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Heartbroken over what I’m left with for 25k
I’ve really wavered over this review for 9 months. I had a nearly 25k mommy make over done by Rikesh Parikh 1/9/2021. When i had my multiple consultations this was what was discussed that would be done
1.extended tummy tuck with mons lift 2.Lipo to: abdomen, flanks, back,bra roll and side boob and mons 3. Breast lift with implant
When i met with Parikh my plan was actually just for a tummy tuck. But when we got to taking one of the things that bothered me almost more than the tummy way my side boob area. I have always had a large roll of boob ther wraps around my body. He suggested a lift and lipo to fix this. I explained i don’t like the look of a lift alone because there is not upper pole volume and it gives a ski slope look with your nipple weirdly plopped on top. He agreed and we said let’s do an implant. Initially we agreed on a small 275cc as i was already a 36ddd. The day of surgery he said he would use anywhere from 275-400 depending on what looked best and fit best, and he would bring different sizes into the or to ‘try them on for size’.
The week of my surgery i got a text telling me my post op appt was pushed to 9 days past surgery. I was confused, & called to see why. I was told he was going out of town due to the loss of a close family member immediately after my surgery. needless to say i was scared of him operating being so emotional and grieving. I asked him if he was 100% sure he would be in a place to operate and operate well still or if we should reschedule. He promised he was good.
I truly believe he is a good surgeon. I researched the hell out or surgeons, sound 9 total consultations before choosing him. But i believe the day of my surgery he was too distracted to do his best work
I started messaging just days after surgery i was worried. There was green oozing coming from my stomach incision. I got multiple texts back telling me it was normal. I was told everything was normal over and over and over, until i was hospitalized with a massive infection confirmed by CT, and blood work in a local hospital. But surgeons don’t mess with other Surgeons work. I was transfered to over lake where Parikh was now my doctor. He opened up 2 small spots and did a culture for infection. But spent the next 36 hours telling me I’m fine. No infection. It’s all normal, and I can be discharged. Finally he tells the nurses to discharge me. I end up sobbing to the nursing staff telling them I’m going to go home and die; i knew i wasn’t ok. The holes were getting bigger. The oozing was getting worse. The nurse bless her, fought for me. She showed me by culture results the doctor didn’t even look at before deciding to discharge me. Which showed a massive pseudomonas infection. when he heard i was refusing discharge he came into my room to talk to me. I asked what did my cultures show, as the nurse suggested He said ‘they’re negative’. I said ‘are you sure’. And he said ‘are the not?’ Then proceeds to look. Eyes widen and he says well this is more serious. This infection is rare and aggressive. And the antibiotics we are using have 0 effectiveness on this bacteria.
That same day when he was there I told him i was having pain and heat on my breast incisions that were still tapped. He said ‘normal’ didn’t look at them.
They ordered antibiotics for the pseudomonas and discharged me. I get home that night and the Pain in the chest incisions were so horrible i took the tape off. And damn if they were horrible. Open, oozing green, clearly infection. I’m mortified. I text them panicking, want to guess the response ‘it’s normal’. I lost it. For the first time in weeks of this i lost it. I was calling a lawyer and let them know. He suddenly was willing to see me and seemed concerned.
Now I’m home. I have 2 open wounds on my tummy tuck incision that need an excruciating wound packing 2 times a day. He has me use a wet packing with a Dakins bleach splint ion and tells me to pack it as full as i can. Says i don’t need wound care
I spend the next several week fighting this infection, packing these wounds. He says they’re looking great, but they aren’t getting better. I do 2 weeks of the antibiotics and he says stop. I stop, within hours I’m back in the hospital. Fever infection raging. They culture it for me (local hospital) and find now i have just as much or more pseudomonas than i did before in stomach and breasts, as well as staph now. He gives me a different antibiotic. At this point Finally a referral to a infectious disease specialist. Open wound with packing and cleaning and antibiotics for 8 weeks.
I see the specialist says this infection is so rampant; Oral antibiotics aren’t going to fix this. Re-affirms what i knew, i should have been kept in the hospital on the IV antibiotics for a minimum of 3 days to get ahead of it instead of getting tossed out immediately with pills.
They had to put in a picc line, where i had to give myself iv antibiotics for 2 weeks, every 6 hours. By day 3 it was looking amazing. The specialist also referred me to wound care. She was amazing. Said they had me doing it all wrong. The dakins was killing the live tissue keeping it from closing. They said Dakins is an old ww2 wound treatment and no wound care specialist would ever use it. They said you never a wound as that kills live tissue and prevents closing. You gently place a small strip inside. Within 5 days my wound was closed and infection showed no signs of being present. Finished my last 9 days of antibiotics and was all infection and wound free. 14 days. After 8 weeks of pure torture. 10 weeks of this hell i lived.
My total bills for hospital bills from all this excluding the surgery was almost 20k, even though Parikh promised me i would have no financial detriment due to the complications
He tells me every time since I’ve seen him he’s going to do free scar revision. I literally look like Frankenstein, cry over it almost daily. I have so many nasty scars everywhere. As i begin to heal i start to see the results problems. The biggest being the mons area. I think he forgot to do the lipo there like agreed. I have a huge bulge there. Can be seen in clothes, it looks like a ken doll package. Undressed it’s humiliating
Then there are the boobs. They are total pancake boobs. There were amazing the first 5 weeks after, then they ‘settled’ and flopped. They lay completely against my body on the bottom. There is no cleavage roundness in top. I have almost 0 upper Pope volume. My nipples are drastically different in size. Not only do i have horrible scaring on the boobs from all the infections ignored too long but he picked an implant so large (425) he couldn’t close it completely. So i have a 1 inch wide are of left over areola left behind, so now i have areola under my areola. The side boob he was going to lipo is identical to before. There was no lipo done there (the pain is intense after you know where you had lipo).
I go to him to see how to fix these things. First he tells me i need bigger implants. Then it’s the implants are too big and that’s why he couldn’t close them all the way and why they are doing what they are (we were supposed to pick what fit best that day. I would assume the ones you couldn’t close around wouldn’t be the best fit…)
On top of all this he tells me at this appt after 9 months of wanting to fix these horrible scars and I’m finally on board he is nervous to do it now.
I get the estimate to fix what i was told was app going to be done in my first 25k surgery; will cost me ANOTHER 25k to fix what i already paid to do.
And truly i still couldn’t get a straight answer if it would be fixed in my appt
Like i said in the beginning i truly believed he was a good surgeon, who lost a family member the week of my surgery and flew home to the funeral the day of my surgery and that was a distraction that didn’t give me his best work. And he was so busy when he got back operating 7 days a week to catch up from his trip home i didn’t get the post op care i needed. But i trying to be understanding of what he was going through.
But now 8 months later, with truly terrible results i feel like it’s time to move on. I am over 45k+ into this surgery with these results. And looking at a minimum of 25k to fix them, it’s time to seek out someone else who can be honest with if any of this can be fixed or not. I’m just not looking to be in 6 figures and still unhappy, and i no longer have any confidence i can get the results i paid for. So it’s time to search for someone to help fix me
1.extended tummy tuck with mons lift 2.Lipo to: abdomen, flanks, back,bra roll and side boob and mons 3. Breast lift with implant
When i met with Parikh my plan was actually just for a tummy tuck. But when we got to taking one of the things that bothered me almost more than the tummy way my side boob area. I have always had a large roll of boob ther wraps around my body. He suggested a lift and lipo to fix this. I explained i don’t like the look of a lift alone because there is not upper pole volume and it gives a ski slope look with your nipple weirdly plopped on top. He agreed and we said let’s do an implant. Initially we agreed on a small 275cc as i was already a 36ddd. The day of surgery he said he would use anywhere from 275-400 depending on what looked best and fit best, and he would bring different sizes into the or to ‘try them on for size’.
The week of my surgery i got a text telling me my post op appt was pushed to 9 days past surgery. I was confused, & called to see why. I was told he was going out of town due to the loss of a close family member immediately after my surgery. needless to say i was scared of him operating being so emotional and grieving. I asked him if he was 100% sure he would be in a place to operate and operate well still or if we should reschedule. He promised he was good.
I truly believe he is a good surgeon. I researched the hell out or surgeons, sound 9 total consultations before choosing him. But i believe the day of my surgery he was too distracted to do his best work
I started messaging just days after surgery i was worried. There was green oozing coming from my stomach incision. I got multiple texts back telling me it was normal. I was told everything was normal over and over and over, until i was hospitalized with a massive infection confirmed by CT, and blood work in a local hospital. But surgeons don’t mess with other Surgeons work. I was transfered to over lake where Parikh was now my doctor. He opened up 2 small spots and did a culture for infection. But spent the next 36 hours telling me I’m fine. No infection. It’s all normal, and I can be discharged. Finally he tells the nurses to discharge me. I end up sobbing to the nursing staff telling them I’m going to go home and die; i knew i wasn’t ok. The holes were getting bigger. The oozing was getting worse. The nurse bless her, fought for me. She showed me by culture results the doctor didn’t even look at before deciding to discharge me. Which showed a massive pseudomonas infection. when he heard i was refusing discharge he came into my room to talk to me. I asked what did my cultures show, as the nurse suggested He said ‘they’re negative’. I said ‘are you sure’. And he said ‘are the not?’ Then proceeds to look. Eyes widen and he says well this is more serious. This infection is rare and aggressive. And the antibiotics we are using have 0 effectiveness on this bacteria.
That same day when he was there I told him i was having pain and heat on my breast incisions that were still tapped. He said ‘normal’ didn’t look at them.
They ordered antibiotics for the pseudomonas and discharged me. I get home that night and the Pain in the chest incisions were so horrible i took the tape off. And damn if they were horrible. Open, oozing green, clearly infection. I’m mortified. I text them panicking, want to guess the response ‘it’s normal’. I lost it. For the first time in weeks of this i lost it. I was calling a lawyer and let them know. He suddenly was willing to see me and seemed concerned.
Now I’m home. I have 2 open wounds on my tummy tuck incision that need an excruciating wound packing 2 times a day. He has me use a wet packing with a Dakins bleach splint ion and tells me to pack it as full as i can. Says i don’t need wound care
I spend the next several week fighting this infection, packing these wounds. He says they’re looking great, but they aren’t getting better. I do 2 weeks of the antibiotics and he says stop. I stop, within hours I’m back in the hospital. Fever infection raging. They culture it for me (local hospital) and find now i have just as much or more pseudomonas than i did before in stomach and breasts, as well as staph now. He gives me a different antibiotic. At this point Finally a referral to a infectious disease specialist. Open wound with packing and cleaning and antibiotics for 8 weeks.
I see the specialist says this infection is so rampant; Oral antibiotics aren’t going to fix this. Re-affirms what i knew, i should have been kept in the hospital on the IV antibiotics for a minimum of 3 days to get ahead of it instead of getting tossed out immediately with pills.
They had to put in a picc line, where i had to give myself iv antibiotics for 2 weeks, every 6 hours. By day 3 it was looking amazing. The specialist also referred me to wound care. She was amazing. Said they had me doing it all wrong. The dakins was killing the live tissue keeping it from closing. They said Dakins is an old ww2 wound treatment and no wound care specialist would ever use it. They said you never a wound as that kills live tissue and prevents closing. You gently place a small strip inside. Within 5 days my wound was closed and infection showed no signs of being present. Finished my last 9 days of antibiotics and was all infection and wound free. 14 days. After 8 weeks of pure torture. 10 weeks of this hell i lived.
My total bills for hospital bills from all this excluding the surgery was almost 20k, even though Parikh promised me i would have no financial detriment due to the complications
He tells me every time since I’ve seen him he’s going to do free scar revision. I literally look like Frankenstein, cry over it almost daily. I have so many nasty scars everywhere. As i begin to heal i start to see the results problems. The biggest being the mons area. I think he forgot to do the lipo there like agreed. I have a huge bulge there. Can be seen in clothes, it looks like a ken doll package. Undressed it’s humiliating
Then there are the boobs. They are total pancake boobs. There were amazing the first 5 weeks after, then they ‘settled’ and flopped. They lay completely against my body on the bottom. There is no cleavage roundness in top. I have almost 0 upper Pope volume. My nipples are drastically different in size. Not only do i have horrible scaring on the boobs from all the infections ignored too long but he picked an implant so large (425) he couldn’t close it completely. So i have a 1 inch wide are of left over areola left behind, so now i have areola under my areola. The side boob he was going to lipo is identical to before. There was no lipo done there (the pain is intense after you know where you had lipo).
I go to him to see how to fix these things. First he tells me i need bigger implants. Then it’s the implants are too big and that’s why he couldn’t close them all the way and why they are doing what they are (we were supposed to pick what fit best that day. I would assume the ones you couldn’t close around wouldn’t be the best fit…)
On top of all this he tells me at this appt after 9 months of wanting to fix these horrible scars and I’m finally on board he is nervous to do it now.
I get the estimate to fix what i was told was app going to be done in my first 25k surgery; will cost me ANOTHER 25k to fix what i already paid to do.
And truly i still couldn’t get a straight answer if it would be fixed in my appt
Like i said in the beginning i truly believed he was a good surgeon, who lost a family member the week of my surgery and flew home to the funeral the day of my surgery and that was a distraction that didn’t give me his best work. And he was so busy when he got back operating 7 days a week to catch up from his trip home i didn’t get the post op care i needed. But i trying to be understanding of what he was going through.
But now 8 months later, with truly terrible results i feel like it’s time to move on. I am over 45k+ into this surgery with these results. And looking at a minimum of 25k to fix them, it’s time to seek out someone else who can be honest with if any of this can be fixed or not. I’m just not looking to be in 6 figures and still unhappy, and i no longer have any confidence i can get the results i paid for. So it’s time to search for someone to help fix me
4 weeks post op.
This was my before,5 & 10 days post op. I’ll take some more next week. Still so much swelling
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