I also developed an autoimmune disease within a year of Radiesse injection. At the onset, I had extremely dry eyes and mouth at night, possibly Sjogren's Syndrome. Testing revealed positive ANA but Sjogren's was ruled out. My eye dryness has improved but the dry mouth has not. My Radiesse had migrated to my jawline and below the lawline which makes me think there may be a correlation with the dry mouth. Still working with the docs on narrowing down the autoimmune diagnosis. By the way - I'm not sure this site is appropriate for us to be collaborating on as the tab at the top of the page shows "find a doctor" where you will probably find the doctor that did your injection (mine was there). These doctors probably pay for this site, so they will be 'mining' the comments here. Is it any wonder they told us all that they had never heard of any reverse reactions?
I went to a prominent Plastic Surgeon in Minneapolis for Radiesse injections into nose folds and marinette lines. I was quite bruised for a couple of weeks. For several months, my face looked really good - no sagging. Then suddenly at about the four month mark, the product started to move down into my low marinette area and ended up as hard lumps that kept getting bigger and migrating along my jawline. The doc said he had never seen anything like it before and was baffled! Yah sure. In what I believe was an effort to CYA, he sent me to a dermatologist down the road who did a biopsy and, of course, these weren't tumors. The derm gave me a prescription for Prednisone - which I was reluctant to use (and didn't) because of the side effects of that drug. Thankfully, my insurance covered the derm visit/biopsy. Eventually - after two or three scary months, the lumps began to dissipate. I believe I can still feel small areas that could be the product. If there is a class action lawsuit, I would at least like to get my money back.
I had Radiesse six months ago on August 4th, 2010 - nasal folds and marinette lines. Had silver dollar size bruises on either side of my jaw/jowel at injection site. There were no other issues outside of two unnoticeable pea-sized nodules at those injection sites. Then two weeks ago I started to notice a couple of new lumps and thickening lines from my mouth to my chin. These have gotten progressively thicker and have started to migrate along my jaw line. I woke up today to find the mass on the right side has migrated even further on the jaw toward my ear and slightly under my jaw. The person who performed my injection is a board certified plastic surgeon who was rated one of the top docs in Minneapolis. I have an appointment with him in a few days. It scares me to read some of these other posts - saying that "nothing can be done". I sure hope that's not the case.
Recent comments