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Understanding Capsular Contracture (200cc Smooth Round Silicone Implants Under the Muscle)

Radiesse Migrating and Causing Lumps and Broken Capillaries - Collateral Damage - Do Not Use This Awful Filler - Boulevard, CA

Dear DA50 I am hoping that your initial response to the injectables of the main has gone down? It is shocking that your nurse and injector raved about this for under your eyes. Even the manufacturers warn against his as it mimics bone not plumping action like other hylauronic fillers. My lump did go down about 3-4months (as the carrier dissolved) later although you can still see the lump in the light under the skin of my eye and looks yellowish and the skin is reddish around in. I hide it with concealer. I did eventually start pressing it down quite hard for a couple of minutes everyday and this did help reduce the lump (it was almost as if I were reshaping the injectable material), altho' I waited until it was a bit softer (as the carrier gel started dissolving). It had broken my veins anyway on the eye area but be aware as this is a delicate area so be very careful as you could break the veins doing this. Someone recommended using their sonic toothbrush and I thinks this sounds a good idea. I have had pulse-dye laser on the eye last week to see if it will remove the veins and 'zap' the yellow lump. I will let you know if it helped. In the meantime don't agitate it (as I did and it swelled again) and leave it to 'settle' and plan your strategy for hiding your eye lumps. It WILL get better but I think it helps if you accept and that you will have to be very patient. Spread the word as this helps it from happening to others and go back and inform your injector and nurse (see my info about its uses and purpose) so they DON'T do this to others!!! All the best and hang in there.

I am so sorry to hear that - what a nightmare. It seems the company does not care and is totally disinterested in the issues with their product. Acknowledging it could lead to finding dissolvents or some sort of 'antidote' to peoples reactions. There are lots of other people on real self who have had problems with this product migrating including myself. Fortunately for me my little broken off piece (which I can move around in my undereye area) has not caused any further issues, but I sure do hope it will eventually dissolve. The very famous cosmetic doctor I go to annually (has practices in London and Paris and has A-list celeb clients) said literally it was terrible terrible stuff and he personally would never use it. My dermatologist is of the same view. Let's hope more doctors come to their senses regarding this product and that someone passes on the relevant info to the FDA as it seems to be very popular in the US. The same cannot be said, thankfully, of the UK. Remember the doctors who use it are incentivised to do so and not to report or care about bad outcomes. It is easy to ignore a bad reaction by a small percentage of the patients and declare it 'safe'. This is how it works with these so called studies.

Hi Anon Surgery is far too extreme. As Radiesse provides the 'scaffolding' for your tissues once the carrier gel dissolves and it is then enmeshed with your own tissue so you can't cut it out. They say 12-18 months for it to go - hang in there......

Hi Ivkaplan I am so pleased for you -altho' to wait 6 months is unbelievable!!! Did all the redness go as well? I see on your photo's that you had the a longer patch under your left eye and a small one under your right eye. Well mine is exactly the same except in reverse. To make matters worse mine are actually visible lumps as well. The one under my left eye can be moved around so it obviously migrated from the original injection area. The actual swelling took around 4 weeks to go down. If you pull the red skin (looks like broken capillaries) then the lump is a whitish yellow so the radiesse (which is an implant of calcium hydroxypalatite suspended in a gel carrier) is obviously too close to the skin. It is used in dental surgery as it feels like bone which is exactly how mine feels in my peri-orbital area. Urgh I hate it hate it hate it!!! Used a top Beverley Hills plastic surgeon who injected mine with cannuala's. So many people on real self have had similar problems both with redness (inflammatory response) and lumps.

I hope you've read how many people here have had bad side effects including those injected in the cheeks like skin necrosis and under eye reactions and bags. See also problems with marionette area. Personally my Radiesse broke off and I have a moveable lump under my eye which is red and itchy and visible as a yellowish lump when you pull the skin over it. This is not uncommon on Realself. If one were to extrapolate all the negatives into statistics with such a high number of people with bad side effects and such a poor response from the manufacturers and distributers of Radiesse, I would far rather recommend something like Juvederm Voluma if I were a practitioner. At least it can be dissolved, they are honest about the potential side effects, responsive and it does no feel like a bone. There is also other products like Sculptra. For the nominal so called 'advantages' of Radiesse, which can be gained from other products with higher patient satisfaction rates which can be dissolved, I think any practitioner is personally interested in the financial gain, rather than doing the best and safest thing for their patients. Personally, I will never have it again nor will my dermatologist. It is no fun having so called 'umph' when all it is is a hard gel carrier that feels like a bone stuck under your skin. Radiesse is formed by particles of calcium hydroxyapatite (CaHa) suspended in a gel that takes around 12 weeks to dissolve. It is considered an implant and also used in dental surgery. At lot of people seem to get an inflammatory response to the gel carrier, which takes so long to dissolve - not great when you have lumps and bumps from it. I am 9 weeks since and I have still got this hard visible lumps under my skin in the exact shape it was injected as ( a kind of banana shape). The important thing is it MUST be injected in a place where there is a fat layer over it to hide the awful hard carrier gel. As you say, it is only suitable for people with thick and heavy skin although how one measures that makes no sense. Radiesse claims it does not migrate, yet it does as so many have found out, including myself. It seems to cause a inflammatory response when near the skin. It causes collateral damage in the form of broken capillaries and my swelling took around a month to go down and that was from less than one syringe. Yes, I know mine was not done in a suitable place but yet many others who've had it done in a suitable place have had terrible reactions to it. Why take the risk?