I got juvederm voluma 5 days ago .the next day I woke up with red swollen cheeks wz a burning feeling. I talked to my plastic surgeon he prescribed Medrol for 6 days and said it s allergy to lidocaine.I m on benadryl. Swelling and burn feeling disappeared but redness still there. Will that disappear? To what I m allergic juvederm itself or lidocaine? Not to forget to mention I m allergic to penicilin.
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Voluma has four main injection zones V1-V4. The areas are the zygomatic arch, malar prominence, mid cheek and the sub zygomatic arch pre auricular region. Depending on were your volume was placed and how much was placed. It sounds that you can have the Volume injected in your pre auricular/sub...
I see this all the time in my practice and it is because people use the filler to lift the cheekbones when they really need it to lift the fat pad in the middle face and to treat the tear trough. You need more filler to the trough and medial cheek to balance what over correction was done...
