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Perlane Never Again-Going to Obliterate This Crap from my Face Using Sauna, Microcurrent, and Lymphstar Pro - Royal Oak, MI

UPDATED FROM Wantmyfaceback
5 years post

Breaking Ties

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$600
I finally threw away the cute shoes and clothes I was waiting to wear when my face came back. At 5 years, 9 months, and 16 days, I don’t think it’s ever coming back.
Goodbye, shoes. Goodbye, skirts. Goodbye, face. :(

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October 31, 2019
I'm sorry you feel so sad. I do, too. A part of me died when my face was destroyed. I miss the person I was prior to the filler. Confident, alive, spunky and so full of zeal. In my darkest days, I turn to God and pour my heart out to him. I know He is listening, and I know He can heal anything. I will say a prayer for you. Sending you kind thoughts.
November 5, 2019
I shall pray for you too. Kind thoughts back.
November 5, 2019
I don’t mean to say filler taught me bitterness, but it certainly built a wall (physically and figuratively) between me and other people’s opinions.
Hey, take what we can get...
:-)
December 13, 2019
I'm so sorry you've had all of these issues. I'm terrified my filler under my eyes will stay here forever. So, after 6 years your filler hasn't gone away? How miserable! Has it improved at all?
November 20, 2019
This story is moving and important, I thank the lord each day and pray for anyone having challenges. I hope your doing better! Please can you tell me if the Lymphstar Pro has helped you and how?
UPDATED FROM Wantmyfaceback
5 years post

Going on six years- no change

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This is an update. I’m sad to relay that there is no change in the goo formations. I realize this is going to be very hard news for anyone like me who, in the early days, was looking for hope.
One thing I can say is that how I see myself and the world has changed. When you’re no longer able to look in a mirror and smile, and find new reasons to smile that have nothing to do with appearance. That doesn’t mean I forgive the idiot injector who abused my face: she had no right to take such liberties, drawing asymmetrical abstract art on my perfectly good face. I’ll never forgive that, but that’s hers to live with. Hopefully she never forgets what she did, since having to see myself in the mirror, however briefly each day, I don’t have the luxury of forgetting.
But life goes on and some day we all die. Some lucky embalmer will wonder why I died pre-embalmed. He’ll get a real deal that day, making his full wages, out back smoking a cigarette since some mortician wanna-be pumped my face full of cemented goo way back in 2013.
I’m sorry I can’t offer more hope for those looking for physical improvement/ degenerative filler during their earthly life, but I can honestly say that the hell I’ve been through has changed me so profoundly that I know I’d be living some other life had this not happened. Maybe that life would have been better, but I love my life just as it is. (Except my face) I no longer think about it 24/7, as I did for the first however many years of it, but I do think about it many times per day. If it’s still on my mind 24/7, it’s not as loud. How’s that?
If I can live through this, anyone can. I’ve never been so sad for so long in my life. But I’m not sad now. Now it just “is”. It’s still awful, but I’m living again. Differently than before and certainly not how I’d ever intended, but living.
Keep going.

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July 24, 2019
I'm from Royal Oak MI, I live in FL now and have been here since the 80's. I would say maybe CA is the place to live if you want good face work. I had Perlane yrs ago but it only lasted about 2 yrs. I wasn't happy either, But today they have Hyaluronidase, u don't have to live with it. Almost any Derm or PA can inject this into the area you dislike and it will dissolve it.
UPDATED FROM Wantmyfaceback
2 years post

This is filler

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This is what filler does when injected in what my friend and I refer to as The Pattern. We both received this pattern, which aged us as it ages celebs who get same filler pattern. I hate it and so does my friend. WE WERE NOT WARNED that our faces would be aged or that we'd have huge lumps next to our mouths. Here is Mary Kate Olsen and Katie Holmes with The Pattern. Mine has still not gone down. It will be 3 years on October 8.

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August 1, 2016
I had my under eyes filled (sadly-had I known I never would've touched them) and 3 years later I still had what I would describe as worms (long unnatural lumpy strands) under my eyes. My ps was certain it was stubborn filler and did a micro droplet of hyaluronidase in each one . Finally! Some reduction!! And it was immediate !
I was terrified to take the risk but now I'm so glad that I did. I may go back for one more drop into the largest lump as it's still rearing its ugly head. But as it is now I'm feeling much happier about the results. I've never had under eye bags prior to fillers there and these lumps were pretty atrocious. Maybe consider the tiniest micro droplet to see ? I do understand waiting out a bad filler !! It's the worst! These never seemed to be dissipating on their own -as I was told-even a tiny bit so I feel your frustration. :(
I do believe you will get your smooth skin back.
August 3, 2016
What's the latest? Hope things have improved.
August 3, 2016
You look magnificent in the last two pictures If they are before I understand your being upset if after perlane, is hard for me to understand. you are very pretty. Don't loose sight of that.
August 25, 2016
Using a vibration massager does help
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August 30, 2016
It looks like those celebs had buccal fat pad removed