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Hyaluronidase Disaster
I’m going to write this review because I’m really really sad about the experience I had in the past 8 months with fillers gone wrong and hyaluronidase and hopefully one day find a solution for this problem that is killing me inside.
I have had fillers for 10 years without problems, in my lips and nasolabial folds.
Last summer in June I went back to a dermatologist in Harley Street and had restylane in the lips and Juvederm in the nasolabial folds. Juvederm was only 0.6, so not much and very expensive, I paid £650 for both!
After a month I noticed that the swelling on the right side wasn’t gone and actually got a bit worse since the day of the injection, so I contacted the dermatologist and he gave me antibiotics that didn’t change anything so had it dissolved. He dissolved a lot even though I told him to inject a very small dose. My right cheek was very flat and the skin was really dull compared to the left cheek and even the nice natural plumpness I had under the eye and next to the nose was melted away!
I hoped for the best reading the answers from the doctors on this website that affirm that hyalase cannot dissolve your own fat, but it clearly did!! But anyway I waited 5 months without any improvement and I went back to the dermatologist who kindly injected 0.3 of Juvederm in the cheek. Even though it improved the cheek a bit it didn’t solve the problem cause he injected in a specific place while hyalase dissolves a bigger area. Immediately after the Juvederm injection I felt that something was wrong with my eye, so long story short I went to see a few doctors nobody knew what I had, some of them thought that it is nerve damage so the dermatologist invited me to dissolve it again. So the strange feeling to the eye improved but I now have an extremely dry eye, and an awful flat and dull as ever right cheek.
I am devastated with this result and I am asking around to see if it’s possible to sue for this disaster. I feel ugly and old, I lost interest in things and going out, so the impact that this had on my life is indescribable and extremely painful for my soul.
I don’t even know who to blame, the doctor? The Juvederm? The Hyaluronidase? Myself for letting a doctor inject me?
I am looking to see if there are any remedies to this problem but I’m not ready to take the risk to do any treatment and then dealing with other problems.
I’ve been told that profhilo could be an option to improve the skin but I am really scared to have a reaction of any kind and have to have it dissolved again. Laser, fillers or fat grafting are too risky for me and I wouldn’t consider them. I mean, even with fillers they say that reactions to them are rare, but from what happened to me and what I read online doesn’t seem so rare!
Anyone had a similar problem? And how did you solve it?
Very very sad here and feeling alone, as it’s a difficult argument to share with family or friends. Xx
I have had fillers for 10 years without problems, in my lips and nasolabial folds.
Last summer in June I went back to a dermatologist in Harley Street and had restylane in the lips and Juvederm in the nasolabial folds. Juvederm was only 0.6, so not much and very expensive, I paid £650 for both!
After a month I noticed that the swelling on the right side wasn’t gone and actually got a bit worse since the day of the injection, so I contacted the dermatologist and he gave me antibiotics that didn’t change anything so had it dissolved. He dissolved a lot even though I told him to inject a very small dose. My right cheek was very flat and the skin was really dull compared to the left cheek and even the nice natural plumpness I had under the eye and next to the nose was melted away!
I hoped for the best reading the answers from the doctors on this website that affirm that hyalase cannot dissolve your own fat, but it clearly did!! But anyway I waited 5 months without any improvement and I went back to the dermatologist who kindly injected 0.3 of Juvederm in the cheek. Even though it improved the cheek a bit it didn’t solve the problem cause he injected in a specific place while hyalase dissolves a bigger area. Immediately after the Juvederm injection I felt that something was wrong with my eye, so long story short I went to see a few doctors nobody knew what I had, some of them thought that it is nerve damage so the dermatologist invited me to dissolve it again. So the strange feeling to the eye improved but I now have an extremely dry eye, and an awful flat and dull as ever right cheek.
I am devastated with this result and I am asking around to see if it’s possible to sue for this disaster. I feel ugly and old, I lost interest in things and going out, so the impact that this had on my life is indescribable and extremely painful for my soul.
I don’t even know who to blame, the doctor? The Juvederm? The Hyaluronidase? Myself for letting a doctor inject me?
I am looking to see if there are any remedies to this problem but I’m not ready to take the risk to do any treatment and then dealing with other problems.
I’ve been told that profhilo could be an option to improve the skin but I am really scared to have a reaction of any kind and have to have it dissolved again. Laser, fillers or fat grafting are too risky for me and I wouldn’t consider them. I mean, even with fillers they say that reactions to them are rare, but from what happened to me and what I read online doesn’t seem so rare!
Anyone had a similar problem? And how did you solve it?
Very very sad here and feeling alone, as it’s a difficult argument to share with family or friends. Xx