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Happier Without the Implant

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I had a face lift, chin implant, and lip lift. ...

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Lindanj2
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I had a face lift, chin implant, and lip lift. The implant felt a little strange. I had a great profile,, but everyone thought I looked weird. Then my lip started to droop and I looked like I had a stroke. My lips looked strange when I ate or spoke. I had it taken out yesterday and now I feel like myself again. The drooping lip is better and I feel so much better. There is still swelling and the doctor said to be prepared for my chin to go back, although I'm hoping that some scar tissue will remain. But now I can appreciate the face lift.

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August 9, 2013

I'm so glad you started your story! I'm glad to hear you are feeling better now that you had the implant removed. Are you having to take pain meds, or is the discomfort not too bad?

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August 9, 2013
Thanks for responding. Support is so important during this process. I don't have any pain. I did get a mid face lift along with the implant, so now I can finally see the good job my doctor did on that. I think my biggest problem is disappointment. This is a surgery that I really wanted since I was 13. I'm not sure why there was a problem, but I think I didn't really expect the implant to be so large. I didn't want to become a model. Years ago the same doctor operated on my daughter. He gave her a nose job and popped the bone from her nose into her chin. Never a problem about what size the implant was. And I never heard of the word explant because I've never heard of a problem. He showed me how he mathematically decided on the size, and then customized the implant. However my face is shaped like an upside down triangle and I think he made an implant that felt like I was wearing an ankle-weight from the bottom of my face. I've been keeping an extensive photo and video journal about this journey and I will post it after the healing is completed in a couple of weeks.
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2 months post

Life after disappointment

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Day 2 after the implant has been removed. I know that I have tidbits of responses in different parts of this website. I'm not sure how to compile it together, but I feel great and can finally appreciate my facelift because I'm not obsessing over my lip and saying the alphabet twenty times a day. I only say it once or twice a day now just to convince myself that my mouth is working correctly.

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2 months post

Day three withou the implant

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I'm still obsessing in the mirror. This implant has definitely taken up too much of my summer. I'm still very swollen and my face is starting to look like a deflating balloon. It's starting to give me buyers' remorse, but the side effects of that implant were making me crazy. Today I looked at the last picture taken of me with the implant and aside from the lip going down, my nostril being distorted in a downward slant, my eyes were also going in two different directions. My right eye looked like it was large, round and looked like it was going to pop out of my head. But I did finally get the profile I always wanted. The distortions haven't gone back to normal. And I hope that the rest of that sentence could be... have not gone back to normal yet. However, my speech has come back and that was really my concern since I am a teacher and school will be starting soon. I don't know what story I will make up at school for my distorted look. I guess if someone asks me what happen, I'll just say that it was the result of dental work. Might as well blame the dentist.
Everyone hates the dentist, and it works better than saying that I had a failed chin implant. I'm hoping that the swelling goes down enough by Monday so I can visit my grandchildren. My speech and facial movements were so off that I was afraid of scaring them. However, I did have a great profile for six weeks. Buyer's remorse?

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