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"Full Tummy Tuck, Muscle repair, (tightening)...

MyShatteredDreams
$12,926
"Full Tummy Tuck, Muscle repair, (tightening) liposuction, Breast Augmentation
I want to share my near fatal surgical experience at the Wellness Kliniek in Genk, Belgium in May 2017. During my routine tummy tuck, liposuction and breast augmentation the surgeon cut the inferior epigastric artery as well as the internal mammarian artery that left me bleeding severely internally. During my recovery my blood pressure crashed dangerously low and I was sent by ambulance to the local hospital emergency room where I underwent very painful emergency surgery, due to suspicion of hypovolemic shock. A doctor performed a CT angiography to to stop the bleeding and quite literally save my life! I spent 5 days in hospital, and 3 days in intensive care and received a total of 6 units of blood. Had I not been very physically fit and healthy I would most certainly be dead! During my hospital stay my belly button became detached and I had to have a 2nd surgery under general anaesthesia to reattach it and I developed a severe ugly hematoma and a major abdominal infection. After these tragic events I have received absolutely zero support or assistance from the clinic, they simply ignored me and would not even return my phone calls or emails and to make matters worse the clinic are now insisting I pay the 6,000 Euro hospital emergency room bill in addition to my original 10,000 Euro surgery costs and the extra expenses incurred. In addition to my extreme emotional stress I have been left with a severely compromised surgery and the clinic couldn’t care less. I will now need expensive revision surgery to correct the damage sustained during surgery and in the hospital ER. I would never again trust my precious health to this surgeon or any other at the Wellness Kliniek in Genk, Belgium.

My breast augmentation gave me the fullness I wanted, however my breasts look and feel very unnatural and have visible ripples in the implants.

I feel horrible disfigured and nearly paid for these disappointing results with my life.

I want to warn other people to absolutely NOT use this clinic under ANY circumstances whatsoever! I do not want the awful nightmare that happened to me to happen to anyone else." I am happy to discuss the details of my ordeal or answer whatever questions you may have.

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September 6, 2017
Hi I also had surgery performed by dr visser. First of all 10 years ago I had breast implants. Asking for a dd cup ended up with an f cup and capsular contractor. So last year went back she repaired the capsular by cutting it which almost imediately started to return. Also I had a slight over hang from 2 previous c-sections so just wanted this gone she suggested a mini tummy tuck with a small amount of Lipo. Well a year on the swelling finally gone down I still have an over hang it's never gone flat. Very disappointing also still have one hard breast. When I contacted the clinic to ask about my concerns she replied telling me I need to loose some weight to achieve a good result. How absolutely ridiculous is that.
September 6, 2017
Thank you for sharing your experience here- I am sorry to hear that Dr. Visser and the clinic were so cold and uncaring in your case, and that your results are so disappointing. I am very grateful for this site that allows for reviews- real reviews- both positive and negative to be heard. Not all sites allow negative reviews, or have such strict guidelines that the transparent truth cannot be aired. I based my choice of surgeon and clinic based on reviews and their website. Perhaps you can get a second opinion from another surgeon and you can make a formal complaint to Orde der Geneesheren Limburg. I recently started investigating the supposed qualifications that are displayed so proudly on the clinic's website. I found that she is not a member of two Dutch plastic surgery associations and that she is not registered as a plastic surgeon in the NL. The associations were not pleased with the fraudulent misrepresentation of her credentials and said they would contact the clinic and ask for them to be removed. Indeed, yesterday the clinic removed those (NVPC and NVEPC) from the list on her credentials. They did not remove the statement that she is registered in the NL. This fraudulent misrepresentation is accented by the large ISO 9001 logo at the bottom of the page which added in my opinion, to the supposed legitimacy of the contents of the page.

Kind Regards and thanks for sharing your story!