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It just doesn't get any better, I'm stuck like this
Fillers are wearing off and the damage is starting to become apparent again. I've already spent over $2,000 that I don't have, I really feel like the people who do these things to your face should be responsible to repair the damage and pay the expenses. if I had $5,500 for transfer of fat I would totally do it, but I don't. My car is breaking down and that is all I can deal with right now. I literally have to replace my car or my face, I think my car is going to win. This is sad.
The damage continues
I swear on my life my skin and never did this before laser Genesis melted the fat layer from under the skin and left everything loose and looking like a Shar-Pei puppy when I smile. the only thing that gets rid of this look for a short time is $1,000 worth of filler. I'm low income and that's just not doable on a regular basis for me. I did Voluma once and I did restylane twice, and now I can't do anymore because I'm broke. I did it at first because I just couldn't handle the changes in my face and I felt so ugly and old and traumatized by how I've been damaged, literally overnight. in my opinion, if a place is willing to sell something like this to you and do this to your face, they should be willing to cover the upkeep after the damage is done. It's only fair.
A blessing and a curse
I do see the little improvements that you are supposed to get from lasers, but the damage that has been permanently done to me that I have to fight the rest of my life was definitely not worth it. I could have gotten the same results with a little bit of filler or a chemical peel without all the damage. I would say at the moment, the most frustrating thing is that I have to pay so damn much for fillers and they just keep on wearing off. the only benefit is that it gives me a period of time when I feel like I look good again and I don't have to think about what happened to me. The nose to mouth line fillers are wearing off and I am beginning to see again the place at the right of my mouth where there is now like a groove of fat missing. It is quite unattractive. I have more face creams than you have ever seen in your life. Probably 20 different types now, and I'm always researching more. I have done micro-needling and chemical peels, I have aluminum oxide crystals that I can use for doing dermabrasion in the shower, I have tried face blasting, I also notice now as things progressed, that my skin has a definite orange-peel texture that it never had before. I always had young beautiful looking skin that was smooth, and I always was mistaken for being 25 to 30 years old even when I was going on 50. Now it is much easier to tell my age and it is as if my face just collapses and I have to try to build it up again with these horrible injections. If I stop doing the injections, eventually my face will become flat and droopy and the droopiness makes its way down to my neck, and nobody wants the turkey neck. My most recent foray into attempting an improvement without spending hundreds of dollars is to try at home fibroblast treatments. I've done a small area and it healed well and looks fine. I plan on doing more, but you have to numb the skin first with some type of numbing cream. I have 5% lidocaine ointment for this purpose. I am going to see what improvements I can get in this way before I get more fillers. I really miss my beautiful cheekbones and the fullness of my face. It just isn't there anymore and never will be. I am left with too much skin, and when I smile the skin still piles up across my face in these ripples of lines oh, like a Shar-Pei puppy. And whenever I lift my brow there are all these deep froze all the way across my forehead up and down that never existed before. I just try not to think about it and use moisturizer, because I also have dry skin now that I never had before. the pores on my nose are also out of control and across my cheeks and forehead you can see the orange peel texture that is awful. I know this is a side effect of lasers because many people have suffered this type of difficult to resolve skin damage from lasers.
Provider Review
Timeless Age Defying Laser Clinic, San Diego