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Worst Decision of my Life.
Where to start!
A review I've spent a long time contemplating making but having used real self so much in my own research process, I hope to help some of you out there in expanding on my experience. It is a long journey.
I had vaser lipo to my abdomen with renuvion with Dr Hamlet in October 2020. I also wanted a breast augmentation and was told he worked with two doctors. I chose Dr Solomos who performed an uplift and under the muscle implants (around 200cc). This cost circa £22k.
I still do not know who is to blame for what happened after.
From the get go, I had a big bulge in-between my breasts (pictured). I was told this would settle. It did go down, but I maintained a bulge of skin between my breasts.
At my follow up, I showed Dr Hamlet this bulge. He advised me that this could be removed with more vaser. He mentioned that Dr Solomos was too busy to see me to advise on the day. He told me he would 'kindly' do this section of the revision free of charge. But I would of course have to pay the £5k additional hospital fees.
Feeling happier in my body but conscious of the bulge and insecure when topless, I agreed.
In October 2021, I have a revision with Dr Hamlet with more vaser to the bulge area. Dr Solomos briefly drops in pre-op and seems to agree this is the right approach.
The bulge goes from a bulge to a huge amount of loose, flabby skin. Dr Hamlet advises me that my muscles are likely tight etc. I spent £100s attending physios as per his recommendation, trying to get the 'muscle' causing the bulge to release.
Now faced with flabby underboob and rolls between and under my breasts, I go back to my checkup even more disheartened. On top of that, my breasts are noticeably sagging. My nipples point upwards and my breasts are on the whole wonky.
I want to add that my uplift incisions were NEVER in the crease/under my breasts. They were always halfway up my breasts and very visible.
Dr Hamlet and Dr Solomos meet with me and tell me that there is nothing else they can do but perform a reverse abdominoplasty (a reverse tummy tuck, cutting out all the skin and tissue under my breasts).
I'm distraught, but I also feel like I have no other option. I'm 24 and the boob job I thought would boost my esteem has left me cripplingly insecure about anything that exposes my cleavage.
Dr Hamlet says he will 'kindly' not charge his fees for this, but again, I must pay for the hospital fee. I leave in near tears and am phoned by Dr Solomos' secretary who tells me she 'had a stern word' with the doctors and Dr Hamlet will be covering my hospital stay as well.
So in September of 2022.... another revision.
Dr Solomos and Dr Hamlet continue to meet with me privately and suggest the other to have caused the issue (Dr Solomos says too much vaser was done, Dr Hamlet says the breasts are too heavy but he's had such a bad experience he will no longer be offering abdomen vaser + breast aug combined). Dr Hamlet covers this revision but it is performed by Dr Solomos.
Dr Hamlet promises to keep in touch and check up on my case. Unsurprisingly, I never hear from him again. Surgeons are far less friendly when you're not paying.
I see Dr Solomos briefly in the morning of my operation. He draws on some lines, and off I go.
I wake up and find that not only has the loose skin been cut away. A third of my own breast tissue has also been removed. My breasts are sagging, the uplift has been reversed, and I have a huge scar running from one rib all the way to the other. I'm also about 4 cup sizes smaller.
I am distraught when my bandages are taken off. I contact Dr Solomos' secretary who tells me 'well, we weren't focussing on the breasts really. Just the loose skin'.
3 years later and my breasts look far worse than when I started. On top of that, I have a huge scar across my cleavage, scars under my breasts, and scars from my nipples downwards. I also have no sensitivity in one nipple.
My experience has caused my a great deal of depression. Forking out for multiple hospital stays, all of Dr Hamlet's postoperative requirements and the physio has left me out of pocket of circa £30k.
This year, I bite the bullet and decide to go elsewhere.
Without going into too much detail, I have a surgeon who specialises in reconstruction take on my case.
Three other surgeons REFUSED to revise my breasts owing to the complex nature of the mess Dr Hamlet and Dr Solomos left behind.
In short, I am told after this operation that the surgeon would not classify this as a plastic surgery case, but a necessary reconstruction. He tells me that my pec muscles had completely come away from my sternum (which has likely contributed to the chronic shoulder pain I have been experiencing since 2020). I have an extreme case of symmastia and my under the muscle pockets were just one giant pocket (he said they could have easily fit 700cc implants in there), and my previous implants had also completely bottomed out.
He does also tell me that the previous surgeons could have revised my case far easier by removing the implants and restitching my capsules. But in removing my tissue via vaser and then cutting it out, they made this reconstruction nearly impossible.
That was an additional £15k.
So, one surgery, 3 revisions, £45k out of pocket and 3 years later I am riddled with scars. I will likely need another revision within the next few years as owing to the amount of tissue removed from my breasts, the tissue is longer strong enough to support implants adequately.
Additionally, so much of my own tissue was removed that removing the implants would leave me with next to nothing.
This experience has caused my immense grief. I've had to spend weeks off work, and have been left feeling like you really cannot trust surgeons as they will tell you exactly what you want to hear and either point fingers or disappear when things go amiss.
If I could wave a magic wound and go back to 2020, I would in a heartbeat.
So I hope someone can take something from this. I thought I had done my research when choosing surgeons. I trusted them. But £45k later I'm left feeling even more insecure than when I started, my breasts are covered in scars, and I'm left with a huge number of problems and chronic pain owing to how my chest muscles have had to be repaired.
A review I've spent a long time contemplating making but having used real self so much in my own research process, I hope to help some of you out there in expanding on my experience. It is a long journey.
I had vaser lipo to my abdomen with renuvion with Dr Hamlet in October 2020. I also wanted a breast augmentation and was told he worked with two doctors. I chose Dr Solomos who performed an uplift and under the muscle implants (around 200cc). This cost circa £22k.
I still do not know who is to blame for what happened after.
From the get go, I had a big bulge in-between my breasts (pictured). I was told this would settle. It did go down, but I maintained a bulge of skin between my breasts.
At my follow up, I showed Dr Hamlet this bulge. He advised me that this could be removed with more vaser. He mentioned that Dr Solomos was too busy to see me to advise on the day. He told me he would 'kindly' do this section of the revision free of charge. But I would of course have to pay the £5k additional hospital fees.
Feeling happier in my body but conscious of the bulge and insecure when topless, I agreed.
In October 2021, I have a revision with Dr Hamlet with more vaser to the bulge area. Dr Solomos briefly drops in pre-op and seems to agree this is the right approach.
The bulge goes from a bulge to a huge amount of loose, flabby skin. Dr Hamlet advises me that my muscles are likely tight etc. I spent £100s attending physios as per his recommendation, trying to get the 'muscle' causing the bulge to release.
Now faced with flabby underboob and rolls between and under my breasts, I go back to my checkup even more disheartened. On top of that, my breasts are noticeably sagging. My nipples point upwards and my breasts are on the whole wonky.
I want to add that my uplift incisions were NEVER in the crease/under my breasts. They were always halfway up my breasts and very visible.
Dr Hamlet and Dr Solomos meet with me and tell me that there is nothing else they can do but perform a reverse abdominoplasty (a reverse tummy tuck, cutting out all the skin and tissue under my breasts).
I'm distraught, but I also feel like I have no other option. I'm 24 and the boob job I thought would boost my esteem has left me cripplingly insecure about anything that exposes my cleavage.
Dr Hamlet says he will 'kindly' not charge his fees for this, but again, I must pay for the hospital fee. I leave in near tears and am phoned by Dr Solomos' secretary who tells me she 'had a stern word' with the doctors and Dr Hamlet will be covering my hospital stay as well.
So in September of 2022.... another revision.
Dr Solomos and Dr Hamlet continue to meet with me privately and suggest the other to have caused the issue (Dr Solomos says too much vaser was done, Dr Hamlet says the breasts are too heavy but he's had such a bad experience he will no longer be offering abdomen vaser + breast aug combined). Dr Hamlet covers this revision but it is performed by Dr Solomos.
Dr Hamlet promises to keep in touch and check up on my case. Unsurprisingly, I never hear from him again. Surgeons are far less friendly when you're not paying.
I see Dr Solomos briefly in the morning of my operation. He draws on some lines, and off I go.
I wake up and find that not only has the loose skin been cut away. A third of my own breast tissue has also been removed. My breasts are sagging, the uplift has been reversed, and I have a huge scar running from one rib all the way to the other. I'm also about 4 cup sizes smaller.
I am distraught when my bandages are taken off. I contact Dr Solomos' secretary who tells me 'well, we weren't focussing on the breasts really. Just the loose skin'.
3 years later and my breasts look far worse than when I started. On top of that, I have a huge scar across my cleavage, scars under my breasts, and scars from my nipples downwards. I also have no sensitivity in one nipple.
My experience has caused my a great deal of depression. Forking out for multiple hospital stays, all of Dr Hamlet's postoperative requirements and the physio has left me out of pocket of circa £30k.
This year, I bite the bullet and decide to go elsewhere.
Without going into too much detail, I have a surgeon who specialises in reconstruction take on my case.
Three other surgeons REFUSED to revise my breasts owing to the complex nature of the mess Dr Hamlet and Dr Solomos left behind.
In short, I am told after this operation that the surgeon would not classify this as a plastic surgery case, but a necessary reconstruction. He tells me that my pec muscles had completely come away from my sternum (which has likely contributed to the chronic shoulder pain I have been experiencing since 2020). I have an extreme case of symmastia and my under the muscle pockets were just one giant pocket (he said they could have easily fit 700cc implants in there), and my previous implants had also completely bottomed out.
He does also tell me that the previous surgeons could have revised my case far easier by removing the implants and restitching my capsules. But in removing my tissue via vaser and then cutting it out, they made this reconstruction nearly impossible.
That was an additional £15k.
So, one surgery, 3 revisions, £45k out of pocket and 3 years later I am riddled with scars. I will likely need another revision within the next few years as owing to the amount of tissue removed from my breasts, the tissue is longer strong enough to support implants adequately.
Additionally, so much of my own tissue was removed that removing the implants would leave me with next to nothing.
This experience has caused my immense grief. I've had to spend weeks off work, and have been left feeling like you really cannot trust surgeons as they will tell you exactly what you want to hear and either point fingers or disappear when things go amiss.
If I could wave a magic wound and go back to 2020, I would in a heartbeat.
So I hope someone can take something from this. I thought I had done my research when choosing surgeons. I trusted them. But £45k later I'm left feeling even more insecure than when I started, my breasts are covered in scars, and I'm left with a huge number of problems and chronic pain owing to how my chest muscles have had to be repaired.
Provider Review
Dr Grant Hamlet