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Laser Genesis Destroyed my Appearance and I Am Horrified

UPDATED FROM roxeal

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.

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Timeless Age Defying Laser Clinic, San Diego

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So you mean to tell me after over a year, there is no glimmer of hope in recovery from all this? I’m only 7 months into this ordeal and people like me look up to people like you and others who are further along in the process for hope or something to hold on to. We all can’t just continue to go through life devastated forever, something has to give.. did the pain on your nose from wearing glasses subside yet?
Well, I got new glasses and actually that got better. I think I just had a bad pair of glasses. I will tell you that overtime you forget what you lost and you start to adjust to a new appearance, but I only had two treatments. Some people have more devastating effects because they went further with it. They encourage you to do multiple treatments one after the other so close together that you really don't know what is happening until it's too late. in my opinion they should give you one treatment and have you wait a few months and see how you respond and then carry on. I think it is extremely scandalous the way that they're sucking money out of people to ruin their face. And the way that they hold themselves to zero accountability. the only thing I can say is that you have to just bite the bullet and invest a little bit of money in finding a good spa that knows how to do the fillers correctly and do the upkeep. I believe the more you do fillers the easier it gets because they kind of start to accumulate and don't wear off quite as fast as the first couple times. ice also am employing facial exercise more again like I used to, I try to do a lot of different things to make my skin look good and try to keep my weight up. If I get tooth in the effects get much worse. They only answer is probably facial fat transfer if you really want to try to look again like you did, or better. when they tell you that your face will plump up it's not true. I don't know where they get these ideas for him but they're taking away, they're not adding to the structure of your face. I would say that probably the damage that was done the most at first in the first 6 months, I either got used to it or my body adjusted to it and made a little bit of extra collagen. I used to have lines all the way down my cheeks and face that were really bad and the fillers helped out a little bit, but I feel like they are maybe 25% better than they were at the worst. I would say possibly we can have about a 25% recovery naturally, and the rest we have to work on. It's just a constant battle. For example, I have a list that I made myself last night of all the skin treatments that I plan to work on for myself at home. These include fillers around the mouth in the corners, needling plus serum, needling pen with serum, fascia blasting face and head, glycolic peels to face neck and hands, fibroblast treatments, using facial steamer and comedone and coming down to try to improve horse, face exercises, rosewater electric mister. one thing I really don't care for is the damage on my forehead. Ever since they did my forehead it feels tight and there are lines all across it that never used to be there. These are not expression lines they're just all these horizontal lines that are like the collagen have broken down or something. hopefully some of the facial treatments I'm doing in the future will help. I'm trying to wait until winter so that I have less sun exposure because it's not good to have sun exposure after certain treatments. I would say I'm definitely going to have to keep up the cheek fillers over time because without them my whole face collapses from below the eye all the way to the neck it just all begins to droop and I get jowls and saggy neck and the fat under my eyes starts to bulge out and my face starts looking really flat and old. It is also important to have a good cleansing and skin care routine, protect the skin from the sun with good sunblock products, satin pillowcase is supposedly helpful to keep from pulling the skin at night, and sleep and hydration are also excellent for the skin. I just turned 52 and I definitely noticed a difference when I don't get enough sleep, everything dries up and sags a lot worse. I wish there was some magic bullet to give back all of the things that these treatments took away, but all we can do is move forward.
How are you doing now?? Did your laser atrophy stop completely? Did some things get better?
So sorry to hear about your experience! How many treatments did you have! When did you start noticing these adverse effects?
Have things gotten better with time? Recently had laser and am in the same boat. Very worried what the future holds. Been looking into ways to correct it but question my judgement at times after getting laser and not knowing what will do more harm than good is frustrating.
I had the same thing from laser genesis I had no idea this could happen, I’m in my 30s and wanted to be a strong confident role model for my daughters but now I’m weak and vaunerable
UPDATED FROM roxeal

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.

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UPDATED FROM roxeal

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.

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I meant to say deep furrows across my forehead. I'm not sure how to edit and correct spelling errors on a post.
That is such a terrible, terrible outcome for you from using Laser Genesis. I am so sorry to hear it. A skin clinic has recommended it for me as a way to make my skin look more youthful. Hah!
Never! After reading your experiences with Laser Genesis, it is not worth the risk. I just wonder why some people have a great result and others suffers permanent damage. There needs to be more research into this.
The only thing you could consider is a fat transfer using your own fat. I have many friends who have had this done and it works, but beware - if you have any ultrasound or radiotherapy treatments like Ultherapy or Thermage, it will MELT all that fat and you will look gaunt and haggard! I have seen plenty of evidence of this happening.
Another suggestion is to go and look also at Reviv.com serums. I have been using them for a few weeks and on mature skin the results are significant – really good. You can start with a very cheap sample pack and see how you go. Buy two as there is enough in there to notice a difference if it is going to work for you.
Good luck on your journey.
I actually did have some thermage done to my face years ago and it didn't do any damage. The lasers were much hotter than the thermage. I can't get fat transfer, it cost like $4 to 5,000 and I've heard that it can come out really funky. I plan to do another chemical peel soon. What the funny thing is is that they tell you that it's going to make your pores smaller, hahaha big joke. My pores are huge now all over my face they stand out like a sore thumb all over my cheeks and nose and I never ever had anything that bad. It's just game over for me. I have to just get on with life and take it from here. Love me or leave me.
I have the same thing from 3 laser genesis and ipl treatments that I had 5 years ago. I have done every treatment you can imagine and have spent more than 50k and that is without a facelift because I am scared. My face deflated like a balloon. I feel like it is half the size that it was before with all of the extra skin and weird smile lines. My mouth turn downward because all of the fat in my face melted away. I hate getting fillers because I look weird and not by myself. Getting that treatment done was the worse decision of my life. My skin was fine. I did it because I am a red head and have freckles
I wish there was an edit button because I completely forgot to check for errors before I saved that comment above. Sorry for the typos I was saying if I get too thin, the damage is more apparent.
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