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Dr. Deschamps-Braly fought to make my nerve damage permanent.

I would get off the phone with his secretary, Robin, daily, begging and crying for them to release my medical records so that I could seek nerve repair, which is time sensitive, for my debilitating nerve damage. After only recently getting these documents, I was informed by the nerve repair clinic that "As it is over 3 years following your injury and you have undergone previous surgery, the chance for recovery is close to zero and unfortunately we are not able to assist you.". I cannot guess what else this doctor is other than pure evil in my opinion. He took my pain and made it a game for himself. It's not a game to me. I'm in so much pain and I cannot bear it. The facial deformity is already awful, but this nerve pain will end me. What a horrible thing to do to someone, he's a real monster.

Dr. D Has Left Me Deformed After I Nearly Died Under His Care and Fell into a Coma.

The following is my true experience and the opinions expressed here are my own. "You pay for my time, not my results."- Dr.D. After my surgery with Dr. D I nearly died before falling into a coma. At 24 years old,I feel my life is destroyed.
On his website Dr.D claims to have performed the 1st successful full-facial masculinization procedure on me, an FtM. I feel he's lying since he caused facial deformity and I feel he needlessly experimented on me. I now have a medical diagnosis of facial deformity, nasal deformity and obstructed airway, I am left in chronic pain due to nerve damage. My jaw and alveolar nerve have been damaged beyond repair, which has left me with severe, constant pain in the lower half of my face, including my lower lip, chin, jaw, lower gums, which causes difficulty eating, smiling, talking, etc. He has now abandoned me despite my numerous attempts to mediate a solution and get basic continuance of care. I need to be on nerve medication 24/7 for severe nerve damage.
In late 2017 during my consultation, we discussed the material he planned to use in order to augment my face/jawline. He said that I would need to trust him entirely and so I did. Typical jaw augmentation should have a 1-2% complication risk. He assured me that this would yield the best results. I had no idea of the nightmare that was to follow under his care.
After the surgery I suffered from adrenal gland failure and was asphyxiating, luckily a family member was staying with me in the hospital at the time and she alerted the staff, saving my life. My adrenal glands were tested on 12/15/17 and function perfectly. I remained in a coma for 4 days after the onset of adrenal gland failure. The abnormal EEG recording "gives evidence for a very severe, diffuse, continuous disturbance of cerebral activity. No clear focal or epileptiform features are seen." I fear that this suggests brain damage occured. Several surgeries were attempted to close the wound, but the wound in the mouth never healed and the implant later became so infected that it turned into an abscess that leaked out of the bottom of my chin and it needed to be removed. This left a large indent in my jaw and under my chin. He then put in hydroxyapatite directly after, even though in a letter from his assistant, Zhanna, she explains that, "Putting any extra material, including HA, will create more soft tissue tension and incision will fail to heal again." This also had to be removed.
After atleast 5 surgeries I lost confidence in his ability. He planned to use external wires to hold my jaw in place and then try to clean the infection again. I decided to seek care elsewhere. I felt that external wires would have left my face even more scarred and disfigured and I felt that any new material introduced to the area, including these wires, would have also become infected.
Nearly a year and half with the infection and on antibiotics daily, some of which required a PICCline, I developed chronic tachycardia. It was suggested by my cardiologist that the permanent tachycardia can be the result of a long and severe infection.
I called his assistant, Robin, explaining that I'm still in severe pain and suffered deformity and would like to see Dr. D, she responded by saying that Dr. D refused to see me and then hung up on me while I continued to cry from the pain. I was diagnosed with acquired facial deformity on 7/15/18 at UCSF.
In 2015 Dr. D also recommended a forehead implant which was confirmed by two other doctors to have needed removal since I became a migraine sufferer afterwards. There is a large, bald scar all across my hairline, even though Dr. D distinctly told me there would be no visible scar. I'm afraid that the muscle was injured and so now one of my eyes droops badly. I'm being seen at UCSF for the injury to the eye. I'll be needing additional surgery to remove the calcium lump that has formed in my forehead.
The rhinoplasty that Dr. D in 2015 and the revision that he did in 2017 warped my once-refined nose into a horrible, bulbous, crooked lump which looks nothing like a nose. I was diagnosed with acquired nasal deformity on 7/15/18 by UCSF and I also am diagnosed to have nasal collapse and airway obstruction. All of this caused by Dr D.
Dr. D refuses to help me get the referrals I need to nerve repair specialists so that my treatment may be covered. My surgeries with him and the resulting damages have cost upwards $100,000, which I offered to forgive if he donated $40,000, the initial sum I gave him for my 3rd surgery (a revision for two previous surgeries with him costing about $30,000 each), to a children's charity, but he refused. He remains the most noisome and grossly incompetent person I have ever met. I wish so much that I had never met him, I am so sad about what I feel is the loss of my future due to him.
Having surgery with Dr. Deschamps-Braly was the worst decision of my entire life, don't let it be yours. In my opinion, it may be the last thing you ever do.
He has also recently threatened me and my family with lawsuit for my requesting of my medical records and for my review of him. I fear he is doing this to threaten my anonymity and I fear this could potentially endanger my life since I am transgender.

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