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Had a skin graft in 2022, still depressed.
Hi everyone, I didn’t come to real self for many years now and didn’t check my account because I wanted to be as far as I could to reality.
I am still a shut in since 2016, which means I don’t go outside since 8 years now due to my traumatic surgery, I dropped off of university 8 years ago, im not working, I’m alone all the time and very depressed. I have a psychiatrist and had therapy for two years which hasn’t really helped. I have medications and I take them everyday, it helps a bit, I’ve been crying less at least.
I am writing this so that future people don’t make the mistake I did and never go to Dr Zwillinger if you don’t want to be botched.
So I had a skin graft in 2022, made by Dr Le Louarn a Parisian surgeon, I had a good experience with him, he was reassuring and did everything he could to help me. He took skin for the back of my ears and put it on my philtrum. Now I have a philtrum of 1cm, which is better than 6mm. BUT I have a huge skin graft scar which cannot be hidden with makeup or anything else, so there’s another problem. I know the surgeon can’t do anything else to help me. The scar is very thick and raised like an hypertrophic scar, I had steroid injections twice and laser but it didn’t really changed, I also had a revision in 2024 where the doctor tried to flatten surgically the scar but unfortunately it didn’t worked out …
I am wearing silicone sheets & doing massage everyday to hope flatten the scar but I’m losing hope.
If anyone has tips on how to flatten a raised skin graft scar I would really be glad to hear it…
Anyway, please be nice to me, I’m still very fragile and can take the comments at heart. I am posting this only to say that yes I’m still alive but it’s hard everyday I want to give up.
I am still a shut in since 2016, which means I don’t go outside since 8 years now due to my traumatic surgery, I dropped off of university 8 years ago, im not working, I’m alone all the time and very depressed. I have a psychiatrist and had therapy for two years which hasn’t really helped. I have medications and I take them everyday, it helps a bit, I’ve been crying less at least.
I am writing this so that future people don’t make the mistake I did and never go to Dr Zwillinger if you don’t want to be botched.
So I had a skin graft in 2022, made by Dr Le Louarn a Parisian surgeon, I had a good experience with him, he was reassuring and did everything he could to help me. He took skin for the back of my ears and put it on my philtrum. Now I have a philtrum of 1cm, which is better than 6mm. BUT I have a huge skin graft scar which cannot be hidden with makeup or anything else, so there’s another problem. I know the surgeon can’t do anything else to help me. The scar is very thick and raised like an hypertrophic scar, I had steroid injections twice and laser but it didn’t really changed, I also had a revision in 2024 where the doctor tried to flatten surgically the scar but unfortunately it didn’t worked out …
I am wearing silicone sheets & doing massage everyday to hope flatten the scar but I’m losing hope.
If anyone has tips on how to flatten a raised skin graft scar I would really be glad to hear it…
Anyway, please be nice to me, I’m still very fragile and can take the comments at heart. I am posting this only to say that yes I’m still alive but it’s hard everyday I want to give up.
Need advices
so I'm looking for doing laser in 4 months as it is supposed to wait 6 months, hoping my scar will be better even if it's a mess.
but I was thinking about having another lip lift but only on the sides, (on the side of the nostrils) because as you may know my philtrul length is only 6 mm i'll never short this again, I wish I was only 1 cm :(.... anyway, do you think it would be great to remove skin from the side to not have this triangular mouth anymore? because if skin is removed from the side the lips will look more straight and less triangular no?
what do you think guys?
I don't want to do something before one year or so but I'm thinking about solution because if I stay like that I won't be able to go out for the rest of my life.
but I was thinking about having another lip lift but only on the sides, (on the side of the nostrils) because as you may know my philtrul length is only 6 mm i'll never short this again, I wish I was only 1 cm :(.... anyway, do you think it would be great to remove skin from the side to not have this triangular mouth anymore? because if skin is removed from the side the lips will look more straight and less triangular no?
what do you think guys?
I don't want to do something before one year or so but I'm thinking about solution because if I stay like that I won't be able to go out for the rest of my life.
advice for laser treatment?
So.... if anyone read my all review you can see how much depressed I am. I know now I'll never be able to have a normal lips shape, a normal philtrum length, but since my second revision something is driving me crazy, my scar. It was so smooth and invisible with makeup before the revision and now it's very thick, red, and I have many holes all around my nose that come down to my philtrum. they are very deep such as the stitches scars. So basically my nostrils disappeared totally I only have a deep scar and nothing is "closing" my nose. the scar + the lips + the philtrum length is driving me crazy... I m so upset and now the only thing I can do Is blaming myself for having this revision with this bucher because even if my lips were horrible before the scar was fine...
so what can I do about my scar?
what laser? and how many months do I have to wait?
because now even with all the makeup of the world nothing can covered ! I've never seen such a bad lip lift result anywhere in REALSELF or GOOGLE.
I'm very sad, no one is supporting me in real life, i'm all by myself, And even if I stopped school, all of my future projet are a fantasy. I feel like a monster... anyway I'll stop blaming myself, If I was clever I would have visit many doctors before going to this one who destroyed my life... I swear even if my lips looks horrible, swollen, stick to my nose, the scar made everything worst.
So should I wait 6 months to have laser? what type of laser really work?
(If I didn't do this revision I wouldn't even thinking about waisting money laser again ... :()
Plus I have a huge scar stitching just above my philtrum which make my philtrum even shorter...
please If you have any advice for laser I'm listening....
And do you think it could relax my lips a bit more?
Now I'm scarred of massing the scar because it's terrifying , anyone could see it .. it's so big and disgusting ... all of you girls had chance to have good surgeon, I swear If only I did a review before choosing my PS maybe some girl would have helped me.. plus, I found all pictures of myself, I cried a lost because I already had a tiny philtrum and beautiful lips and they were perfect with filler.. now everything is over...
I truly don't have any hope for my future, I 'm so sad because I had my previous nose job out of the country for a very cheap price and it was perfect, the staff was nice and the surgeon made a perfect nose (now I can see it) but now my nose is destroyed by this scar because all of the nostrils looks ripped off and it looks widder ! And I told myself I should go to Paris, were the price are higher because the surgeon will be more careful, I WAS WRONG !!!! I first planned going to poland and when I sent them an email after my lip lift happened they told me I shouldn't do it cause my lips were perfect, that's what a real surgeon should have tell me !!
I'm so destroyed , I swear, I don't eat anymore, I don't go out, I lost all of my friends, I lost my future, sorry to bother you all but I need to write it.. my life is over, I 'm disfigured... even more with this terrible scar... my philtrum looks always swollen like a monkey face, when it used to be flat ! I think it's because he took too much skin because girls here who removed 4 or 5 never get this monkey face....all results are so good that I can't handle going on real self as much as I did.
thank you for reading me,
ps : I live in france, so if you know a name there for a laser specialist, or only if you had laser did it make the scar less obvious? thanks
so what can I do about my scar?
what laser? and how many months do I have to wait?
because now even with all the makeup of the world nothing can covered ! I've never seen such a bad lip lift result anywhere in REALSELF or GOOGLE.
I'm very sad, no one is supporting me in real life, i'm all by myself, And even if I stopped school, all of my future projet are a fantasy. I feel like a monster... anyway I'll stop blaming myself, If I was clever I would have visit many doctors before going to this one who destroyed my life... I swear even if my lips looks horrible, swollen, stick to my nose, the scar made everything worst.
So should I wait 6 months to have laser? what type of laser really work?
(If I didn't do this revision I wouldn't even thinking about waisting money laser again ... :()
Plus I have a huge scar stitching just above my philtrum which make my philtrum even shorter...
please If you have any advice for laser I'm listening....
And do you think it could relax my lips a bit more?
Now I'm scarred of massing the scar because it's terrifying , anyone could see it .. it's so big and disgusting ... all of you girls had chance to have good surgeon, I swear If only I did a review before choosing my PS maybe some girl would have helped me.. plus, I found all pictures of myself, I cried a lost because I already had a tiny philtrum and beautiful lips and they were perfect with filler.. now everything is over...
I truly don't have any hope for my future, I 'm so sad because I had my previous nose job out of the country for a very cheap price and it was perfect, the staff was nice and the surgeon made a perfect nose (now I can see it) but now my nose is destroyed by this scar because all of the nostrils looks ripped off and it looks widder ! And I told myself I should go to Paris, were the price are higher because the surgeon will be more careful, I WAS WRONG !!!! I first planned going to poland and when I sent them an email after my lip lift happened they told me I shouldn't do it cause my lips were perfect, that's what a real surgeon should have tell me !!
I'm so destroyed , I swear, I don't eat anymore, I don't go out, I lost all of my friends, I lost my future, sorry to bother you all but I need to write it.. my life is over, I 'm disfigured... even more with this terrible scar... my philtrum looks always swollen like a monkey face, when it used to be flat ! I think it's because he took too much skin because girls here who removed 4 or 5 never get this monkey face....all results are so good that I can't handle going on real self as much as I did.
thank you for reading me,
ps : I live in france, so if you know a name there for a laser specialist, or only if you had laser did it make the scar less obvious? thanks