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I Look Like a Fish After Lip Augmentation

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I had lip augmentation done and the doctor sucked....

$400

I had lip augmentation done and the doctor sucked. He over-injected my lips with restylane and now i look like a fish. My lips are so huge and swollen, that i look stupid. The whole world can see that i look like Melanie Griffith now.

My lips are too huge and too full for my face and if i apply lipstick, then i look almost scary. I had pretty thin lips and i told the doctor that i wanted fuller lips. I never told him that i want the fullest lips on this planet. Now i need to research and get the procedure reversed. It's going to cost me even more money now to undo this. The injection hirt a bit and there was some swelling.

At first, i thought that my lips looked so huge because of the swelling. But when even after 3 weeks the lips styed huge, i realised that it was not swelling. My lips had just become that big. I was angry and upset, obviously. I still have fish lips that i need to get removed. I have to live with this for a while now since i need time to research a good doctor who can make me look normal again and also need some money.

I hate restylane from the bottom of my heart.

Replies (5)

naomi - so sorry about your bad restylane experience! yikes. i guess the good news is that restylane will eventually get abosrbed by your body. not like this was a silicon injection. still, this stinks. you should tell others who was your dr so we can be careful MONA
Yes, I feel so awful for you! How many cc's did he put in? Tell your doc you are pissed and he did too much, he should correct this for free. Not that you want him to ever touch you again....
I had fat injections during rhinoplasty...and it looks awful. My upper lip is twice the size of my lower lip. Do you know of anything I can do to reverse this?
Naomi, I am sorry you had such a bad experience. If it still bothers you it cane be dissolved completely. I am usually conservative at to the amount.
Don't hate restylane, dislike the doctor. I had restylane for the first time in my lips and it was perfect. It really depends on who injects you, how much experience, their techique when injecting, where they inject for your specific lip shape, and how much is put in. I was given a small about. .35ml and it made a difference and looked natural and I had no major swelling or buising. I'm so sorry you went through that. I did pay a lot for mine, $800 which was more than I wanted, as I saw other doctors offered for less, but this doctor had 5 stars across the board on every review platform and he also didn't try to oversell any product. He actually told me what I didn't need and said the only thing he wanted to do was the lip filler and just a tiny amount. Anyway, point is-- doing proper research on who you trust with your lips makes a huge difference, along with before and after care. I'm assuming the person who injected you was not qualified.
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