that are permanent vs ones that can be reversed. HA's such as Juvederm or Restylane. I see people say things on here like why would you do that when there is a permanent solution. Ex. Silicone in the lips. The thing is people if it's permanent (which btw Evolence is not, but there is no way to reverse it only time will help) YOU BETTER HOPE YOU LIKE IT!

I too had a terrible experience with evolence, are you getting cortison to try to shrink thelumps?

Hi- Hopefully you have had these issues resolved by now, if not perhaps my comments can help. I too had evolence since it was on "Special" and completely safe. Nasobobial more on the right than left and a tiny bit (for which I am now thankful, that it was tiny)on my right cheek. For one year I have been plagued with acne like pus filled things in my face, that finally resolved, but not on their own. I felt I withdrew from most social activites since I was so conscious about the lesions. First I thought it was acne, so went on accutane. It helped but since it was low dose and for 3 months only, it came back full force after it seemed to have been resolved. Accutane might help you.But, if I were you, I would stay on 40-60mg per day and supplement with Vitamin D, for a month. That would most likely take care of it for you. I was on 40 mg per week! Just afraid of the side effects. It was then concluded that it was granuloma, foreign body granuloma, which is still treated with accutane, successfully often. However, I was given oral prednisone, since cortisone shots can severely atrophy the skin, especially long term. I opted not to take these for that reason. So initally a dose of 10mg of prednisone was admnistered. Did not help, 4 weeks of this. Then 30 mg for 3 weeks, better, but still no real effect. Then 60 mg for a 3weeks- much better, but it now changed, so it looked almost like dermatitis, really dry and crusty and flaky. Hard not to touch, still with hard lumps inside. We then tried 100 mg per day for a week this September, which resulted in every side effect known to prednisone, swollen knees, weight gain bigger face etc. It took two weeks for the lumps to disappear. Since then it has been steadily healing. I was given a cream called "Biafine" by my new derm (tho other one lives in Sweden, to help healing and was told I am healed a week ago. Minor scarring a photofacial will fix. I just had restylane since there was a slight volume loss in the right cheek, But most importantly, I am healed. All in all, one year of my life was wasted because of evolence. TRy accutane or really high dose prednisone for a short time. The say these granulomas eventually resolve by themselves, it could take two years, three- I couldn't deal with that. And stay away from cortisone shots if they haven't helped in 2 weeks, then stop, you don't want atrophy. Weight gain by prednisone can be controlled by eliminating sugar and flour from your diet. Bets of luck.

Thank you sooo much for sharing, I now feel that there is hope. I have had 3 sessions of cirtisoid injections and now im scared of facial atrophy. I have an excellent doctor, I will tell my doctor about your treatment and hopefully mine too will go away.