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40 Year Old Unwanted Baggage - Salisbury, MD
UPDATED FROM rainyd10
10 months post
Never use juvederm in the tear troughs???
rainyd10March 31, 2017
$400
I just changed my rating to Not Worth It. After 2 surgeries and a series of complications, I met with an opthamologist who said unfortunately she has ok average 3 patients per week who come to her with issues from juvederm in the tear troughs. She explained that no reputable surgeon should ever make that recommendation due to the unpredictable hydrophilic nature of juvederm. It's too late for me now, but hopefully someone else can read this and stop while they still have a choice! I only wanted to not look tired. I didn't want 2 surgeries, weeks away from work, dry eye complications and numerous doc visits.
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UPDATED FROM rainyd10
5 months post
What a roller coaster
rainyd10October 16, 2016
So it has been a while since I updated. For anyone considering fillers in the year troughs, do NOT use juvederm. Period. It's that simple. The hydrophilic nature of it has completely destroyed my lower eye area. From the daily struggle with water retention and puffiness, I'm now left with saggy skin and going in for a skin pinch blephoroplasty on Thursday. Doc had recommended doing a Fraxel CO2 resurface, but after reading several reviews and 300+ pics, I decided to just go with surgery. Plus it offered the least amount of downtime as I don't have much PTO from work. This has seriously been a daily struggle, and I do mean DAILY, has destroyed my self confidence and increased my already horrible anxiety. I'm terrified but really looking forward to surgery! The Radiesse in my cheeks that I raved about earlier has been ok, but I've found that what I really liked was the initial swelling from the lidocaine. Once that wore off and I ate too much salt causing my eyes to puff up, I was right back in the same boat. Attaching pics showing the under eye sagging.
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October 17, 2016
Hi, I had juvederm for both my eye troughs as well about 2 years ago., I did not realize it at the the time but I did have some sort of Tyndall affect. I'm more on the olive skin tone. It looked like I had darker pigmented "smiles" under my eyes. I also had puffiness and a tendency to look swollen under my eyes which made my eyes look smaller than they were.
I was just so happy not to have the sunken eye area under my eyes that I dismissed the overt swelling that was occurring. When I see my facial photos now I can see how distorted & unnatural my face looked as a result of the Juvederm swelling in my eye troughs. I haven't had filler under there since.
I have also been applying applying hydroquinone cream 4% for the last 6 months to under my eyes to reduce the hyperpigmentation that occurred as as a result of the Tyndall affection in my eye troughs from the juvederm. I went o see a dermatologist about that. This has helped tremendously like a 65% reduction in hyperpigmentation or Tyndall affect.
It was so interesting to see in this photo you posted what looked like an oval mosquito bite swelling in your eye trough area. I have the same exact thing!! One plastic surgeon that I went to for a consult on face lift surgery told me that was the injection site from the filler! She said she could see exactly where the other dr has injected the juvederm into my eye trough area! I never had that type of skin quality before. I decided never to do juvedem under my eyes as a result.
Thanks for sharing your experience. If helped me the better understand my own.
I was just so happy not to have the sunken eye area under my eyes that I dismissed the overt swelling that was occurring. When I see my facial photos now I can see how distorted & unnatural my face looked as a result of the Juvederm swelling in my eye troughs. I haven't had filler under there since.
I have also been applying applying hydroquinone cream 4% for the last 6 months to under my eyes to reduce the hyperpigmentation that occurred as as a result of the Tyndall affection in my eye troughs from the juvederm. I went o see a dermatologist about that. This has helped tremendously like a 65% reduction in hyperpigmentation or Tyndall affect.
It was so interesting to see in this photo you posted what looked like an oval mosquito bite swelling in your eye trough area. I have the same exact thing!! One plastic surgeon that I went to for a consult on face lift surgery told me that was the injection site from the filler! She said she could see exactly where the other dr has injected the juvederm into my eye trough area! I never had that type of skin quality before. I decided never to do juvedem under my eyes as a result.
Thanks for sharing your experience. If helped me the better understand my own.
October 17, 2016
Beauty, it's exactly where he placed one of the cannulas and overfilled. I've been told that belotero is the filler of choice for that area, but I'm hopeful that after the bleph, I won't need any more. What did you end up having done?
UPDATED FROM rainyd10
1 month post
Finally happy
rainyd10June 29, 2016
Went in yesterday and had a tiny amount of Radiesse injected into the upper cheek area. What a world of difference that made and guess what....NO BRUISING! I seriously love this woman. There is still discoloration but I'm assuming it's Tyndall and I'll just have to wait it out, but now without the extra divots and unevenness from the juvederm, a couple dabs of color corrector and it's a million times better!
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June 29, 2016
So what is the name of the injector who finally used the Radiesse to "fix" your problem?
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