Kitters

Happy I Did It - but Don't Expect Miracles

Worth Every Penny

Love the results.....prefer liquid lift to surgery

Loved the Results - Just Too Damn Expensive to Keep It Up!!

Selphyl Under my Eyes! - Phoenix, AZ

5 Treatments of Matrix RF (Syneron EMatrix) - Scottsdale, AZ

Palovia...here We Go! - Prescott, AZ

Good Value in the Hands of an Experienced Injector! -Prescott, AZ

Oops I'm sorry I just read the captions on your photos...its been two weeks since your injections? Radiesse doesn't "move" or migrate the way that Juvederm does, which is why its often placed in the cheeks, so it doesn't make sense that it would have moved lower in your face. It does stimulate the body's own collagen production, but that generally takes longer than two weeks to notice. Possibly a histamine response? When I get injected with Radiesse I take an antihistamine for a few days as a precaution along with arnica montana for healing. That's the only reason I can think of for post treatment swelling that occurs so long after.

VanessaNYC, you look good - def younger in the "after" pic....however that being said, your injector put alot of the filler lower in the cheek vs higher and more lateral on the cheekbone. To balance it out you actually need a bit more added higher up and then moving out from the zygomatic bone towards the temple, so that the "fullness" is not concentrated all in the mid-low face. If its only been 3 days you are still swollen as well, so I'd wait a week or so before doing anything else so you can properly asses where more filler needs to be put. I actually just got Radiesse injected in the cheekbones myself yesterday - I am a med asst/clinical aesthetician at a med spa and have been doing fillers for years. Radiesse is a great product when injected properly!! Take Arnica Montana to help heal quicker an then have your dr take another look at it. Don't stress, its going to all work out beautifully and you do look younger already.

That is alot of filler for someone your age, but we all age differently so don't beat yourself up too much about the age factor. I work at a medspa - and have been getting injections of Juvederm and Radiesse for years. It looks like your injector put most of the filler in the zygomatic area (cheekbones) and you said a bit went into the nasolabial, but the pre-jowl sulcus/chin area was ignored. Some additional filler in that area will soften the appearance of jowling, along with some botox in your mentalis muscle to help soften that line across your chin. Honestly a face lift will not correct facial fat/volume loss, and most people who get mini lifts still need filler! A facial fat transfer would probably give the best effect, but its surgery, and still is not permanent but lasts longer than fillers. You have a very pretty face and I share your pain with sagging skin! Though I'm 45 it still is exasperating sometimes to be a slave to fillers...but I'm just not ready to look at facial surgery yet because as I said before, that won't solve the problem of fat loss in the face. I say get a little more filler to soften out the look of the jowling and you will be alot more comfortable with it.

I went through alot of what you are talking about! 2.5 yrs ago I had a lift and silicone implants. I was a natural 34DD but over the years my breasts had sagged and they looked awful unless I wore a push up bra. After the surgery (weeks after, not months) a couple of my incisions popped open on the incision line that comes down from the nipple and meets the underside of the breast. I had a small opening on one side, and a larger (nickel sized) opening on the other. I freaked out, worried about infection etc. Doc saw me and said it happens sometimes when you do a lift and an implant together...just too much pressure on the suture lines. Anyways, I kept neosporin on it and sure enough it granulated in and healed within a few months. It did leave a larger scar than what I had expected but it healed up fine. As to the size, I think assymetry is a common problem post surgery. They don't often get the implant sizes right (especially when they are also removing tissue for a lift) and the nipples are often "off" once the tissue heals and pulls into whatever direction it is going to pull to. I went back once to have my PS do a nipple revision for me to make them match better, and while its not "perfect" its pretty damn close. I wear the same size bra as before the surgery, I just have fuller lifted breasts rather than saggy ones.!! Your dr should be willing to do a nipple revision for free...its an easy outpatient procedure done with local anesth. and takes about an hour. As far as surgery revisions to change the assymetry in cup size (from one breast to another), that is another story entirely. They can't "fix" that without going back in to either take out more natural breast tissue on one side OR put a larger implant on the other side. Either way the surgery will probably be at YOUR cost. Some assymetry in size is considered "normal" (my left ended up bigger than my right) and of course if they replace a perfectly good implant with a different sized one, you would have to pay for it :-(

Suzanne...all I can say is YOU may think they move naturally, but that a man can tell the difference most likely! I totally thought mine looked and moved entirely natural, especially because I had natural DD breasts, so I have more natural tissue over my implant than most women do. However, when a good male friend of mine explained how easy is is to tell difference in movement when a woman with implants walks, rides in a car etc vs a woman without I began looking around and sure enough he was right! I'm sure I would now be easily able to tell yours were implants, especially since you were so small to begin with and have less natural tissue covering the implant. Don't get me wrong - I'm not sorry I did it, I hated the look of my natural DD breasts because they were sagging! Just saying there is a bit of a trade off :-)