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Laser Genesis Destroyed my Appearance and I Am Horrified
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Laser Genesis Destroyed my Appearance and I Am Horrified
roxealAugust 6, 2018
I am absolutely horrified what these people have done to destroy my appearance. I researched the clinic and didn't see anything posted that was bad about the place and they seemed to be in a good location. I had a Groupon for IPL or laser genesis. When I got there they recommended Laser Genesis and told me the benefits. They absolutely did not tell me the effects that were negative. They gave me two treatments and talked me into paying $400 for an additional 2 treatments, claiming that they were giving me a deal and if I didn't do the additional two treatments it wouldn't be complete. within a month or less I began to notice that my face was looking much worse. I could see that I no longer looked like myself and I was much less attractive. At 50 years old I was often mistaken for 30 or younger and always told I was beautiful and didn't even look close to my age. I had some irregularities in my skin due to medications and sun damage that I was told this treatment would help. What it did is begin to melt all the fat underneath the skin in my face. This has led to sagging skin and deep lines whenever I make an expression. I lost all my cheekbone fat padding and my face looks long thin and drawn. It is not at all attractive and I look older and ugly compared to before. My forehead feels strange and tight and whenever I lift my brows I have a bunch of skin piled up above my brows with deep lines looking like a Shar-Pei puppy. Never in my life did I have expression lines when I lifted my brows but now they are deep and very ugly and they will soon turn into deep wrinkles. I cannot get BOTOX there because I have had some facial palsy in the past. My cheekbones are just nothing but skin and you can feel the bone right through the skin and there are Hollows now in my face were there didn't used to be any. I absolutely hate to take pictures of myself now because so many of them I look absolutely awful in. I can hardly find a good angle and the bottom half of my face looks like an upside-down long triangle. I used to have a very nice shape to my face and they never mentioned once that this would cause death to the fat cells in the face and cause me to lose all my facial fat and curves. There is nothing I can do about it other than pay thousands of dollars for fat grafting or injections year after year which are very dangerous. Facial injections in the cheekbones and temple area can cause the product to accidentally hit an artery and travel to the retina of the eye and cause permanent blindness. That is terrifying to me, and I do not have thousands of dollars every year on Milo and come to get my face injected with fillers. Fillers could never replace the entire face volume that was lost. I am already thin and I did not need to lose all the volume on my face. I am horrified to see how this will progress because it has only been two months and they results are already drastic, and not in a good way at all. I am so scared what the next 6 months will bring and how bad I'm going to look when it is over. When I smile now I have empty spaces where my cheeks bone fat pads used to be. The only thing left are the little muscle in the front, but on the cheekbone there is just an indentation and deep lines. I've asked them multiple times to give me a refund of the money they are still holding that I did not use, and they refuse. I don't want these people touching my face ever again. They have ruined my life and I am devastated. Thank God I didn't let them do the last two treatments I paid for or else I would look like I was 70 years old. I have been taking before and after pictures and they very clearly show the unpleasant changes happening to my face. They continue happening for months after they melt the fat because the cells continue to die once they have been triggered by the intense heat of the laser. Skin cells can regenerate but fat cells do not regenerate the same way, especially in the face. They literally have died. I honestly feel like they need to take this treatment off the market and stop using these lasers on people until they are willing to disclose exactly what it can do to your facial fat, because I think that is partly why it's moves the lines, because there is literally nothing left underneath the skin to puff up and cause contours and lines to appear, but when you smile you see how all the skin has nothing supporting it and it just bunches up and looks awful.
UPDATED FROM roxeal
As the damage progresses I take more photos...
roxealAugust 30, 2018
And you can see basically the result of all the deflation in my face, everything begins to sag southward and pile up. My face didn't do this before. Especially the corners of the mouth where there are now deep areas that cause the looseness above it too hangover. And also the area near the nose along the nose to mouth line is deeper and the cheek skin sags over it. It's like they go at spots where you had a little line and turn it into a deep empty space instead and then it looks even worse in the long run.
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November 13, 2018
November 13, 2018
I'm sorry it happened to you too, it's horrifying because there's really nothing you can do about it. Even if you try to get corrective measures done, they can never get your face the way it was because it's all over damage. Even fat transfer is questionable in what results you will get and where the fat will grow and how and it cost almost $5,000. I desperately need a car right now I don't need to pay for that. They already have $400 of my money that they refused to give back to me and are lying about how it was applied to my treatments, and then I had to pay an extra thousand just to start to have some relief from the damage and that is only going to be temporary. I don't have thousands of dollars over my lifetime to waste on something that was there before and now is taken away from me. And yes I hate how they lie and I hate how they act so stupid and tell you that this never happens to anyone else because it's totally not true. I've seen photos all over the Internet of people who after this treatment had areas of their face that were just shrank away. But, obviously they didn't care or they didn't notice or maybe they liked it the way it was afterwards with the shrunken tissues. There needs to be some type of warning it shouldn't be all about just the money. It shouldn't be all about just getting more people in the door and telling them what they want to hear and taking their money and then telling them oh well that's too bad. If they do something to you and don't disclose they should pay for the repairs. And last time I went in there they had the place remodeled once again but they can't give me my $400 back. What am I supposed to do? They truly are cold hearted people and very money hungry people. All they care about is what they put in their wallets, they don't care what they take out of yours. I have been in there five times in person begging them for a refund and now my car is breaking down and I can't even drive all the way over there which is pointless because all they do is try to give me the runaround. They even went so far as to try to tell me that the $400 certificate that I purchased for the two treatments was misapplied and $200 of the $400 cash that they took from me after the first treatment which was to be used after the first two certificate treatments were used, was applied before the certificate. So apparently half of my certificate is still there and half of my cash is still there. The certificate is for the treatment that damaged me, why the heck would I want more of that? It also doesn't make sense because when I paid the $400 they said that I could get a refund, but I think she was just agreeing to anything to get me to hand her my credit card, no lie. I was being very cautious because I had no idea whether I was going to react well to these treatments and I was very hesitant to give them another $400 of my money, not knowing if I really was going to need or want for treatment. That is exactly why I specifically asked her if I don't want to do the additional treatments, can I get a refund. I asked her before I even gave her my credit card. I'm very careful with my money because I'm very low income.
When when I went back,I told her you said I could get a refund if I didn't like the treatment and I didn't want to use the $400 and they tried to tell me no we never told you that we told you you could use it on a different service. I swear to God on the Bible, they (the woman at the front desk that makes up stories to cover her own trail of lies and sales manipulation) said nothing of the sort, and they were SO insistent that I needed to pay that $400 after the first treatment,to make sure that they locked me in for an additional two treatments for a total of 4. of course they tell you that if you don't pay right now you're not going to get a good deal later on, meanwhile you see other people coming in the door, paying even less than what they charged me for the supposedly discount priced additional treatments. It took only two treatments to melt my face, why the heck would I want two more, so I can look like a skeleton face?
There were so many inconsistencies, it just got ridiculous. my next step is to make a big board and go stand in front of their business as long as it takes. I'm going to show before and after pictures of my face and share with people exactly what could happen to them when they walk in there and get laser genesis. And if they try to make me leave I'll just stand near the entrance to the building on the street where they can't make me go away.
When when I went back,I told her you said I could get a refund if I didn't like the treatment and I didn't want to use the $400 and they tried to tell me no we never told you that we told you you could use it on a different service. I swear to God on the Bible, they (the woman at the front desk that makes up stories to cover her own trail of lies and sales manipulation) said nothing of the sort, and they were SO insistent that I needed to pay that $400 after the first treatment,to make sure that they locked me in for an additional two treatments for a total of 4. of course they tell you that if you don't pay right now you're not going to get a good deal later on, meanwhile you see other people coming in the door, paying even less than what they charged me for the supposedly discount priced additional treatments. It took only two treatments to melt my face, why the heck would I want two more, so I can look like a skeleton face?
There were so many inconsistencies, it just got ridiculous. my next step is to make a big board and go stand in front of their business as long as it takes. I'm going to show before and after pictures of my face and share with people exactly what could happen to them when they walk in there and get laser genesis. And if they try to make me leave I'll just stand near the entrance to the building on the street where they can't make me go away.
February 22, 2019
Omg this is awful! I’m so sorry this happened to you. I have been researching different types of non invasive treatments to help my skin and try to get it more firm.... I will definitely NOT be doing laser genesis. I hope you get your remaining money back.
March 24, 2019
Hello,
I just bought this same Groupon for timeless laser center. I have my genesis laser treatment scheduled for Tuesday, can you please tell me the name of the person who performed it on you there?
I just bought this same Groupon for timeless laser center. I have my genesis laser treatment scheduled for Tuesday, can you please tell me the name of the person who performed it on you there?
March 24, 2019
Jessica, I do not mean to 'intrude' but as another victim of laser I would strongly recommend you do not let these people anywhere near your face with a laser. You can read how they treated roxeal when things went wrong, they did not disclose the risks. These are red flags honestly. Please please, if things go wrong they are absolutely life altering. And with these people the risks seem to be very high. So many have sustained damage from laser and all report fat loss, orange peel skin, more wrinkles and really eerie things happening because of the detrimental effect it has on elastin and collagen fibers in your skin. Only those damaged and some doctors are speaking out but there is science which explains what happens with thermal injury and many practitioners aren't sufficiently trained or informed or simply do not care because it has to bring in money once the investment is done and they know victims have no legal recourse. (do not sign a waiver) Again please take it from someone who is experiencing the same thing. Because I was damaged and desperate to understand what was happening and finding a solution I started to investigate. It has resulted in a nearly 70 page long dissertation with scientific evidence, confirmation from doctors and countless accounts from victims. Please do not let them treat your face. Please be safe.
March 24, 2019
I don't know what the name, it was the nurse that does them. She looks middle-aged and has medium brown hair, sort of a reddish tint. The only thing I suggest is that you not go very hot with the laser. Make sure they do a mild treatment and then give it 6 weeks to watch the results. They want you to do them back-to-back but I don't recommend this because you don't know what the laser is doing to you until you see how your skin begins to change and the flesh might change after the first treatment. This will minimize any bad effects that you have by waiting to see how your body is going to react. Especially if you are slender or older. The body can react differently depending on the rate that you heal and how much fat you have in your face. This is the only advice I have for you. If you don't want to use the treatments on your face you can always try using them on the abdomen or another area. I don't recommend buying additional treatments while you are there because this is an upsell that they do after you're done with your first or second treatment. Don't buy additional treatments until you are sure about three months later that the first treatments did not already take away too much volume. I chose to stop after the first two treatments even though they talked me into paying for two more so now I have two treatments that I have to decide what I want to do with. Everyone is different,and there is a chance that you can be disappointed or you can end up being happy with it. You can also take the benefits of the laser that you get from it and if you lose volume you can try some fillers to replace it and then you get the benefits of both. Only do this if you have the money to invest.
UPDATED FROM roxeal
More sagging and depressed areas in the face due to volume loss from Genesis laser
roxealSeptember 6, 2018
I'm so sad my face just keeps sagging and this is now hitting my jawline and my neck. You can see the depression in the tear trough area and also in the nose to mouth line and at the corners of the mouth. It was never like this in my lifetime. The line between my eyebrows that used to be just a line is now a deep Furrow like a canyon has been created there because there was just no fat left around it after Genesis melted everything. I would give anything to go back and run as fast as I could away from that clinic they have ruined my appearance for life.
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October 24, 2018
i'd like to see more before pics please
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You know how you can make them pay the price? Comment on their instagram all the damage you have suffered so their followers know that lasers are not a game, but horrible and agressive devices.
I have done it and it worked.