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Filler pushing on tear ducts. One eye big - constantly tearing

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About five plus years ago the Dr. Decided to put a...

Andipanda
About five plus years ago the Dr. Decided to put a material called evolence under my eyes. Without my knowledge that it wasn't supposed to be put there, he did. He told me the only way to fix it was to do a blepheroplasty. It messed up my looks and my eyes, finally I let him try to fix it and it is like I'm living a nightmare. One eye is big, and pulling down. My eyes constantly tear to the point that it hurts. I have consulted every top occuloplastic surgeon in my area spending hundreds. They all said different things to try to fix it. However I don't feel comfortable just trying to fix it and making it even worse. I am going to top occuloplastics out of town for consults. I needed my medical records and they kept telling me to come back. I leave in the morning and they refused to give me my medical records, which is against the law. On top of it I was outside the office in the building calling a family lawyer to see if they can help me get my records, when they tried called the property manager to escort me out of the building. While I was in the elevator with her, she kept apologizing. When I told her what happened, she shook her head, and said, I know and I'm really sorry, I gathered they have done this to others. I know for a fact that he maimed three people, I found out after. Not only has he destroyed my life, he has emotionally seriously scarred me. Please be very very careful. I want to warn others so no one has to go through what I am. Oh and on top of it all, the office manager kept saying, " you've had other work done", the only other thing I tried, which I dissolved was an occuloplastic tried to put voluma in my cheek to take away from my eye being pulled down so much. This is costing me my life savings and I have never met a more inhumane Dr.

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July 24, 2014
I am so very sorry you are going through this nightmare. I know, first hand, what you are going through. I had a very aggressive bleph done in January and my life destroyed. The doctor has acknowledged his mistake but has yet to refund me the money. I will need reconstructive surgery and it will cost me twice as much. I have never regretted anything as this :((
July 27, 2014
I am so sorry you are going through this ordeal. I understand the devastation you feel - a doctor performed an aggressive upper blepharoplasty on only one of my eyes when I was very young and my eyes look completely different and the eyebrow is so much lower on that eye. I am trying to save money to get it corrected, but it's so expensive. And finding a dr who you can trust is difficult. I hope you can get an attorney and make the dr who did this to you pay for the correction.
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February 2, 2015
so dr. degeranimo told you that filler in the cheek will force the eye back? arggghhh! im thinking that would actually highlight the area instead of minimize or discourage it from pulling downwards. I would think all of the repair work he has done to correct the initial problem should be considered part of the surgery and you should be refunded at least for the cost of the procedures from the day he introduced evolence. Document everything and stay strong
February 2, 2015
He did refund me but I had to go to an occuloplastic surgeon to get the filler out. Dr. Di geronimo actually did eye surgery and said that would take the filler out. Well it never did and he changed and hollowed my eyes. I just went to a Dr. Martin to try n fix it. I'm in the middle of everything as I had the surgery December 19th. I still see some nodules that the Dr. Said are not nodules but scar tissue . I'm pretty sure they are nodules. He is injecting them with 5FU. I will update as we go along. I see a hole in my cheek also. Super concerned about that. Dr. Digeronimo should have paid for all this mess!
December 11, 2016
Why didn't you sue him? Display pictures of you to see the damage he did
December 8, 2020
i also had a terrible experience with this quack.
You should post this review on other websites.
UPDATED FROM Andipanda
2 years post

Saw an amazing Dr. Wish he was here though

Andipanda
I traveled to see a Dr. Steinsapir. He is the most thorough and amazing Dr. I've ever been to . Although I still don't know what the right thing to do is. This has really destroyed my life. The way this Dr. That did this to me and the way his office have treated me has made it beyond belief .

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UPDATED FROM Andipanda
2 years post

Still I'm limbo with this...

Andipanda
Not sure what I will do. Saw many good Dr's across the country. I don't know what I will do in the end. I have to go back to work now and will put this in hold for a couple if months and just live in glasses! Dr. Di geronimo seriously destroyed my life . The way he and his office are treating me after the fact is abusive and just horrible I really hope no one is touched by his hands!!

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January 30, 2015
i had a botched "misplaced" breast implant by this dr. years ago, he did an amateurish mistake i would avoid him
January 31, 2015
I know. It's too late now. I just went to an occuloplastic surgeon to fix this. I went all over the country looking for a dr. Now I'm really scared as I still see the nodules even though this Dr. Swears he took them out. I'm hoping this is not another Amatuer as this is my life and my face. This is not a game. Im a little worried as a woman said she was ruined by this Dr. after the fact. The Dr. Says she us crazy but they always do when they don't know they are doing and don't know how to truly fix things. Quite a few people are following me and have privately contacted me to see how this turns out to go to this Dr. so hopefully in the end I will have good news.
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February 1, 2015
whats really disturbing is when i went for the implants back in 1994, i shopped around and back then, 5500 was alot for implants, i was pretty naive and was wowed by his office, marble floors, chandeliers , statues everywere, it looked like he was very successful and well established. He seemed very confident and experienced, I was not happy with the size which he talked me into, and with the placement, which made it look like the top of the left breast had a ridge and was up so high, that in pictures, i posed where i lifted an arm to make it less noticeable...10 years later i was ready to go up a few cups and worried about the problem maybe was capicular encapulation, and have same problem, when i went to a modest clinic the Dr. there said no,it's the way the previous dr. ( digeranimo ) placed it too high,, he remarked it was not too hard to place directly as the nipple is supposed to be the center point, ALSO, that clinic charged half of what i paid for 10 years prior. Another lesson, dont be impressed by the office looking upscale and Dr. having experience, i'm sure my before and after wasn't part of his album. And, the aftercare there is horrible, they had me believing I looked great, and maybe I was not massaging properly, blahblah,, blaming me, of course and denying any obvious errors on the dr's part.
February 1, 2015
I hate when something is so noticeable and you KNOW the Dr. can see what your talking about but acts like it looks great. That is my biggest pet peeve and a huge red flag!!
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February 2, 2015
yes, like a scene from "the emperor's new clothes" !
February 2, 2015
Yep, well I'm going to update here as we go along. My eyes are so red and one has a big chunk of tissue taken out. I have to wear prescription sunglasses for a while. He is giving me these 5FU injections to try n shrink some of the nodules.
February 28, 2021
I can’t imagine Dr destroyed you life he has a heart of gold hands of a genius he would not know how