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Botched butt implants and mycobacterium abscessus infection

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Botched Butt Implants

BOTCHED BUTT IMPLANTS!! After 8 months of 4 very serious infections due to my surgery w Dr. Javaheri from unsterile equipment I feel compelled to share my story...
Please for the sake of your health and cosmetic looks avoid avoid avoid this doctor !!!!
Here is how the story starts, I am scheduled for a butt implant surgery August 28, 2021... I had a previous surgery over three years ago with zero complications but wanted to increase the size of my butt implants and since Dr. Javaheri is "experienced" in body implants I figured he was the best option for me. At a first glance Dr. Javaheri seems very caring and very intelligent and seems to have good advice on what to do. However this is my eighth month or more after surgery and I'm still battling 4 infections and have serious indentations and have been on IV anabiotic's for six months that are very strong.
Approximately two days after surgery I developed a fever of 104.5 that is extremely high an indication that something is very wrong. I gave Dr. Javaheri a call, he informs me to go to the emergency room where they can give me immediate attention because he's dealing with other patients. I went ahead to the emergency room and they knew immediately something was completely wrong my body was going into epileptic shock from the fever that I was developing, and they were using all their resources to find out what was causing the fever.
Finally within a day or two of me being admitted to the hospital they find three different types of infections within the area that Dr. Javaheri had operated on.
On sept 7th Dr. Javaheri decided it was in the best interest to take the implants completely out. (After I spent $20,000 with dr.j) it was a devastating moment in this journey. However the story gets far worse than I could've ever imagined!
I get a call from one of the doctors that had taken a culture of the fluid that was gushing out of the incision Dr. Javaheri had made, and it was heartbreaking news...I had The presence of MYCROBACTIRUM ABCESSUS bactiria!
From there I had no idea how serious this infection was.. it is treated with one year of IV antibiotics through a pick line that goes straight to your heart that is extremely painful, I threw up every single day of treatment quit my job lost my car and moved in with a family member.
this bacteria it's only contracted through an invasive procedure like surgery with unsterile equipment, this type of bacteria is usually found in other countries but they're popping up more and more in the US. It's the lack of cleaning in between surgeries and taking unsterile measures before a procedure.
(I will also provide a screenshot picture of this information given on the Internet that will prove that you cannot catch this infection just by having an open wound and getting bacteria in it) It Hass to be done by an invasive procedure meaning a surgery has to introduce this bacteria through metal instruments that Dr. Javaheri was using.
I have literally lost everything and just a short amount of time, I've been hospitalized over eight times in patient treatment, I've lost my health, I've lost my income, I've lost my implants that I have paid for, I lost my car that I cannot pay for anymore... And I'm sure there's more things coming in the future.
Thus far Dr. Javaheri has not been supportive by any means and has not tried to apologize or taking accountability for anything he has done or caused me.
Please reference the pictures that I will be posting, they are all pictures of me through this journey and how I look at the end of it.
I am still battling this it is not over it's taking me a lot of courage to write this review, but I felt compelled that people should know the risks that one surgeon can cause you!
I have also made a complaint with the San Francisco health department that they will have to investigate thoroughly.. their number to call and reference this is 415-252-3800. You can call the medical health department to get any information on a doctor that you please, a lot of people don't know this resources available.
To conclude this review I strongly encourage you to not seek any type of procedure with this doctor that uses unsterile equipment and will literally put your life in danger take your money and leave you worse than how you came in.

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Shahin Javaheri, MD

Shahin Javaheri, MD

Board Certified Plastic Surgeon

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I hope you get better soon, this is shocking that you have been so poorly.
Thank you today I am still at the emergency inpatient and went through surgery to remove the infected tissue because the infection would not get better with IV antibiotics. I will need reconstructive surgery. This is very sad for me in this journey but hopefully the infection is completely out of me only time will tell! Thank you for your kind words
You poor baby, I wish you all the best with healing and a very safe recovery may god guide you to a healthy path.
Please God watch and protect her. Bless our heart.
I'm so sorry this happened to you. Thank you for sharing your story. Ones micro-bacterium come from unclean surgical tools/operating room? Feel better sis