Silicone removal

I have had silicone injections for over 6 years. Biggest mistake of my life. Never had much problems with them till about two years ago. Restless nights not being able to walk or sit for too long. So I decided to go have it removed in New York with Dr.shahine . He has no idea what he’s doing. He performed my surgery at 4 in the morning ! That should have been a red flag .He charged me over $8,000 He tried to lipo it out meanwhile he doesn’t put you to sleep because he can’t . The pain was unbearable I remember just crying and praying to get me out safe .He is a OBGYN NOT a board Certified plastic surgeon. From there things got worse. Lipoing it out doesn’t help makes it worse!The silicone spread to my thighs and the pain became unbearable. Every single day. I reached out to a few doctors in Cali Colombia. But Rios won me away. His staff are so sweet and kind. Jessica always made me feel welcomed and safe . I am scheduled for surgery Friday. Prayers everything goes good! I jus can’t wait to feel like myself again. Ladies do not get ass shots please it will ruin the quality of your life believe me.

So I’m in Cali still recovering 15 days post op. In 5 more days I’ll be heading home. I’m so excited I can’t wait. It’s recommended to stay 20 days after surgery so I’m doing just that. After I got out of surgery I was in pain I’m not gonna sugar coat it. But never once was it unbearable. I also handle pain pretty well. But the staff at dr Carlos Rios clinic is amazing. My favorite is Laura, I truly believe she’s an angel. She always makes me feel so comfortable and eases my mind about any concerns I have. The third day I went in to have my massages and saw my scar I cried. She assured me it will not stay this way. And she is right. 15 days later it’s looking way better. I have faith my body will do its healing. As far as the doctor, amazing isn’t even the word! My butt is not totally flat at all. I guess because I had so much extra skin when he lifted it also shaped my butt a bit. Way better than what I had prepared myself to look like. He removed 10 pounds !!!! It’s insane yes I had a lot . I feel totally more alert more like myself no more leg pains or numbness. God is great I never stopped praying and thanking him. Ladies get this out of your body before it gets worse !

So I decided to update my review. Because of everything I went through it was hard posting during it. After my surgery I was feeling great, about 20 days into recovery my stitches opened up. I was told it’s normal and not to worry sometimes the silicone is still coming out the skin through the stitches and it causes them to undo. Few days after I was cleaned did some treatment and was stitched up again. This was extremely painful clearly when you have healing raw tissues. It was like starting over the healing process. About a week later once again they opened, at this point I’m freaking out because I’m aware of the possibility of infections etc.. mind you my stitches are along my butt crack so using the bathroom is super difficult I ibasically stood for weeks. I was treated with some sort of carboxy to clean out the inside and suck out the liquid that was causing it to open. The nurses are amazing at his clinic and he came to check on me regularly however it hurt extremely bad I was in tears every time .the pain killers are sad. Basically a strong Tylenol . Few days later..again I was stitched up literally my whole wound all over to be safe and told I will be good this time. I don’t know how I got through all of this pain I truly believe god was by my side every step of the way.. I was in Colombia already for over a month at this point and jus wanted to go home. Three days after my stitches he told me I was be okay to go home. So I booked a first class flight jus so I can lay down most of the way because the pain was bad. Heading home I kept praying god just get me home to my son. I felt the fluids leaking out again. However once I got home my stitches were fine I had to change my dressing every day myself which was so scary. I hired a in-home nurse to come regularly; clean and change my bandage. On her second time she told me my stitches opened once again and I had a hole. My stomach was turning. How many times would I have to deal with this pain. She said it didn’t look infected but to go to the hospital because it can become being a open wound exposed... I went to the hospital later that day. And the nurses didn’t even want to touch me: they told me I would have to follow up with a plastic surgeon here . And if it got worse to come back. I knew it would as it always got worse. I could barely walk the pain was terrible. The next day basically ALL my stitches had come undone my wound was wide open. I went back to the ER when one nurse saw me she looked shocked and I knew it was bad once they rushed me in and admitted me. I had a team of specialist come see me. I was told so many different things it was so confusing. They wanted to do a wet to dry dressing in order to close my wound. Which means they stuff in the wound with wet gauze and then a layer of dry gauze and seal it. This would have to be done twice a day for three months and was extremely painful! I broke down. What sort of life would I have, how would I take care of my son, I couldn’t even sit down I was laying on my back for weeks. I just wanted this to be over. God sent me an angel then. There was a wound specialist I met her name was Rachelle. She fought for me everyday to be placed on a machine to close my wound. The team of doctors didn’t want to being this was out of the country and insurance reasons. She told me the wound vac would help me way more and was less difficult in wound closing. They agreed and placed me on it. It would have to be changed every other day. The first time it was changed was the worse pain I had ever experienced. It was piece of foam inside your wound which is connected to a cord that uses suction to close the wound: so as it’s healing new tissue is forming inside the little holes of the foam. The changing requires it being tore off that’s the most painful part. Picture somebody ripping off your skin inside a painful wound. I would have anxiety every time I knew I was having a wound change. But I knew it was helping me heal so I had to deal with it. The doctor came and explained my wound opened THREEE times is because he cut off too much skin during surgery. So when he sowed me back up my skin was being stretched and was under too much tension. It wasn’t ever going to close with stitches. I was so upset because I feel as if he should have tried something other than just stitching me back up every time clearly when it wasn’t working. They have wound vacs in Colombia I only knew this now. I stood in the hospital for 12 days. And was sent home with a portable wound vac that had to be changed every other day by a inhome nurse till it closed . Over a month later it closed finally. I’m still not myself some times I get shooting pain and sleeping is uncomfortable sometimes . But I’m thanking god I am alive and ok now. I’m glad I got this poison out of my body girls please read this and take from it. Learn from my pain so you don’t have to. Never ever put anything in your body !