Juvederm for Nasal Fold Lines and Corners of Mouth. No Results. Nothing. :( Austin, TX

You can see in my photos that I have the nasolabial folds and the corners of my mouth have downward creases. I asked for this to be resolved and was told I only needed one syringe of juvederm for this. I had budgeted myself for two and was happy to hear I only needed one. So I asked if we could help my eye area with a second syringe. She recommended that I have voluma placed on my front cheek area to give a fullness that will help my smile area as well as my eyes, so I trusted her judgment and went for it, although the voluma was several hundred more. I just wanted to look refreshed and have those deep lines filled and gone. Whatever it takes.

As soon as she finished and showed me the mirror, I saw no difference. She showed me the before and after photos she took and again I'm sitting there wondering what happened here because I still see the deep lines. They weren't even halfway filled in. They looked the same. I saw the slightest increase in the cheek area from the voluma. But the nasolabial folds were exactly the same.

I've seen enough lovely pics here on realself to know that these lines are indeed filled successfully with juvederm - so what happened here? I don't understand. It appears that she filled the area underneath it all and didn't address the lines. I didn't want to puff up the underneath. I wanted the lines to be resolved and gone. Why wouldn't she fill the lines?

So I mentioned that I still see the lines. She told me that I will see results in several days and the optimal results will happen at about two weeks. Does this sound right? I've been reading here that what you see right away is what you get, plus some swelling that will eventually go down. But look at my before and after pics. Can I honestly expect the lines to magically fill in over the next two weeks? I sure hope this huge disappointment soon becomes a happy successful result, because I'm feeling very let down right now. I would love to be wrong and update this review and praise this RN who did this. But everything I'm reading online is telling me this is the result and it won't get better. I will give a full review in two weeks. But right now I am sad about this.

Has anyone had no results and then as the days went by they suddenly saw improvement? I'm hoping for some encouragement because I'm regretting this a day later.

Updating with photos. Day four and no improvement. I'm being advised by several doctors on this website that the juvederm was not injected correctly and more than one syringe is definitely needed. It is the consensus that results should be instant and do not magically appear in two weeks, which is what I figured. I am researching ways to resolve this mistake and finally to find a doctor to do this right. I've rated my juvederm experience as "not worth it" with the thumbs down, but this is not a critique of the product itself. I still have confidence that if injected correctly this product can make a great difference. I hope to post a positive result here some day soon.

Wow, this looks pretty much the same as the "before" pic. Over the weekend there was just the tiniest amount of swelling (which is to be expected after injections) and that is gone now, so today I see in the mirror the exact same lines I saw before I paid $1320 to have them filled or at the very least reduced significantly. It's as if I never had the injections at all. If only that were true. I made an expensive mistake going there.

Today in the grocery store I chatted with a neighbor who asked if I ever decided to go ahead with the juvederm. When I pointed to my face and said this is it, she told me no, no, no that is not how it works and there should be immediate results. *Sigh* that is what everyone is telling me.

I have scheduled an appointment with an experienced dermatologist at a highly rated medical facility and I am optimistic that I will have a good experience this time around. I will post an update then.