“Sounded Like Great Way to Get Rid of Turkey Neck and Lines Around my Mouth but Don't Do It! - Troy, MI”
I had seen the infomercial and thought that sounded like a great way to get rid of my turkey neck and deepening lines around my mouth. They tell you that it only takes a week to see the results and that's a bunch of crap! My Granddaughter won't even look at me and my daughter cried.
I have scabs and a spot on the side of my face near the incision line by my ear that looks like it was burned and even had blisters that popped and I remember hearing the doctor say "oops" when he was doing that side but the tech said that it was because I smoke that that happened! I believe he burned me and didn't say anything about it!
The shots that they give you are extremely painful and I was shaking like crazy when they were done with them only to have them start again. I was not in the least "sleepy" and was awake to smell my flesh burning and to hear the cutting of the tendons. Even though I had to endure their shots to numb me I could still feel the pain of the procedure. Especially when he was stuffing wads of gauze in the skin under my chin!
My sister in law was waiting in for me and was told by the receptionist that he was doing 21 lifts that day!
I can not open my mouth wide enough to eat a burger and my ears, jaw and under my chin are all numb. The tech asked if I had sharp pains in them as this is the sign of the nerves healing and I have not had any of that and don't expect to.
I have had other surgeries and have permanent numbness from then and think this will be the same. My neck is so painful that I can hardly stand to touch it. I had to have rotator cuff repair done on my shoulder and that was less painful!!! The lasering wasn't bad except that he went too deep in several areas around my eyes and now I have scars. That was numbed with several shots too but still felt like being snapped by rubber bands over and over again.
Updated on Aug 3, 2010:
Do not do this!! Big mistake, I still have the puckers after 9 months and I am going to have to see a REAL doctor to get it fixed.
Updated on Oct 28, 2010:
I so far have been unable to get an attorney to take this case so I am going to take it to small claims court to at least get my money back. I have seen a real surgeon and it will cost around 5800 to fix this. So I will be living with it for a long time!!! Please be warned!!!!!!!!!
Updated on Oct 28, 2010:
DON'T DO IT!!! PLEASE SEE THESE PICTURES FIRST.
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Thank you for sharing your story and pictures. However, looking at your preop photo, I really don't see any aesthetic indication for a facelift procedure; you had a well defined jawline, no jowls, and no cervical obliquity. The incision placement is typical for what I have seen for LSL; there are better ways to plan and camouflage the incision because the likeliehood your incision will migrate forward is relatively high. You obviously had upper eyelid surgery and periocular/ perioral resurfacing. My guess is your procedure was 3 hours in duration and that there was no monitoring of your vital signs. As you can tell, it takes longer than a week to look great after the extent of procedures you had performed. This is not necessarily a problem, as long as you are fully informed that this will be the case. It is better for a surgeon to undersell and over deliver than to have promises that can't be lived up to.
and she DID GIVE IT MONTHS - note her pictures from 3 months and 6 months afterwards.
In response to the woman who had a bad Lifestyle Lift experience (burn on one side, etc.)where is the BEFORE picture or is the first photo the before? The interesting thing is that she has divulged some of the procedure, which is totally kept from you on their website. She mentioned laser work, and from the photos we see a long "cut" with stitches. I thought the Lifestyl Lift is NON-INVASIVE????
I am SO glad I saw the horror stories on this proceedure! I am NOT moving ahead with having it done to my face. I've completely changed my mind and canceled having it done. I would rather age gracefully, and accept my wrinkles, than risk ending up looking like a freak. I too, fell for the infomercials...promising the ease and success of this. The 'success stories' that Liftstyle Lift has on their web-site are the people that they (no doubt) made sure turned out good. Natually they will put those for us to see. We sure didn't see any horror stories listed did we? I've been a bit hesitant in doing this because I wondered if it wasn't a little too good to be true. NOW...I see it very well could be. I can NOT take a risk like that. It needs to be more sure. Plus, after re-thinking this, I believe they want far too much money. I'd rather go to a real plastic surgeon who is a specialist in this. My friends were also going to do the Lifestyle Lift but have also changed their minds too. We've decided to go the other route...a plastic surgeon. All proceedures (for Lifestyle lift for all of us) have been canceled. I appreciate those (who had the bad experiences with Lifestyle Lift) sharing their stories with all of us.