Great Results with Sculptra! - San Diego, CA

I had a mini facelift, chemical peel, turn corners of my mouth up, lipo under chin and Sculptra injected all in one surgery. At the time I was a smoker and an RA patient. The doctor was aware of this but said nothing about the dangers of the product. He injected me deep with my face open from the facelift. Six months after the surgery I started having nodules coming up so fast I had no idea what was going on. I called my doctor and he say to massage it and it would go away. He acted like it was no big deal. The places on my face started breaking open all by themself when I would pat dry my face with a towel. I also lost all pigmentation in both checks from all of the sore places. I then went to 16 dermatologist who ALL said I was self mutilator and needed to see a psychiatrist. At that point I thought I was going crazy but I went to the psychiatrist anyway. After eight months he told me I was not a self mutilator and he saw I had real stuff coming out of my face. He recommended I get out of the area I was being seen in since it was the same area as the doctor who did the surgery. It referred to the good ole boy system. My face is horrible looking. I have been to three major hospitals and finally got help at Johns Hopkins. I just flew home from an appointment today. My doctor is sending me to an infectious disease doctor. He says he feels sure I have a biofilm infection. Also all of my labs show the Sculptra is still in me and this has been five years ago Since my surgery. Maybe this is a good product for some people but what about the thousands of us who are infected in a negative way. The FDA refuses to take it off the market when they know full well it was created for ONLY terminally Ill aids patients to help fill their faces out at the end of their lives. I'm not sure who or how the patent was set up but it allowed plastic surgeons everywhere to be allowed to use it. I doubt their were long term effect studies done on it since that was not for anyone except terminally I'll aids patients. That's what scares me with our FDA. They seem to be more interested in protecting the drug manufacturers rather than the people they should be working for. This has damaged a lot of people whether it's the wrong way the doctor injected it or the amount he injected. Or if you had any autoimmune disease such as RA like I did. It seemed to be all about the money with the doctor I chose and not the welfare of me, the patient. Feel free to ask me anything about the last five years. I will update you on how they are going to handle the biofilm infection I have due to the Sculptra in my body.

I'm sorry for your experience, Pawleys1.  You should write a review about it.  My question was actually for SHappy, the writer of this review.

God Bless you and good luck. Hope you are getting better