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My BA journey...
In May 2014, i decided to go for it and get my first breast augmentation surgery. I chose Dr. Ashkan Ghavami as my surgeon after watching his TV interview on “the Dr’s” and knew i wanted to get the Flash Recovery painless Breast augmentation that he offered. I’ve always been a total baby about pain and never would’ve gone through with the procedure if it weren’t for his pain free method! I was so excited, but also VERY nervous. I have to say that I agree with the other reviews that mentioned how terrible Dr. Ghavami’s bedside manner was. I waited in the room for him for what felt like FOREVER, and was very surprised by how THIN those office walls are! I could hear him go to the patient ok another room on my left and heard every word they both said, then he proceeded to meet the patient on my other side-in Which i could hear everything they said there as well.
When he FINALY did come in to meet me he was not only 45 min late but he was rushing through the motions, preoccupied, and it was pretty clear that he really didn’t care about me as a patient (nor did he pretend to!). He was arrogant, unfriendly, rushed and didn’t seem to want to be there. He had a way of somehow getting in and out of there without me being able to really ask ANY of the questions i had previously intended on asking! At this point, i had already paid the deposit for the surgery so i just overlooked his bedside manner and figured this was what all surgeons were like.
I will say that as far as the actual procedure goes- it was exactly as he said and it would be. I was in there for about 20 minutes and boom done! After waking up in recovery my mom and i headed home and on the way home was able to even stop and eat at CPK for lunch! I was amazed at how little pain i felt and that i was able to raise my arms above my head on the same day as my surgery without ANY pain! I took one or two pain killers that following day for very mild soreness and didn’t need them again after that. I was even lying out getting a tan in my moms back yard the day following my surgery! That part was awesome!
But Everything that happened after that was the opposite of awesome.
Several weeks after my surgery, my (under the breast) incisions still would not heal. I followed his instructions and didn’t smoke or work out or anything i was not supposed to do in order for everything to heal properly... but the incisions just continued to open back up and you could literally see a large black hole. It was terrifying and disgusting because it continued to ooze through every bandage i put over it... and then through my clothing!
During this time, I called and emailed and was told to drive back to Beverly Hills for him to take a look every time i contacted them with a concern. (I lived in San Diego and had a suspended license at this time so driving back and forth was inconvenient to say the least!) To make things even more frustrating, dr ghavami was out of the country and I’d be seeing the “on call” doctor instead. I figured seeing this doctor was better then doing nothing! After sitting in 4.5 hours of traffic, i get there to find out Dr. Ghavami’s on call doctor was at a different practice in a completely different building on another street.
When we finally get over there, that doctor looked at my incisions, and just basically said i needed to clean the wounds and rebandage them every night (already was... duh) accused me of smoking cigarettes (which i had NOT smoked in months and was never a avid smoker in the first place. )
In the 5 minutes that i actually met with this on call doctor, he very matter of factly said if i stopped smoking and doing strenuous activity, it would heal. And that my wounds weren’t infected. It was nothing to be concerned about. I tried to get through to him that i had NOT been smoking.. not working out or doing strenuous activity.,..so there’s no reason why they should have opened up like this in the first place.but CLEARLY, he didn’t believe me. So he gave me some gauze and a new bandage and SENT ME ON MY WAY. I drove 4.5 hours one way just for this? I HAD PLENTY OF GAUZE AND BANDAGES AT HOME and already knew not to smoke or work out! I was ticked... to say the least.
A Couple more days pass and the open incisions still would not heal and the oozing was getting even worse. So Dr. Ghavami agreed to see me himself on a Sunday after he returned from his out of country trip.
So...Back to LA i went. This time it took me 4 hours to get there. (And 3.5 hours to get home). Dr. Ghavami agreed to sew the incision on my right breast back up (he said that the left incision was healing and apparently didnt need to be re stitched). Luckily, this did the trick for the incision problem on that side.
However, maybe a couple weeks later, my LEFT side opened back up again and i yet AGAIN had to make the drive back to Beverly Hills to now get the left side incision re stitched!
At this point, i honestly never wanted to go back there again after that. I was SO over the traffic and the hours of sitting in my car going back and forth to see a doctor who i really wasn’t all that fond of.
For about a month after all of this everything was GREAT. (This was August 2014)I couldn’t have been happier with my results and all FINALY seemed to be healing well.
But of course, This sure didn’t last because within another couple months i started to notice that something was not right with the appearance of my left breast. You could see and feel the implant poking out the side and the shape looked way different then the shape of my right breast. (Especially when flexing my chest muscles.)
I immediately sent photos to the surgery coordinator and she said to come back in ..
At this point, i was just exhausted and my father had just gotten diagnosed with terminal cancer ... i simply didn’t have the time to be driving back and forth to LA anymore.. i had to just forget about the breast situation and focus on my dad. By the time he passed away about a year after this, it was obvious that i was going to need the left breast redone.
I knew that Dr. ghavami’s price tag to fix the breast wouldn’t be any less then the first surgery and i absolutely could not afford this. ( since i had JUST spent approx 12k on that initial surgery!) In addition, I really did not have the patience to make the extremely long and congested drive back out to Los Angeles again over and over ..to see a doctor who I now didn’t even trust would do a good job with a revision... and who obviously didn’t care about me as a patient all that much.
At that point i decided i was done at Dr. Ghavami’s practice and had to just accept the way my breasts looked until my financial situation improved. To this day i won’t even let my fiancé touch me in that area because I’m so mortified of how creepy it is that you can fully feel the implant bag poking out the sides of my left breast.
It is almost 5 years later now, I’m in the middle of planning our wedding, and i would do ANYTHING to take back the time and never gotten that surgery in the first place. I strongly suggest if you are looking at going with Dr. Ghavami as your breast augmentation surgeon to maybe consider looking for other surgeons with less media presence and who you feel really cares about you and listens to you as a patient.
So many of my friends who have had BA surgeries all had wonderful experiences, wonderful results and LOVED their doctors. I WISH i could say the same. ????
When he FINALY did come in to meet me he was not only 45 min late but he was rushing through the motions, preoccupied, and it was pretty clear that he really didn’t care about me as a patient (nor did he pretend to!). He was arrogant, unfriendly, rushed and didn’t seem to want to be there. He had a way of somehow getting in and out of there without me being able to really ask ANY of the questions i had previously intended on asking! At this point, i had already paid the deposit for the surgery so i just overlooked his bedside manner and figured this was what all surgeons were like.
I will say that as far as the actual procedure goes- it was exactly as he said and it would be. I was in there for about 20 minutes and boom done! After waking up in recovery my mom and i headed home and on the way home was able to even stop and eat at CPK for lunch! I was amazed at how little pain i felt and that i was able to raise my arms above my head on the same day as my surgery without ANY pain! I took one or two pain killers that following day for very mild soreness and didn’t need them again after that. I was even lying out getting a tan in my moms back yard the day following my surgery! That part was awesome!
But Everything that happened after that was the opposite of awesome.
Several weeks after my surgery, my (under the breast) incisions still would not heal. I followed his instructions and didn’t smoke or work out or anything i was not supposed to do in order for everything to heal properly... but the incisions just continued to open back up and you could literally see a large black hole. It was terrifying and disgusting because it continued to ooze through every bandage i put over it... and then through my clothing!
During this time, I called and emailed and was told to drive back to Beverly Hills for him to take a look every time i contacted them with a concern. (I lived in San Diego and had a suspended license at this time so driving back and forth was inconvenient to say the least!) To make things even more frustrating, dr ghavami was out of the country and I’d be seeing the “on call” doctor instead. I figured seeing this doctor was better then doing nothing! After sitting in 4.5 hours of traffic, i get there to find out Dr. Ghavami’s on call doctor was at a different practice in a completely different building on another street.
When we finally get over there, that doctor looked at my incisions, and just basically said i needed to clean the wounds and rebandage them every night (already was... duh) accused me of smoking cigarettes (which i had NOT smoked in months and was never a avid smoker in the first place. )
In the 5 minutes that i actually met with this on call doctor, he very matter of factly said if i stopped smoking and doing strenuous activity, it would heal. And that my wounds weren’t infected. It was nothing to be concerned about. I tried to get through to him that i had NOT been smoking.. not working out or doing strenuous activity.,..so there’s no reason why they should have opened up like this in the first place.but CLEARLY, he didn’t believe me. So he gave me some gauze and a new bandage and SENT ME ON MY WAY. I drove 4.5 hours one way just for this? I HAD PLENTY OF GAUZE AND BANDAGES AT HOME and already knew not to smoke or work out! I was ticked... to say the least.
A Couple more days pass and the open incisions still would not heal and the oozing was getting even worse. So Dr. Ghavami agreed to see me himself on a Sunday after he returned from his out of country trip.
So...Back to LA i went. This time it took me 4 hours to get there. (And 3.5 hours to get home). Dr. Ghavami agreed to sew the incision on my right breast back up (he said that the left incision was healing and apparently didnt need to be re stitched). Luckily, this did the trick for the incision problem on that side.
However, maybe a couple weeks later, my LEFT side opened back up again and i yet AGAIN had to make the drive back to Beverly Hills to now get the left side incision re stitched!
At this point, i honestly never wanted to go back there again after that. I was SO over the traffic and the hours of sitting in my car going back and forth to see a doctor who i really wasn’t all that fond of.
For about a month after all of this everything was GREAT. (This was August 2014)I couldn’t have been happier with my results and all FINALY seemed to be healing well.
But of course, This sure didn’t last because within another couple months i started to notice that something was not right with the appearance of my left breast. You could see and feel the implant poking out the side and the shape looked way different then the shape of my right breast. (Especially when flexing my chest muscles.)
I immediately sent photos to the surgery coordinator and she said to come back in ..
At this point, i was just exhausted and my father had just gotten diagnosed with terminal cancer ... i simply didn’t have the time to be driving back and forth to LA anymore.. i had to just forget about the breast situation and focus on my dad. By the time he passed away about a year after this, it was obvious that i was going to need the left breast redone.
I knew that Dr. ghavami’s price tag to fix the breast wouldn’t be any less then the first surgery and i absolutely could not afford this. ( since i had JUST spent approx 12k on that initial surgery!) In addition, I really did not have the patience to make the extremely long and congested drive back out to Los Angeles again over and over ..to see a doctor who I now didn’t even trust would do a good job with a revision... and who obviously didn’t care about me as a patient all that much.
At that point i decided i was done at Dr. Ghavami’s practice and had to just accept the way my breasts looked until my financial situation improved. To this day i won’t even let my fiancé touch me in that area because I’m so mortified of how creepy it is that you can fully feel the implant bag poking out the sides of my left breast.
It is almost 5 years later now, I’m in the middle of planning our wedding, and i would do ANYTHING to take back the time and never gotten that surgery in the first place. I strongly suggest if you are looking at going with Dr. Ghavami as your breast augmentation surgeon to maybe consider looking for other surgeons with less media presence and who you feel really cares about you and listens to you as a patient.
So many of my friends who have had BA surgeries all had wonderful experiences, wonderful results and LOVED their doctors. I WISH i could say the same. ????
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