This all started with filler many years ago. I got under eye filler and developed a nodule that was visible. I had to dissolve the filler. This left me with asymmetry and hollows under my eyes. I should’ve just had the lower lids lifted then and this wouldn’t have happened. Hindsight 20/20 tho right? Here we are later in life and doing the lower lid lift to correct the filler/dissolver mess. Since my eyes are hooded I opted to have the upper lids lifted too as I know I will want this done in the future. Updated on 9 Feb 2023: Swelling and bruising still looking crazy! I was hoping to be a little less swollen by now. But my eyes still feel very tight. Looking a little better day by day. I’m continuing to ice and drink a gallon of water a day. Updated on 10 Feb 2023: Woke up feeling emotional today. This process has not been a super speedy recovery for me. I’m feeling a bit depressed today but trying to stay optimistic about my healing. Updated on 11 Feb 2023: I think I’ve been a day ahead of myself tracking. As day 1 is actually day 0. So today is technically day 5. The redness has become much better. I did put some makeup on the bottom half of my face yesterday to go into public. I was too tired to wash it off last night so I’m about to get in the shower now to get it off. There is definitely still bruising under my eyes from the lower lift. Still a significant amount of swelling on upper and lower lids. I’m feeling optimistic. Updated on 11 Feb 2023: Very happy with my healing. Evening of day 5 Updated on 11 Feb 2023: Updated on 12 Feb 2023: Happy to see some fresh color coming into the skin. Swelling still pretty significant but I’m a person that swells easily. I’ve gained about 10lbs in water weight, which is common for me after surgery but may not be for everyone. Updated on 13 Feb 2023: I cannot wait to get my stitches removed. Still. Lot of swelling but I’m optimistic about my recovery. Updated on 13 Feb 2023: Tomorrow morning can’t come soon enough Updated on 15 Feb 2023: Updated on 16 Feb 2023: Today is the first day I had to go back to work and I’m happy to say I am very happy with my results so far and want to say thank you to Dr Blum at Sweetgrass Plastic Surgery and the entire staff. Dr Blum is a caring kind heart with great surgeon’s hands. His staff treated me with kindness and responds promptly to my emails and calls. I’m so happy with my choice in them. Updated on 8 Mar 2023: Still very happy. Still swelling in the outer corners and still tightness in my right eye in the lower corner. But looking good :) incisions are already skin colored so I’m also very happy about that.
I was fearful going into my first Botox treatment. Thanks to Lauren Lewis I was pleasantly surprised with a gentle experience. In Addition, I did not bruise at all and I am already seeing the difference in my features!!! Lauren said for me to take pictures after the procedure and again in two weeks. Two weeks should be when all the muscles should be relaxed. Thank you for such a wonderful experience!
Rebecca is excellent! I love getting my Botox done with her. She is very friendly, professional, and listens to what results you are trying to achieve. I’ve had botox and fillers done by her several times. I have always loved my results.
Rebecca is the only person I get Botox with! She’s pays attention to exactly where I need it and I’m always 100% happy! I’ve been other places where they just give you the Botox where “most”people get it, but she specifies it per patient!
The staff at Sweetgrass is amazing I absolutely had the best experience with everyone at the Daniel Island office. Dr Schimpf was so friendly and professional from begging to end and the entire staff with answering questions and making me feel comfortable with my procedure. I love my outcome and Dr Schimpf did a great job I would absolutely recommend him and Sweetgrass to friends and family.
Alway have a roll around my bra strap. Doing this in conjunction with a breast implant exchange and lift. Hoping to feel smaller around my upper body and chest lifted to where it should be. Nervous amd excited
I have saline implants over the muscle from 11 years ago. Going to replace to silicone under muscle with a lift and smart lipo for bra strap area. Nervous and excited. Mild case of capsular contracture on left breast. Currently 34DD hoping for a full D.Updated on 19 Mar 2021: So nervous and excited:) Updated on 19 Mar 2021: Back and stomach very swollen from the smart lipo. Loving the new shape of my breasts, I had an exchange from slime over the muscle to silicone unders with a lift! So far so good. Updated on 19 Mar 2021: Sweetgrass Plastic surgery.
My rating is not for the surgeon I selectively chose but the young staff and the interpersonal relationships amongst them that have me question if my information is confidential and protected or used for gossip. For whatever reason , I don’t think they realize or simply do not care this is borderline.. if not complete medical malpractice. Such behavior could ruin the reputation of a highly skilled and well trained surgeon. I urge you to consider a practice that is smaller with more seasoned staff focused on patient care and not interpersonal relationships or social statuses. This goes for not only plastic surgery at this practice but aesthetics as well. Sweetgrass is concerningly similar to Sonobello which while great for a business man, not so much for patients. Your body should not be touched by just anyone, or seen by just anyone. This goes for pictures, consults, communication between you and your doctor, as well as your unconscious / heavily sedated body laying out on an operating table. Your medical information, career choice, insecurities about your body, etc. should not be shared with people who lack the maturity to handle it properly. Whether you choose to use financing, insurance, or pay out of pocket should not be a conversation amongst staff under any circumstance nor should it be a factor in how you are treated. Socioeconomic status, gender, race , or age has no impact for your quality of care in a medical setting. What clothes I wear to the office should not impact how Im treated by staff. You will likely have to remove your clothing in the office anyway so your provider will not see your outfit nor will they care. Dress and appearance does not in any way pertain to the quality of care and respect a patient should be given. It is unacceptable to allow it to be whether it is with reception, a CST, or an RN. I urge you to choose not only your provider but their staff very carefully. If it is not an all encompassing package, go somewhere else. If a patient wants to dress nicely, that is not something medical support staff should be concerned with. If a patient wants to wear their pajamas to the office, that is their prerogative and no one else’s business. This behavior is inappropriate and graduates of prestigious medical schools know this. I believe the staff makes their own choices without the surgeons knowledge as it pertains to the concerns above. Often times staff in settings such as these have a tendency to get away with this because it makes people uncomfortable enough to just turn the other cheek instead of addressing it with their provider. I don’t think the surgeons realize what this is like for patients and how awkward it is to get weird looks when you walk in to see a doctor because of maturity levels and lack of principles. I’m not interested in the drama they have in the office. I’m there for medical reasons. I require post operative care and am reluctant to keep up with it because it is awkward. I conducted extensive research on several plastic surgeons in the area who have experience performing the surgery I wanted. I also had several consultations before I made my decision. The decision was based on skill and training which I found to be robust and admirable, not that I should have to explain my choice. I ignored word of mouth and some reviews online about the practice because ultimately I was aiming for a result that would best suite mybody and believed the doctor I chose was the best candidate to achieve that goal. He was focused on a natural result that enhanced my look and not fitting me to a status quo which was my main focus throughout my selection process. I am very pleased with my result. I am not happy with the practice or the young staff they have employed there. Ultimately if I knew what was going on within the practice I probably would have opted for someone else for this reason alone. Whether or not a surgery is elective, a patients body is sacred and that needs to be understood by the staff there and enforced by the surgeons at this practice. I urge the MUSC graduates who swore the Hippocratic Oath to ask themselves why they started practicing medicine and if they’re upholding their staff to the values they should have at their core. While MUSC is coveted amongst South Carolina natives, I remind you Tulane is ranked higher and has even more values they instill in its graduates. As a patient who opted into a major surgery, I expect more out the staff working with a Surgeon who was not only selected to be Chief Resident of general surgery at Hollings Cancer Center but a graduate of both MUSC and Tulane university. The staff may not have taken that oath, but that does not mean they shouldn’t be well vetted and carefully selected to ensure they care about the patients more than their own agendas. Personal opinions and bias have no place in the practice of medicine. The Hippocratic Oath referenced throughout my review can be found below: I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health, and All-heal, and all the gods and goddesses, that, according to my ability and judgment, I will keep this Oath and this stipulation—to reckon him who taught me this Art equally dear to me as my parents, to share my substance with him, and relieve his necessities if required; to look upon his offspring in the same footing as my own brothers, and to teach them this Art, if they shall wish to learn it, without fee or stipulation; and that by precept, lecture, and every other mode of instruction, I will impart a knowledge of the Art to my own sons, and those of my teachers, and to disciples bound by a stipulation and oath according to the law of medicine, but to none others. I will follow that system of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients, and abstain from whatever is deleterious and mischievous. I will give no deadly medicine to any one if asked, nor suggest any such counsel; and in like manner I will not give to a woman a pessary to produce abortion. With purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art. I will not cut persons laboring under the stone, but will leave this to be done by men who are practitioners of this work. Into whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption; and, further from the seduction of females or males, of freemen and slaves. Whatever, in connection with my professional practice or not, in connection with it, I see or hear, in the life of men, which ought not to be spoken of abroad, I will not divulge, as reckoning that all such should be kept secret. While I continue to keep this Oath unviolated, may it be granted to me to enjoy life and the practice of the art, respected by all men, in all times! But should I trespass and violate this Oath, may the reverse be my lot!
I'm not including the doctor's name in this review. I just hope they learn from hearing about my personal experience. I went to Sweetgrass Plastic Surgery this past summer to get smart liposuction on my bra fat area and flanks. I arranged to have a friend take me to my surgery and pick me up. Upon arrival I was told that the doctor was running about an hour behind. (I was a little surprised that no one called me to let me know.) The surgery ended up being two hours later than scheduled. Once the surgery began the doctor had me lay on my left side while he worked on the right side of my back. Then he had me lay on my right side while he worked on the left side of my back. (I did comment to him that he finished one side much faster than the other.) I thought it was strange that I didn't lay on my stomach for the surgery and that he didn't compare the two sides to look for discrepancies. The surgery felt rushed and I felt like all of the staff were just ready to go home. No one ever apologized about the long wait or even acknowledged it. Anyway, I went home hoping for the best. I did call the office the next day to tell them that there was place on my back that looked like a shadowy depression. I was told that it would take 6 months for swelling to go down. When I went in for my 6 month check up I showed the staff member the depression on my lower left side that was about the size of a fist. She didn't say much, but I did overhear her telling the doctor outside in the hallway that there was in fact a discrepancy. They then told me that someone would reach out to me that same week to schedule a free revision surgery. I did not hear back that week so I began to call. I left two messages and heard nothing back. It had now been two weeks. Then I received an email telling me that I had an appointment scheduled for that coming Monday. I scheduled transportation again and arrived at the office believing I was getting my revision. I was told that the email was sent to me because of a computer glitch and that I had no appointment. I asked if I could go ahead and schedule my revision since I couldn't get in touch with anyone on the phone. I was then told that it would be at least two months before I could get my revision. At this point I completely lost my temper. After waiting 6 months and two weeks, I was ready to get this place on my back fixed! After I left someone called me from Sweetgrass to tell me they could get me in for the revision the following week. During my revision the doctor had me lay on stomach for the surgery this time. (I assume that this time he wanted to make sure things were even.) It has now been a few months and my back looks much better. The depression is not as noticeable and I'm okay with that because I know plastic surgery results are never perfect. I debated writing this review, but after thinking about how saddened and emotionally exhausted the experience left me I decided to do so. This wasn't my first time getting a surgery, (I had breast augmentation about 8 years ago and an areola reduction 3 years ago... these were not done at Sweetgrass because I wan't living in Charleston at the time) but this was my first time that I was left feeling so inconsequential by a plastic surgeon's office. I hope no one else has to endure such substandard treatment in the future.